Jan 11
1. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition or avast! Home Edition (anti-virus): Block the problem before it starts.
2. HijackThis (cleaning/removing tool): This is a great tool for people who know how to use it and know what they are doing. There is a Web site that you can load your log file into and it will tell you what’s good or bad via a raiding system. Hijack This is a free anti-spyware program for computer experts. If you paid for HijackThis, you were either scammed or sold something else. HijackThis does not automatically remove bad things, you need to decide for yourself what is good or bad in the scan results.
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Jan 10
Microsoft Corp. today urged Windows Vista users to download a new security tool that automatically disables suspicious or malicious “gadgets,” the small applets that mimic the “widgets” popular on Mac OS X. Dubbed “Windows Sidebar Protection,” the 1MB download was added to Windows Update on Tuesday and classified as a “high-priority” update. Microsoft customers running Vista RTM — the initial version that launched in late 2006 to businesses and early 2007 to consumers — saw the update on the list starting Tuesday.
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Jan 08
Microsoft has issued a high-priority security update to fix a pair of “critical” flaws that expose Windows users to remote code execution attacks. The software giant’s first batch of patches for 2008 includes a fix for at least two vulnerabilities in TCP/IP processing. The bugs, rated critical for all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista, could be exploited by remote attackers to “take complete control of an affected system,” Microsoft warned in its MS08-001 bulletin.
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