No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server
Two months after acknowledging a serious data corruption bug exists in Windows Home Server, Microsoft has admitted it still has no fix.
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27.2.2008 Windows 7 Data Corruption
Microsoft warned that testers of Windows 7 could come across data-corruption issues on various machines including computers from Lenovo and HP.
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31.3.2009 Windows 7 Possible 'Bug' Discovered
As Windows 7 is getting closer to its launch day, more and more eyes are turning towards it. Compatibility, security or stability issues are hunted down by Microsoft and testers around the world, so that none slips in the final version.
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6.8.2009 Windows 7 Search for Data Anywhere It Lives
Windows 7 has long evolved past its precursor, Windows Vista. One key aspect of this evolution is the operating system's ability to stretch Windows Explorer well beyond the limitations of a local machine, or even a local network.
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24.3.2009 Windows 7 RC' i first bug is a doozy
The first documented bug in the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is a doozy.
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8.5.2009 Windows 7 RTM contains a rather nasty chkdsk bug
Windows 7 RTM, which will be distributed to MSDN/TechNet and technical beta testers tomorrow, contains a nasty memory leak when the chkdsk command is initiated.
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5.8.2009 Trojan poses as Windows screen to collect data
Symantec has warned of a Trojan that has posed as a Windows activation program and duped users into entering credit card information.
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7.5.2007 Critical Bug In Legacy Windows Media Players
Proof-of-concept code that exploits a critical bug in Windows Media Player has gone public, Microsoft Corp. warned users late Thursday.
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12.12.2006 Windows Mail bug may expose Vista users
A possible security vulnerability in Windows Mail could let attackers run applications on PCs running Vista.
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24.3.2007 Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early
The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows.
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15.4.2008 Windows Vista Genuine Validation Fails Due to Incorrect BIOS Data
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this post in his blog. Even if the operating system was activated properly.
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27.6.2007 Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harvesting User Data for Microsoft
There is a constant flow of communication between Windows Vista and Microsoft. A collection of features and services across Microsoft's latest desktop operating system exchange data with locations on the Internet, including those belonging to the Redmond company.
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19.8.2007 50 ways to lose your data
Disk drives are marvelous devices. Especially when they go “clunk” and stop working. I’m not kidding: at least you know your data is hosed. I prefer that to the silent data corruption you don’t find out about until you can’t access a file or your OS starts freezing. Or a RAID rebuild fails.
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8.8.2007 Inside a Microsoft data center
It takes mucho computes and terabytes to create the 3D models used in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth online mapping service. So how do they cram 5,000 cores and 10,000 terabytes - 10 petabytes - of storage into 3 40 ft. shipping containers?
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25.3.2009 Google Gmail had a serious bug, claim
Google has managed to keep the lid on a serious bug in Gmail that had enabled hackers to take over accounts, read the contents and use them to send spam, since the service started.
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16.11.2005 Microsoft warns on serious IE security bug
Wanted to let you know that today we saw another public posting around a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This one is different than the crash bug I wrote about earlier. The public posting speaks about createTextRange() and a way that this could be utilized to get code to run when visiting a specially crafted Web page.
We?re still investigating, but we have confirmed this vulnerability and I am writing a Microsoft Security Advisory on this. But we wanted to make sure customers knew we were aware of this and we will address it in a security update.
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24.3.2006 I/O Data Vista Approved Tuners Announced
This week I/O Data is launching its new line of TV tuners -- the company is ready to set the mark for Vista friendly video hardware.
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1.1.2007 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 Analyzing 3 months of Vista reliability data
A Windows Vista feature which I make use of regularly is the Reliability Monitor. While being far from an ideal metric for measuring reliability, it does offer users a simple way to tell if their system is behaving or misbehaving.
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25.3.2008 Microsoft 2008: From Desktop to Data Center
Year In Review. Microsoft had a pretty good year, despite the fourth quarter's global economic crisis.
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30.12.2008 Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta
On September 29, 2009, Microsoft released the beta version of the third generation of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), previously called “DPM v3” or “Zinger”.
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30.9.2009 Microsoft fixes major bug in Windows Vista RTM build, now back on track
Paul Thurrott reports: ... an unexpectedly buggy pre-RTM build of Windows Vista that surprised the company.
