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Warning: Microsoft Security Essentials installer zaps Automatic Updates setting
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| Microsoft frequently draws the ire of hapless
| users when it incapacitates unsuspecting
| customers' PCs with bad security updates.
| Just a few months ago, for example, security
| bulletin MS10-015 offered a patch that
| automatically turned some Windows XP PCs into
| big blue-screen bricks -- no user
| intervention required. Microsoft also has a
| nasty habit of pushing all sorts of patches
| down the Automatic Updates chute, even when
| the update could hardly be termed "critical."
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http://www.infoworld.com/t/anti-virus/warning-microsoft-security-essentials-installer-zaps-automatic-updates-setting-804
A Deliberate Omission
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| Hello, I'd like to find some documentation on
| your UberSecuR(TM) Suite of Identity
| Authorization tools for Ubersoft Webserver.
|
| Oh, we don't provide any documentation for
| that.
|
| You don't provide any documentation at all?
|
| We prefer to force our customers to pay
| overpriced consulting fees
| whenever they run into a problem.
|
| That's very unethical.
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http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2010/05/deliberate-omission
Recent:
Botnets to go
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| Security services provider Finjan has released a report from its Malicious
| Code Research Center analysing a trading platform for botnets. According to
| the report, the underground trade in infected computers offers a
| comprehensive menu of botnets at locations all around the world. Some Far
| Eastern networks can be had for a mere $5 a thousand PCs.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/140687/from/rss09
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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