Download Windows 7 Antivirus from AVG, Kaspersky and Symantec
Just as it was the case with Windows Vista, the mitigations introduced by Microsoft alone in Windows 7 are not sufficient to bulletproof the operating system on their own.
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15.1.2009 Symantec tool cleans up Windows XP SP3 registry corruption
Symantec Thursday released a free tool that wipes spurious entries from Windows' registry that had crippled some PCs running the company's security software after they were upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Vista SP1.
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9.6.2008 Symantec: Vista UAC Is Still Too Chatty
In positioning itself to provide aftermarket applications for Microsoft's Vista operating system, anti-virus market leader Symantec is highlighting some shortcomings it believes to exist in the new platform's own security tools.
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15.1.2007 Windows XP Retirement a Non-Issue for Corporate Customers
In a week’s time, Windows XP will no longer be available in most retail outlets, but corporate users need not fret because they can still get the Microsoft operating system and, until 2014, the security patches to fix any vulnerabilities.
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26.6.2008 88% of corporate PCs sport minimum Windows 7 hardware
A new study conducted by Softchoice has found that 88 percent of corporate PCs would currently be able to run Windows 7, compared to the 50 percent that could run Windows Vista prior to its release.
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19.10.2009 Symantec Vista White Paper Links to PatchGuard Crack
In a curious decision on the part of a security software company, a white paper released today on the Web site of Symantec - whose opinions of Microsoft's implementation of PatchGuard protection on 64-bit Windows Vista are well known - contains the address of an independent research paper which includes a demonstration of defeating PatchGuard, complete with source code, in an early Vista beta.
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1.3.2007 Hackers steal government, corporate data
Hackers stole information from the Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday.
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17.7.2007 Nine of 10 corporate PCs can run Win 7
According to a survey carried out by Softchoice, 88% of corporate PCs in the US are capable of running Windows 7.
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19.10.2009 Half Of Corporate PCs Can't Run Vista, Researcher Says
About half of corporate PCs are not equipped to run all the features of Windows Vista, and companies should plan to gradually deploy the upcoming operating system through new computers, rather than take the more expensive alternative of buying new hardware for older machines, a research firm said Monday.
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10.4.2006 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008Symantec Anti-Virus Tool Puts
Server Passwords in Danger
Symantec Corp. is
investigating a report of a
security hole in a version of
its corporate anti-virus
product that could expose
sensitive username and
password information, the
company
acknowledged.
The reported security hole
affects Symantec Anti Virus
Corporate Edition Version 9
and could allow an attacker or
nonprivileged user to obtain
sensitive server log-in
information. Details of the
vulnerability were posted on
the Bugtraq mailing list
Wednesday.
The
vulnerability affects
organizations that have
deployed an internal
LiveUpdate server, which
distributes anti-virus
definition updates to Symantec
software clients on a
corporate network...
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06.09.2005Symantec Glitch Exposes Server Logins
Symantec acknowledged on Friday that a vulnerability in a corporate version of its antivirus software could expose server username and password information. In order to expose the sensitive data, a user would have to be running a LiveUpdate server...
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02.09.2005Symantec and McAfee in ‘arms race' in PC security market
Both Symantec and McAfee are in an 'Arms Race' in the PC security market according to a report by The New York Times. McAfee has been trying
to dethrone Symantec, which currently holds 52% of the consumer market share compared to McAfee's 18% market share. This market share varies when
you include corporate and business use. Unfortunately, for McAfee, they've been facing a decade of legal and accounting problems that left it in
poor competitive shape, and employee morale low. Things aren't any better in the revenue department. Symantec made $1.8 billion in revenue
last year, compared to $624 million in revenue for McAfee. However, McAfee is fighting back.
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07.07.2009Symantec Patches Antivirus App
Flaw found in corporate
software could allow
unauthorized access to a
company's servers...
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06.09.2005Symantec says Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
Symantec Corp. declared its
compensation offer for Chinese
users who saw their computers
damaged by a bad software
update a success Sunday, but
declined to say how many users
had accepted the deal.
Symantec ran into trouble
May 18, when the company
issued a faulty software
update for its Norton
antivirus software that
wrongly identified two system
files in the Simplified
Chinese edition of Windows XP
as malware, and quarantined
them. That blunder rendered an
estimated 50,000 Chinese PCs
unusable, Symantec said.
The incident provoked an
angry outcry from Chinese
users, who demanded
compensation for the damage
wrought on their systems by
Symantec. At least two users
filed lawsuits against
Symantec over damage done to
their PCs. ..
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16.07.2007Symantec Sues Microsoft
It was bound to happen sooner
or later but security firm
Symantec is taking legal
action against Microsoft
accusing it of misusing its
technology the
BBC
reports.
Symantec is angry and
alleges that Microsoft
improperly used Symantec's
data storage techniques in its
own software. Symantec wants
compensation, saying the
alleged infringement amounts
to misappropriation of its
trade secrets.
The disagreement is based on
Symantec's Volume Manager
software, which allows
operating systems to store and
handle large amounts of
data.
Symantec
believes Microsoft has
"deliberately and
surreptitiously
misappropriated" the
technology "and thereby
convinced the US government to
issue patents to Microsoft
based on technologies invented
by Symantec".
Symantec is mostly known for
its corporate and home
anti-virus software that is
used widely across the
world.
Microsoft describes the
accusation as unfounded and
says it has tried
unsuccessfully to resolve the
issue.
