Security Tab Fixer for Windows XP - Activate Security Tab Under File, Folder Property Menu
Unlike Windows Vista & Windows 7, Window XP do not show Security tab under file or folder properties dialogue box.
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28.6.2009 Think XP and Vista Are Security Disasters? Have You Looked at Tiger and Leopard Lately?
Do you think that Windows Vista and Windows XP are security disasters? Well, in all fairness, chances are that indeed you would think that.
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18.12.2007 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Critical Security Patches
The latest Critical security patches for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available from Microsoft.
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13.8.2008 Vista Growing to Match the Lack of Security of XP, Mac OS X and Linux
Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as the most secure Windows operating system available, ever since the debut of the Wow.
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15.8.2007 New Security Solutions Live in Time for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Vulnerabilities
October 14 was synonymous not only with the availability of a new release out of the Microsoft monthly patch cycle but also with the introductions of a couple of new security from the Redmond company: the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) and Exploitability Index.
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15.10.2008 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 Patch Security Release ISO Image Available
A DVD5 ISO image file containing all the security bulletins made available on November 10th, 2009 for all supported Windows platforms, is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center.
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13.11.2009 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 September 2008 Security Release ISO Image
Following the four security bulletins released on Patch Tuesday, September 9, 2008, Microsoft has bundled all the Windows updates into a single ISO image offered through the Download Center.
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10.9.2008 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Security Release ISO Image December 2008
On December 9, Microsoft made available for download the last bouquet of security updates for 2008. the company released no less than eight security bulletins, six of them Critical and two rated as Important.
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11.12.2008 Microsoft Windows Vista Security: Setting a New Standard for Security and Privacy Through Innovation and Collaboration
For more than 30 years, information and communications technologies have transformed the global economy and personal communications.
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17.9.2006 The First XP SP3 Security Vulnerability
The third and final service pack for Windows XP is not even out, and Microsoft is already hammering away at it plugging security soles.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft Windows XP Security Guide 2.2
The Windows XP Security Guide has been updated to provide specific recommendations about how to harden computers that run Windows XP with SP2 in three distinct environments.
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12.4.2006 Critical Security Patch for Windows XP Service Pack 3 Final
Windows XP SP3 was barely out the door, when Microsoft rushed to issue the first critical patch for the service pack. Concomitantly with the general
availability of the last service pack for XP, Microsoft dropped the first critical security update designed to patch Internet Explorer 7 running on XP SP3 RTM Build 5512.
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8.5.2008 Microsoft Security Advisory 927891 non security-Fix for Windows Installer
Ok this is the MSI fix (Windows Update Client 100%CPU issue) as discussed before here on Bink.nu. For best results also install the new update client . This client will be distributed worldwide in June through Microsoft/Windows Update and WSUS.
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23.5.2007 Vista and Security Bundling
Several reporters have asked me what the Windows OneCare Live widespread beta means to security software vendors, such as McAfee, Panda, Symantec or Trend Micro. What OneCare foreshadows is significant.
According to the release notes: "Windows OneCare will not be compatible with the Windows Vista operating system (formerly codenamed 'Longhorn') when that operating system is released."
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2.12.2005 Security researchers look beyond Vista
The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work.
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3.10.2007 Security Update for Windows Vista
A remote code execution security issue has been identified in the Graphics Rendering Engine that could allow an attacker to remotely compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.
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16.1.2006 Vista vs. Freeware Security Apps
The BBC's resident technology feature, Click, has released another (somewhat dumbed down yet informative) piece regarding Vista and how it will differ from the XP of today.
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10.9.2006 Security warnings over Windows Vista
Microsoft is coming under increasing fire over the security of its Windows software.
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3.10.2006 Microsoft Agrees to Changes in Vista Security
"Bowing to pressure from European antitrust regulators and rival security vendors, Microsoft has agreed to modify Windows Vista to better accommodate third-party security software makers.
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15.10.2006 Vista Boosts IE 7 Security Features
Although Internet Explorer 7 has been out for several weeks now, users of the Microsoft Web browser have yet to see all its new features.
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8.12.2006 Vista: A False Sense of Security?
Aiming to improve security in its new operating system, Microsoft has endowed Vista's kernel with highly restricted access, locking out hackers and malware purveyors.
