Microsoft's advice on disabling Windows' "Autorun" feature is flawed, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) said Wednesday, and leaves users who rely on its guidelines to protect their PCs against the fast-spreading Downadup worm open to attack.
In an alert issued Monday , US-CERT said Microsoft's instructions on turning off Autorun are "not fully effective" and "could be considered a vulnerability."
According to a source inside Microsoft, over 25 percent of Vista installations in the US at the end of last year were 64-bit. There were several major drivers for the switch to 64-bit, most related to cheap DDR2 DRAM.
In 2008 the Australian hunger for Xbox LIVE online membership grew by 88 percent, and though it is only a small sector of the global economy (half a million of the global 28 million Xbox 360’s sold), Australia houses a hunger for getting communal online.
According to statistics gathered by Microsoft, more than 50 percent of the 500,000 Xbox 360’s in the country are hooked up to Xbox LIVE. And along with playing online multiplayer games, they are chatting, exchanging photos and downloading 4.2 million items from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Windows 7 testers won’t be able to install Microsoft’s near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 — a limitation Microsoft is acknowledging and saying is by design.
The IE 8 RC is expected to be downloadable by the public any day now. Earlier this month, Microsoft made available to the public the (only expected) public beta of Windows 7.
The European Commission accused Microsoft Corp. on Friday of stymieing competition by bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser with Windows systems, opening a new round in their expensive, years-long battle.
The executive arm of the European Union said it had reached the preliminary view that the company had prevented rival browsers from competing and had infringed EU rules on abuse of dominant position.
Microsoft Corp. today issued its first patch for the just-released Windows 7 beta, but it passed on plugging a hole in an important file-sharing protocol that it fixed in older versions of the operating system.
Earlier today, Windows Update, Microsoft's primary update service, began delivering the first patch to Windows 7 since the company struggled to launch the public beta last Friday. The update fixes a flaw that shaves several seconds of audio from any MP3 file that's edited, including files modified automatically as users connect to the Internet.
Microsoft has revealed that this month’s sole security update is a fix for three problems in Windows’ filesharing system. The firm has also suggested blocking two specific ports as a secondary method of minimising the problem.
Microsoft was forced to temporarily suspend downloads of the beta of its Windows 7 operating system late Friday after its website collapsed under the strain of what it called, 'high demand'.
Here's a new way to get Microsoft to pay attention to you: Slip a brief message into the malicious Trojan horse program you just wrote. That's what an unnamed Russian hacker did recently with a variation of Win32/Zlob, a Trojan program victims are being tricked into installing on their computers.
The original Xbox lasted only four years in the market before its next-gen sibling arrived, but it looks like the Xbox 360 is going to be around a bit longer than that. At least according to Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices president Robbie Bach, who claims the company will focus on improving the Xbox’s games and features rather than rushing to introduce a new model.
