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Microsoft will Issue a Critical Patch Week of 12-13-09 for Windows 7 IE8

Microsoft will issue a security patch to address some vulnerabilities in Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8.

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Support Ends In July For XP SP2 and Win2K

Extended Support for Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 Server will finally end on July 13, 2010. After this day, Microsoft will no longer provide individual support or…

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Seven Anti-Virus Programs Fail Windows 7 Test

Virus Bulletin conducted it’s most recent tests in November and the results were made available this month. The security research company evaluated 43 antimalware products (product submission deadline was October…

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Windows 7 Black Screen Of Death (BSOD): Fix Update

Update: The fix I posted earlier to the Windows 7 Black Screen Of Death caused by the latest Microsoft security update definitely works as I’ve had a few readers contact…

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Windows 7 BSOD: ‘Black Screen Of Death’ Freeze And Potential Fix

Many windows users are familiar with the Blue Screen Of Death, but now we appear to have a new BSOD or even KSOD.  There are several reports that the latest…

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Microsoft Investigating into Windows 7 Zero-Day Threat

Last Wednesday, researcher Laurent Gaffié published on his blog information about a bug in the Server Message Block (SMB) that can be exploited to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The SMB protocol is generally used for sharing files, printers and serial ports on…

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A Closer Look at: Windows 7 Parental Controls

There is lots of nice features in Windows 7, and I recently came across the new and improved parental controls, I must say I was rather impressed. In Windows 7,…

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Which Security Program Is Best For Windows 7

I don’t know how, but all my PCs have simultaneously said that I have 12 days left before my free Kaspersky trial licences run out.  I was expecting this to happen one…

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Windows 7 to Get Security Patches on Tuesday

Microsoft has announced last Thursday on The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) that it’s going to release, via Windows Update, 13 security patches on the forthcoming Tuesday (October 13th). These patches will address 34…

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Microsoft Security Essentials: Hype or Reality?

Released today, Microsoft Security Essentials is a product that advertises itself as a free solution for “Virus, Spyware, And Malware Protection” by our favorite Corporate Giant, Microsoft. The product is…

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Windows 7: Which Protection Should I Use?

There are both positives and negatives to using antivirus programs. Many users will argue that it’s not worth the loss of performance to have constantly-running antivirus protection. However, anyone who…

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