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19.3.2007 Security Updates for IE7 and Vista Beta 1 Available Now
Security updates for Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 and Internet Explorer in Windows Vista Beta 1 are now available from the Windows Vista/IE 7 beta downloads page on the Connect site. Direct links to these updates are also provided below. These security updates resolve a vulnerability in IE 7 Beta 1 and IE in Windows Vista Beta 1 that has already been addressed for released/supported versions of Internet Explorer by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-052.
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Kaspersky predicts Vista security holes
Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted that 90 percent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.
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12.12.2006 Vista Security, Microsoft Called In Pros
When Microsoft introduces its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system this month, it will have an unlikely partner to thank for making its flagship product safe and secure for millions of computer users across the world: the National Security Agency.
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10.1.2007 Security Vendors Lagging on Vista Support
Windows Vista's revamped security features are posing difficulties for some IT security vendors looking to make their software work on the new operating system.
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2.3.2007 Microsoft's Jim Allchin Discusses Vista Security
Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system has been released already for businesses (and beta testers who got a free copy of Vista Ultimate/Business), but the rest of us will have to wait until January 30, 2007 to get our retail copies.
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21.12.2006 New Windows Vista Firewall Fails on Outbound Security
Analysis: New Windows Vista Firewall Fails on Outbound Security. Microsoft touts Windows Vista's significant security improvements but we've found that the firewall in this OS offers little outbound protection.
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9.2.2007 Three Minutes With Vista Security Guru Ben Fathi
Vista's bug count so far is OK with the Windows security manager. Microsoft's Ben Fathi has a new job now that Vista has shipped, but the man who led the company's Security Technology Unit is still focused on keeping the bad guys away from your PC.
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13.2.2007 Did Microsoft's Security Focus Hurt Vista Adoption?
Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
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26.11.2007 Microsoft Responds On RSS Security Concerns in Windows Vista
After a Black Hat presentation called the potential of RSS feeds as an attack vector into question, Microsoft described steps they have taken to mitigate this.
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9.8.2006Review: Vista, XP Users Equally At Peril To Viruses, Exploits
After a week of
extensive testing, the CRN
Test Center found that users
of Windows Vista and Windows
XP are equally at risk to
viruses and exploits and that
overall Vista brings only
marginal security advantages
over XP.
One of Microsoft's big
promises with Vista was a more
secure operating system. But
when stripped to the bare
bones and thrown into the
wild, wild Web, Vista's
security failed to impress
Test Center engineers.
Vista remains riddled with
holes, despite its multilayer
security architecture and
embedded security tools.
Besides providing no
improvement in virus
protection vs. XP, Vista
brings little or no security
gains over its predecessor
against such threats as RDS
exploits, script exploits,
image exploits, VML exploits,
malformed Web pages and known
malicious URLs, the Test
Center found.
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30.05.2007New Features Discovered in Windows XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista?
The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the
security model. Now it seems many of those changes are also coming to XP in SP3...
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10.10.2007Windows Vista vs Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Report 2007
Jeff Jones: In the wake of my
Windows Vista One Year
Vulnerability Report, I have received many questions regarding the current vulnerability record of Windows Vista as compares with Windows XP
SP2.
This short paper is a compilation of vulnerability data for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP SP2 for
calendar year 2007 and a brief analysis to see if any benefit is apparent for users of one OS over the other.
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15.05.2008Vista Security Report Raises More Doubts Than It Relieves
A status report released
yesterday by the director of
Microsoft's Security
Technology Unit contends that,
over the first six months of
its shelf life, Windows Vista
was proven more secure than
its competitors during their
first six months, and more
secure than Windows XP after
its debut, by virtue of the
sole fact that fewer Vista
vulnerabilities were entered
into the National
Vulnerability Database...
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22.06.2007Five reasons why XP will never die
Preston Gralla: Microsoft is doing its best to kill Windows XP, but that's not going to happen. No matter what the company does, the operating system
will live on. Here are five reasons why XP will never die.
Enterprises want XP
There's no escaping the
simple fact that enterprises have snubbed Vista, and show no signs of abandoning XP. Just a few days ago, Forrester said that a survey of 50,000
enterprise users found that throughout 2007, Windows XP use remained at a steady 89%. Vista grew from zero to 6% in that same time, but that came
about because users moved from Windows 2000 to Vista, not from XP to Vista. Don't expect corporations to switch to Vista from XP in 2008.
