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No more AutoRun

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Submitted by Ian Kelly on Fri, 11/02/2011 - 12:31
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In order to reduce the risk of Malware infections on Windows XP computers, Microsoft decided that as of 8th Feb 2011 a new security update would disable the automatic running of any disk put in your machine.

This is something which had already been in place for Windows 7, but they liked it so much they disabled it for everyone!

A small change for the better? Or yet another annoyance in a long line of M$ annoyances?

Computer Security Awareness

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Submitted by Ian Kelly on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:44
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Recently there have been a number of reported cases of people receiving telephone calls from agents claiming to be calling from or on behalf of Microsoft. They advise that you may have recently had some technical issue or virus infection on your computer (who hasn't!) and that they can help you remove it. They won't. They are just after your personal information!

Please be aware of variations of this scam and avoid giving any personal details to any caller you are unsure of.

Details of the Scam:

ActiveX plugged (....at long last)

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Submitted by Paul Gormley on Thu, 16/07/2009 - 08:54
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Microsoft's July patches appeared overnight, and range from 'critical' to 'important'. We've only waited a year to see an infamous ActiveX vulnerability plugged, so be relieved to see that a fix for that issue has been included, along with others that prevent remote code execution and could contribute to botnet infections and denial of service attacks.

All in all, this months patch tuesday has six patches for nine vulnerabilities.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx

(no) Patch Tuesday

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Submitted by Paul Gormley on Wed, 13/05/2009 - 09:52
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Microsoft must be too busy with the upcoming release of Windows 7 to care about Patch Tuesday, we've had some heavy patching thus far in 2009 but come what may and all has gone quiet over at fortress M$.....

The highlight of May's Patch Tuesday is the issue  of a fix for a zero-day vulnerability in PowerPoint, all versions, which with the aid of WSUS we should be patched by the end of today.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx

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