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23.10.2006 Hackers publish code for critical IE bug
Security experts are warning Internet users to be careful where they click, thanks to a nasty unpatched bug in the way Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser handles the JavaScript computer language. The bug is of particular concern because security researchers in the U.K. have now published "proof of concept" code showing how hackers could exploit the problem and possibly take over a Windows system.
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22.11.2005 New Zero-Day Bug Crashes Internet Explorer
Because the vulnerability can be exploited by a single malicious HTML tag, IE could be brought to its knees if its user simply surfed to a nasty Web site.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser crashes when attacked through a new unpatched vulnerability, security companies warned Friday.
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18.3.2006 Microsoft Launches IE7 Bug Database
Testers will need a Passport account to access the Internet Explorer Feedback site.
Microsoft Corp. has launched a public bug database for Internet Explorer 7, which is currently in beta.
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28.3.2006 Microsoft tests fix for IE bug as exploits appear
A recently identified Internet Explorer security hole is now being exploited and Microsoft hopes to include a fix for it in its April 11 patch or maybe even earlier, according to a posting on a Microsoft blog. So far, attacks are limited in scope, Stephen Toulouse, head of Microsoft's Security Response Center, wrote on the center's blog on Saturday.
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28.9.2006 Microsoft's Responce to "2nd IE7 bug"
MSRC BLOG: This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment and let people know some information about a new public report about a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer we’ve received today.
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27.10.2006 States rush to remove data on residents from websites
States across the USA are furiously removing sensitive data from official websites.
The task highlights challenges facing states with sites full of personal information on residents, from Social Security numbers to bank account numbers.
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24.4.2006 Napping data centers could cut energy use by 75%
Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced a plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume by putting idle servers to sleep when they’re not in use.
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8.3.2009 Is Vista Really Bug-Plagued as the NY Times Claims?
Last week's discovery of a non-critical bug affecting the old 32-bit Windows API, which BetaNews reported on at the time, was picked up by The New York Times this morning, although its severity was substantially elevated in the process.
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27.12.2006No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server
Two months after acknowledging a serious data corruption bug exists in Windows Home Server, Microsoft has admitted it still has no fix. The latest
update to its knowledgebase entry essentially says, "
still workin' on
it". The bug relates to a little known, but frequently used, method of writing hidden data to NTFS file systems, which is incompatible with the
disk pooling strategy used in Home Server.
The software giant first acknowledged the problem on December 21 last year, providing a list of
programs that could cause data on a Windows Home Server to become corrupted, including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery,
OneNote 2007, OneNote 2003, Outlook 2007, Money 2007, SyncToy 2.0 beta, QuickBooks and uTorrent.
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27.02.2008Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data
Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's
latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire. The problem, can
easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account
and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one.
The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.
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12.10.2009Updated: Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data
Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's
latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire. The problem, can
easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account
and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one.
The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.
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13.10.2009Windows Home Server bug corrupts iTunes, Zune, lots of other apps
Engadget: Uh-oh -- it looks like the nasty
Windows Home Server bug that corrupts data affects quite a few more apps than Microsoft initially let on. The company's just
updated the WHS support note to include reports of data corruption when using iTunes, the Zune software, WinAmp, WMP 11, Photoshop, and a host of
other applications -- and the problem's expanded in scope as well, now affecting files saved to the server in addition to files edited on the server.
That basically makes WHS useless as of right now -- if you can't trust your data on it, there's no point -- so let's hope there's a fix on the
way.
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21.02.2008Leopard update fixes Finder data loss bug
Less than three weeks after its launch, the first update to Mac OS X Leopard, version 10.5.1, has arrived, bringing with it a number of bug fixes and
security updates...
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16.11.2007Microsoft addresses data corruption with WHS Power Pack beta
Microsoft has released a public beta of the first Windows Home Server update in order to show the world it has finally fixed an embarrassing data
corruption bug it discovered six months ago and has been trying to correct since...
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11.06.2008Report: Serious Bug Delays Vista RTM
At least two news outlets are
citing sources claiming the
final version of Windows Vista
has been delayed at least a
week due to a bug which could
crash a system that was
upgraded from Windows XP...
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26.10.2006Licensing bug brings down VMware ESX data clusters
Could everyone's VMware licenses really have expired on August 12? That's the question hundreds of major data centers found themselves asking, right
after midnight when they realized they weren't rebooting or resuming...