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03.04.2008Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Whitepaper
When developing Windows Vista, Microsoft set out to provide higher levels of productivity, mobility, and security, with lower costs. After more than
six months of broad availability and usage, it's evident that these investments are improving the Windows computing experience. For example, in the
first six months of use, Windows Vista had fewer security issues than Windows XP (Windows Vista had only 12 issues, and Windows XP had 36). According
to the Windows Vista 6-Month Vulnerability Report by Jeffery R. Jones, Windows Vista had fewer security issues than all the popular operating systems
he studied.
Although most companies are cautious when deploying a new operating system, many have already started testing and
evaluating Windows Vista for deployment, and some have already deployed Windows Vista into their production environments and begun seeing the business
benefits Windows Vista can provide.
Microsoft's efforts to provide the best Windows experience ever in Windows Vista did not end
with its launch. This white paper describes the ways Microsoft strives to continuously improve Windows Vista. It then introduces Windows Vista Service
Pack 1 (SP1) and describes how the service pack will fit into the ongoing improvement process.
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29.08.2007Microsoft: Vista More Secure Than XP and Open Source
Windows Vista was hit by significantly fewer publicly disclosed security flaws in its first year than Windows XP and open source rivals in their first
years, according to a report from Microsoft. The report, written by Jeff Jones, a security strategy director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing
group, is part of Microsoft's effort to show that its work on redesigning the security architecture and adding new security features to Vista have
paid off.
Jones also found that changes to the way Microsoft handles patching has resulted in less work for system administrators on Vista
compared to Windows XP. The report comes on the heels of figures from Secunia, which reported fewer vulnerabilities for Windows in 2007 compared to
open source operating systems in the same time period. However, Microsoft's report compares the way each OS fared in its first full year of
supported distribution.
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25.01.2008On Vista, OSX and security researchers
Robert Hensing: So I made an interesting observation at Cansec last week. By day 3 I realized that I was the
sole
presenter running Vista. Hell I may have been the sole *attendee* running Vista. In fact if I had to break out the presenter laptop
OS's it would go something like this:
- 50% OSX
- 34% Windows XP
- 15% random Linux distros
- 1%
Vista (me)
If you add attendees to the mix the Windows XP numbers go up a bit and the OSX numbers may go down (i.e. it may
be 40% OSX / 40% XP).
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02.04.2008Windows Feature Comparison - Vista SP1 vs XP SP3
Microsoft has just released a whitepaper, which compares the following features and capabilities of Windows Vista with SP1 & Windows XP with SP3 :
Security, Management, Deployment, Mobility, and Productivity.
This Windows Feature Comparison white paper helps customers compare Windows
Vista® advancements with Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional. Using this comparison, customers can adjust their expectations for the
security, management, deployment, mobility, and productivity of either operating system. For each feature or capability, each section compares key
Windows Vista advancements against Windows XP. Presented in a tabular format, it does make an interesting read.
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23.05.2008ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.1 Adds Vista Support
Check Point Software today
released ZoneAlarm Internet
Security Suite 7.1, a
Vista-compatible version of
its flagship security suite.
Vista-compatible versions of
ZoneAlarm Antivirus and the
popular free ZoneAlarm
Firewall are also available.
Past versions of
ZoneAlarm's products have
relied on Microsoft's TDI
(Transport Device Interface)
to track network behavior.
Windows Vista retains support
for TDI, but introduces the
new Windows Filtering Platform
(WFP). While porting to Vista
using TDI would have been
easier, Check Point chose to
support WFP for this
Vista-compatible version. When
installed on Windows 2000 and
XP, however, version 7.1 will
still use TDI.
Check
Point is the first major
security vendor to make use of
the Vista-specific Windows
Filtering Platform. Company
representatives explained that
Microsoft will stop fixing
problems with TDI in the
future, so by utilizing WFP,
users can be prepared for
Vista threats...
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14.06.2007Windows XP Exits Mainstream Support
As planned, today Microsoft has transitioned Window XP into the Extended Support phase, at last exiting Mainstream Support.
In most
cases, Mainstream Support only lasts for about five years. However, for Windows XP, Mainstream Support has gone on for near 7.5 years, due to the
delay and dissatisfaction with Windows Vista. With Extended Support, the only updates offered to Windows XP customers are simple security fixes unless
you purchased the Extended Hotfix Support plan.
According to a recent leak, downgrade rights will still exist until April 30, 2010, well
into Windows 7's release.
For anyone running Windows XP, security fixes will still be available up until April 8, 2014 via Windows
Update.
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15.04.200950 Windows XP & Vista Tips & Tricks
Computer Active has compiled a list of 50 tips to improve performance of both XP and Vista.
