Posts Tagged microsoft

06
Mar

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft urged not to censor search (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.


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03
Mar

Panda Antivirus Pro 2009 Now Supports Windows 7 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Panda Security launches beta version of its security solution compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system


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01
Mar

Zero-day exploits take fun out of functionality (Government Computer News)

Last week, researchers at Symantec Corp. identified malicious code in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets that exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in the application. Opening the malicious spreadsheet drops a Trojan onto the system.


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01
Mar

New malware attack hits Excel — on PC and Mac (Yahoo! Tech Advisors)

A new Trojan horse attack is making the rounds, and this one impacts Microsoft Excel files. But there’s a twist: Both Windows PCs and Macs running Excel are at risk of infection . The attack surfaced early last week but has been gaining steam ever since.


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27
Feb

Napera N24 Offers Turnkey NAC For SMBs (InformationWeek)

Appliance provides a range of security features for Microsoft nets, but lacks in-depth reporting.


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27
Feb

Microsoft cuts contractor pay (InfoWorld)

In an effort to reduce costs, Microsoft is cutting current contractor pay by 10 percent and future contractor pay by 15 percent. “We held discussions with some of the impacted agencies and settled on the 10 percent reduction based on the economic climate and the need to achieve greater cost reductions,” Microsoft said in a statement. [ InfoWorld’s Eric Knorr recommends companies  use …


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24
Feb

Nice economic stimulus: free antivirus (The Buffalo News)

Using Windows has traditionally required paying a tax of sorts. Not to Microsoft but to the vendor of the antivirus program you install to protect your PC


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20
Feb

Flight problems (Computer Active)

QI use the FSNavigator multiplayer add-on with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. Before changing to Talk Talk broadband and using a Smart AX MT882 modem, I would close down Zonealarm. This new modem has a built-in firewall that cannot be turned off.


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