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14.08.2008Eight-year-old Windows name resolution exploit re-emerges
Microsoft acknowledged the discovery of an exploitable bug in the way one of its services handles domain name resolution -- a bug it thought it fixed
in 1999..
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04.12.2007Engineering Windows 7: What we do with a bug report?
Steven Sinofsky: This has been a busy couple of days for a few of us on the team as we had a report of a bug in Windows 7. The specifics of the issue
are probably not as important as a discussion over how we will manage these types of situations down the road and so it seems like a good time to
provide some context and illustrate our process, using this recent example...
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10.08.2009Windows 7 RTM contains a rather nasty chkdsk bug
Windows 7 RTM, which will be distributed to MSDN/TechNet and technical beta testers tomorrow, contains a nasty memory leak when the chkdsk command is
initiated. The bug occurs when the CHKDSK /R command is initiated on a non-system volume. Memory usage of the chkdsk.exe process soars until the
system is using over 90% physical memory. In some cases this will cause the system to become unresponsive and unstable. Some are calling the bug a
"show stopper", whilst others (Randall Kennedy) claim it could derail the Windows 7 launch. It's worth noting that Kennedy claimed in November
2008 that Microsoft had delayed the Windows 7 beta to early 2009, even though company officials always stated this was the case.
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05.08.2009Microsoft promises data corruption fix in final Home Server Power Pack
7 months of beta testing later, Microsoft is finally ready to say it has squashed the data corruption bug that has plagued Windows Home Server since
its launch last year, releasing the final build of Power Pack 1 to existing customers and OEMs...
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22.07.2008Windows Home Server Power Pack to enter public beta after a data bug
It's one of Microsoft's most innovative products, creating a new market for consumer level server management. But Windows Home Server has recently
suffered a few setbacks -- problems which may very well be addressed by a forthcoming beta...
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23.05.2008Windows Home Server NTFS Compression Bug Fixed
WB: Note that this bugfix is unrelated to the other major
data
corruption bug found
here.
The Windows Home
Server team has solved a software bug that may affect files that are compressed using Advanced Attributes (NTFS compression). NTFS compression can
be enabled on an individual file, folder or at the hard drive level and is sometimes enabled by users to save disk space on a home computer. More
information on the bug and a link to download the fix at
KB950190.
You can visit the Windows Home Server Community Forums if you want to ask questions or discuss this issue, by accessing this
thread.
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08.05.2008iPhone password revealing bug
A user on Twitter has posted a message about a potentially nasty bug found on the iPhone and iPod touch firmware. This user, rpetrich, discovered the
exploit, which can reveal users passwords on the devices, according to ModMyi.com. The bug only works in certain scenarios and doesn't pose a
risk to users everywhere, unless somebody within arm reach gets a hold of your iPhone or iPod touch. The bug can be exploited in almost every
available application that stores passwords; this includes your saved email account passwords. The bug can reveal all characters, except the very
first character in the password field.
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14.09.2009Browser users urged to patch
up
[b]Windows users are being
warned about a bug that lets
attackers take over a PC via
the Internet Explorer
browser.[/b]
The
bug made possible webpages
that can compromise a PC
without a user spotting the
attack, Microsoft
warned.
Code to
exploit the bug was
circulating online which led
Microsoft to label the bug
"critical" and said users
should apply a patch
immediately.
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14.12.2005Researchers Publish Code for
Critical IE Bug
Bug involves the way the
Microsoft browser handles
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22.11.2005Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows
Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. Enthusiast Chris Holmes claims that many users have started experiencing random
crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer. Some have gone to the
extent of reinstalling the beta. Rafael has discovered that the fault arises from the Software Quality Management (SQM) Client which is a part of the
Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).
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20.01.2009Microsoft struggles to fix data corruption bug in Windows Home Server
Microsoft still has not issued a fix for a problem within Windows Home Server that will leave some files corrupted if edited on a networked PC and
saved to the home server...
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28.02.2008Seagate confronts an overflow of bricked hard drives
Faced with a firmware bug fix that is making many of its hard disk drives even harder -- to read, that is -- Seagate is offering a firmware upgrade
and free data recovery services if users still cannot read their data...
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