For most people using a computer means using
Windows and over the years Microsoft’s operating system has become easier to use.
However, there is always room for improvement, so
in this feature we have compiled 50 of the finest tips for Windows XP and Vista. These can help to make Windows even better, easier to use and faster.
Most don’t even require you to install any extra software, so if you want to make your copy of XP or Vista better, it’s possible to get
started immediately.
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09.05.2008Windows 7 Beta 1 Vs Windows Vista Vs Windows XP
After Windows 7 beta 1 leaked, many bloggers caught hold of it very soon and started testing/using Windows 7. We saw Ed Bott from ZDnet reporting
about the changes in the Windows 7 beta 1 license agreement. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet has benchmarked Windows 7 with its successors Windows
Vista and Windows XP. The Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 was considered for testing. Since its 32bit, it was tested against 32bit versions of
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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03.01.2009Windows XP Gets Security
Certification
Touting the success of it's
new Security Development
Lifecycle (SDL) process,
Microsoft late Wednesday said
Windows Server 2003 and
Windows XP SP2 Professional
and Embedded have secured the
highest Common Criteria
security certification from
the United States
government's National
Information Assurance
Partnership...
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15.12.2005Windows Vista Security at 180 Days
Windows Vista recently passed
the 180 day mark since it was
made available to business
customers. Just as he did at
the
90-day
mark, Jeff Jones, a
Microsoft Director from the
Trustworthy Computing group
and frequent blogger on
security topics, has done a
comparison of vulnerabilities
discovered in Windows Vista
versus other operating systems
in their first 6 months of
availability.
Windows
Vista holds up well in this
comparison, showing a
significantly improved
vulnerability profile over its
first 180 days of availability
compared to Windows XP and the
other operating systems that
were examined. Its
interesting to note that
Windows Vista is being
subjected to a greater level
of scrutiny than its
predecessor, as tools used by
security researchers have
become significantly more
sophisticated since Windows XP
was released.
Jeffs
"Windows Vista 6-month
Vulnerability Report" is
available
here.
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21.06.2007Windows Feature Comparison (XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1)
This white paper helps customers compare Windows Vista advancements with Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Using this comparison, customers can
adjust their expectations for the security, management, deployment, mobility, and productivity of either operating system. For each feature or
capability, each section compares key Windows Vista advancements against Windows XP.
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22.05.2008Get Vista's Best Features in XP
Despite the fact that most of you
prefer XP to Vista and would rather
Microsoft extended XP's shelf-life, several new and improved features
available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn't mean
you're out of luck. Let's take a look at a few ways you can incorporate Windows Vista's best features into your current XP PC for free.
We're going to focus on Vista's small and large features that are missing from XP, separated into three categories: applications,
functional, and aesthetic (e.g., transparency is aesthetic, the new start menu search is functional). This list is not exhaustive, but it does cover
the features readers feel make Vista worth it.
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14.05.2008XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmark
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Here are the benchmark results that many of you have been waiting for - a look at how well ten popular games work on XP SP2,
Vista RTM and Vista SP1.
Its been nearly a year since I took a look at the state of gaming under the Vista OS. The last time I
compared XP SP2 to Vista, I was disappointed with Microsofts new OS as a gaming platform because I could get far more bang for my bucks out of XP than
I could out of the new OS. Partly I put this down to immature drivers, but on the whole I was convinced that at the core of the problem was Vista.
So, is Vista worth bothering with as a gaming platform?
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28.02.2008How to fix Vistas Security Center from reporting missing or duplicate programs
The Windows Security Center which is included with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista is a nice way of seeing the security status overview of your
system but sometimes it makes mistakes after you have uninstalled one or more programs and replaced them with others. Heres how to correct those
problems with Security Center.
Sometimes, after you have uninstalled a firewall, antivirus or malware detection program the entry
remains because the uninstaller failed to remove the entry from the Security Center either by design or just sloppy coding. Either way, you are not
stuck and this is easily fixed.
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09.01.2008Did Microsoft's Security Focus Hurt Vista Adoption?
Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and
enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
Microsoft spent a good deal of
time and money to ensure Vista's security after Windows XP and applications running on it proved susceptible to devastating worms like Blaster,
Slammer and MyDoom. Though Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 2 to remedy some vulnerabilities, the company decided that security would be a
top priority for the next major Windows release, said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of Microsoft's Response and Product Centers.
"The security part of Vista was talked about a lot because it was a primary concern all over the world," he said.
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