IE8 ActiveX Improvements
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Vista
May 10, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:13 AM/EST
February 4, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008 11:18 AM/EST
Vista SP1 Goes to Manufacturing
Microsoft announced today, through the Windows Vista blog, that it has released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing. Users will not be able to download SP1 until mid-March, as the company is trying to make it available about...
August 14, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:30 PM/EST
Microsoft Releases Nine Security Updates for Windows, Office
Microsoft today released nine security bulletins and a series of product updates to address the issues in them. Six of the nine include critical vulnerabilities on at least some of the products they cover. Critical: MS07-042—Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core...
August 3, 2007
Friday, August 03, 2007 7:54 AM/EST
More on Driver Certificate Revocation
For more from Microsoft on when/how driver certificate revocation works, see the comment section on the blog on the Atsiv revocation. Sounds like the current architecture only allows for boot-time checks, and they're just speculating that checks with VeriSign could...
August 2, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:17 PM/EST
Microsoft Hits Back at Atsiv
My current column describes Atsiv, a tool for loading unsigned kernel code in Windows Vista x64. Perhaps I was the one who alerted Microsoft, but it responded tonight pretty strongly. As described by Scott Field, Windows Security Architect, in the...
Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:12 PM/EST
Orphaned Symantec Root Certificates
For my recent column on code signing I took a close look at the Trusted Root Certificates dialog on one of my Vista systems and noticed something odd. The selected certificate is one of two Symantec certificates. Three things are...
July 24, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:21 PM/EST
Microsoft: Thank You For Buying Pirated Vista
Microsoft announced in a blog entry "the largest bust of counterfeit software manufacturing or distribution ever." A lot of pirated Windows Vista was sold by the gang that got busted. The main point of the blog is to celebrate the...
June 14, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:28 PM/EST
More Dell Clarification
Dell still wasn't clear about this "Dell Uninstaller Utility" I mentioned in the follow up to my crapware column, so I asked for clarification. I searched on Dell's site again and didn't find any reference to an "uninstaller." Dell's statement...
May 18, 2007
Friday, May 18, 2007 3:03 PM/EST
Update To Excel Patch
Microsoft has issued a knowledge base article describing fixes they have made to the Windows Update detection logic for one of this month's updates. MS07-023 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution) fixed several bugs in Excel on...
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