Sophos reported that one Vista-affecting baddy, the Stratio-Zip worm, overtook Netsky-P as the most widely circulated piece of malware, accounting for one-third of the total threats reported.
Following Stratio-Zip by a long way is Netsky-P, which is then followed by Bagle-Zip. Zafi-B is in fourth place, followed by Netsky-D, Nyxem-D and MyDoom-O. Eighth place goes to Mytob-C, then Sality-AA and Zafi-D is in tenth.
Carolyn Kepcher, who helped Donald Trump fire corporate wannabes on "The Apprentice" television show, took a new role on Tuesday -- helping Microsoft Corp. find the best small-business idea in America.
"It takes a big idea to create a big business," Kepcher said. "And I've seen some ideas before."
The winner of the Redmond, Washington-based company's "Ultimate Challenge" contest will get $100,000 in seed money, a storefront or other space in Manhattan for a year rent-free, and software to help get their business started.
For the first time in five years, Microsoft is finally unveiling a new system for operating personal computers. Now the company must persuade PC buyers that the launch really matters to them.
Beginning Thursday, businesses that buy Windows licenses in bulk have first crack at the new operating system, called Vista. Consumers can get Vista on home PCs beginning Jan. 30.
It is an understandable yet curious characteristic of the information security space that the current 'big thing' relates not to the latest big threat, but to the newest threat.
Microsoft gave its critics more ammunition this week as download problems struck its
Xbox 360 Live service, grinding portions of the service to a halt yet still charging users for downloads they never received.
On Wednesday, Microsoft launched a new Xbox service that lets users of Xbox 360 Live download TV shows and films, many in high definition. The service boasts content from Warner Brothers, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Turner Broadcasting, Paramount, MTV, and CBS, with more content to be released weekly.
Microsoft big man Steve Ballmer talks up the Xbox?s head start over the PS3 as we preview the best new 360 games
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has claimed the PS3?s delayed launch means the Xbox 360 is odds-on to become the biggest-selling next generation console.
An assortment of new security features in Windows Vista will help many consumers become "secure enough," but businesses are unlikely to abandon their current levels of additional, backup security if they adopt the new operating system, some experts say.
As you know, all of the previous Windows operating systems come with a backup utility to allow you to back up all the files on your hard disk. So too does Windows Vista. However, in addition to its standard backup utility, Windows Vista also comes with a hard disk imaging utility, called Complete PC Backup.
This utility can create an image file that contains the complete contents and structure of a hard disk. If you've ever used Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, then you have a good idea of what Windows Vista's Complete PC Backup imaging utility is all about.
Let's get one thing clear at the start: the Zune is a beautiful music player and the entire ecosystem trumps anything devised by a PlaysforSure licensee. But Microsoft isn't satisfied with showing up its own partners; it wants a piece of Apple pie.
I really couldn't believe the tip a reader sent in earlier this month that Microsoft's Zune MP3 player would be incompatible with Windows Vista.
I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zune DRM were not going to be compatible. (According to this Knowledge Base article, Zune supports Windows Media Player 10's DRM, but not WMP 11's. And "Zune software and devices only play protected music files from Zune Marketplace.") That was bad enough.
