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• Malware suspected of Black out in Windows Seven

  
  Tech Mania — Authority: 133
  Reports say that some Windows users are confronted by a totally black screen after they log on to their system.Initially it was thought that Microsoft’s own security update could have caused the problem but that has now been ruled out.The software firm that suggested the security update was the problem has ...
  2 days ago

• MS-DEFCON 2: Six more Security Bulletins

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  Microsoft just announced its payload for December Black Tuesday. I just love the new graph they’re publishing every month. Sure looks impressive, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, I don’t see how it gives Microsoft’s customers any useful information.Far better, as usual, is the SANS Internet Storm Center summary. ...
  2 days ago

• BitLocker broken, sorta

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  BitLocker is often mentioned as one of the (few) reasons for spending the extra money for Windows 7 Ultimate. BitLocker encrypts the whole drive using a very sophisticated and hard-to-crack technique. The most common use: laptop owners with very sensitive data on their hard drives use BitLocker to make sure that the ...
  5 days ago

• Six Security Bulletins coming

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  As part of its regular pre-announcement series, MS has said that it will release six Security Bulletins next Tuesday, covering twelve separately identified security holes.A couple of interesting notes.We want to make customers aware that we will be addressing the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 977981 in ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Black Screen of Death’ hits Windows 7

  
  Geek With Laptop — Authority: 588
  Reports are circulating on Internet forums about problems some Windows 7 users are having when they log on to their system, basically they are faced with a black screen and a system crash. Initially Microsoft Windows patches were suspected, after Software firm Prevx said that the November update could be responsible. ...
  1 week ago

• Black and Blue? :-)

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  Microsoft, which had previously admitted that its Vista operating system was still suseptible to remotely-triggered “Blue Screen of Death” attacks ( 1 ), said Monday that it is investigating reports that its latest security updates are causing some serious problems for certain users. The problem has been called ...
  1 week ago

• MS-DEFCON 4: The coast is clear, apply all patches now

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  With the “black screen” scare out of the way, it looks like we’re good to go on the November Black Tuesday patches.Now’s a good time to get caught up on all outstanding patches. The usual admonitions apply. Here’s what I recommend:Use Microsoft Update, reboot when the patching is done, then try Microsoft ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft says “black screens” not caused by November patches

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  Looks like there’s a resolution to the Prevx accusation that I talked about a couple of days ago.Paul Thurrott says:Microsoft completed its investigation into the so-called “Black Screen of Death” that was widely reported Monday and Tuesday and has found that it is completely bogus. According to the software ...
  1 week ago

• Black screens caused by November patches?

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  This may or may not be a Big Deal. It’s still too early to tell.According to Prevx, a company that makes antimalware programs, something in the last set of Black Tuesday patches is causing some PCs to show a “black screen of death” – which Prevx describes thusly:After starting your Windows 7, Vista, XP, NT, ...
  1 week ago

• Windows 7 crasher in the wild

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  SANS Internet Storm Center reports that a guy by the name of Laurent Gaffie has posted a code sample that crashes Windows 7. The press has picked it up and branded it a “0day attack” which is literally true, but there’s much less there than meets the eye.At least at this point, the 0day can [...]
  4 weeks ago

• MS09-065 causing problems

  
  AskWoody.com — Authority: 126
  Aren’t you glad you took my advice and didn’t install this month’s bunch of Black Tuesday patches?I’m hearing at least two separate sets of screams about MS09-065/KB 969947. One group of people say that the patch freezes their PCs on boot. (Susan Bradley posts a fix for that problem in the linked thread.) The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Darwin Streamer Server – Update to Compile in VS2008-Windows by noknok

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 172
  Complete Patches to Enable Darwin Streaming Server 6.0.3 to compile in V2008 and run on Windows Vista/2008 Server. ———————————————————– Darwin Streaming Server is an open source Streaming Server published by Apple Computer… (Budget: $250-750, Jobs: C/C++, Cocoa, MacOS, ...
  4 weeks ago

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