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20.05.2006Symantec, Intel Working on Secure Chips
Security firm Symantec has
joined up with chip giant
Intel to research and develop
security solutions built
directly into the hardware
used by computers. Symantec
software would interact
directly with the Intel chips
at the hardware level, rather
than relying on an operating
system like Windows...
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15.08.2007Yahoo, Symantec Partner on Net
Security
Yahoo and Symantec announced a
partnership on Tuesday.
Several Yahoo services would
be enhanced with online
versions of Symantec products,
and a co-branded version of
Norton Internet Security will
be offered...
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25.07.2006Symantec: Windows Update Downloader Can Spread Malware
Researchers at Symantec have
published a report
highlighting how the
Background Intelligent
Transfer Service (BITS) -- a
main component of Windows
Update -- is being used by
Trojans to download malware
that bypasses firewalls and
security controls...
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15.05.2007Microsoft, Symantec settle Windows dispute
After nearly two years of litigation, Microsoft Corp. and Symantec Corp. have settled a dispute over data-storage technologies in Microsoft
products.
The suit, filed by Symantec in May 2006, alleged that Microsoft wrongly used Symantec's technology in programs including the
Windows Vista operating system. Symantec had acquired the technology in its purchase of storage company Veritas in 2005.
The companies
declined to disclose financial terms and other details of the settlement. Symantec and Microsoft on Tuesday requested to dismiss the suit in U.S.
District Court in Seattle.
Symantec's original suit, filed before Windows Vista's release, sought an injunction to "preclude the
further development, sale or distribution" of Windows Vista until the disputed technology was removed.
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03.04.2008Symantec: Windows Vista less
Secure than XP
According to Symantec, Windows
Vista is very likely to be
less secure than Windows XP by
the time it comes out.
Symantec has supposedly
already found many security
flaws in Windows Vista's
networking code. Symantec also
says Vista's new code is what
is problematic.
According to the Symantec
report, "Microsoft has
removed a large body of tried
and tested code and replaced
it with freshly written code,
complete with new corner cases
and defects. This may provide
for a more stable networking
stack in the long term, but
stability will suffer in the
short term."
This is obviously surprising
for Microsoft employees, who
have declared so many times
that Vista would be more
secure than XP. Microsoft
answered by a simple
explanation that the software
is still in beta stage and
that numerous improvements
would be made until it comes
out.
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18.07.2006Symantec: Enterprise customers are "not yet comfortable with Vista"
In the latest disappointing turn for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, a Symantec executive said Monday that only a small percentage of the
security software company's large enterprise customers have upgraded their corporate PCs to Vista.
"For the most part, we're
not seeing it," said Enrique Salem, Symantec's chief operating officer, in an interview. Salem said most of Symantec's enterprise customers
continue to run their systems on the older Windows XP operating system because "they're not yet comfortable with Vista."
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20.05.2008Symantec to Purchase Bindview
Symantec on Monday said it had
agreed to purchase Bindview, a
maker of security software for
businesses that focuses on
compliance of regulations.
Symantec will pay $209 million
in the all cash deal, which is
expected to close early next
year. The acquisition follows
Symantec's purchase of Sygate
and anti-phishing firm
WholeSecurity...
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03.10.2005Norton smartphone suite to ship next week
Next week, Symantec
Corp. will broaden its mobile
security product line by
shipping new products designed
for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
Mobile devices.
The software will come in
two versions: a consumer
product called Norton Mobile
Security for Smartphones and
Symantec Mobile Security 5.0,
designed for enterprise users.
Both versions will be
available May 29, a company
spokesman said Monday.
Symantec already sells a
suite for phones based on the
Symbian operating system, as
well as antivirus software for
Windows Mobile but these new
products will support a much
broader range of security
features, Symantec said. ..
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22.05.2007Symantec, Adobe Complain Over
Vista
It's no surprise that
Symantec and Adobe are wary of
Microsoft bundling its own
security software and
electronic document format in
Windows Vista, but the
companies had yet to lodge
official complaints about the
operating system until now...
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22.09.2006Symantec and Microsoft settle suit over Vista storage technology
Symantec sued Microsoft almost 2 years ago for violating licensing terms on its patented technology in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The suit
has finally come to an apparently amicable settlement...
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04.04.2008Symantec Sues Microsoft Over
Vista
Symantec sued Microsoft
Thursday, accusing the company
of infringing on its patented
technologies in Windows Vista
and Longhorn Server. The suit
asks for damages, as well as
an injunction that would halt
the sale of both operating
systems...
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19.05.2006Symantec: Change Your Router Password
Those who have not changed the
default passwords on their
home routers may be putting
themselves at risk of attack,
researchers at Indiana
University and Symantec are
warning...
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16.02.2007Symantec Struggles to Separate 'Exploit' From 'Vulnerability'
A tremendous amount of
confusion has arisen in recent
days over whether security
firm Symantec actually
discovered a new vulnerability
in Microsoft Word three days
ago, or simply uncovered a new
exploit of an existing problem
that Microsoft already
acknowledged. In what appears
to be an effort at
backtracking, Symantec today
appears to be saying both
simultaneously...
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02.02.2007Symantec Found Using Rootkit
Feature
Symantec is cleaning up a
feature in Norton SystemWorks
that uses a rootkit-like
technique to hide a system
folder from Windows. The
technology works similar to
Sony BMG's controversial
rootkit DRM in the way it
masks files and makes them
invisible to the operating
system...
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