ShareHackers could take advantage of the more than 15 million computers that have been infected by the Conficker virus on April 1, experts have warned. Concerns have been raised that hackers could have unrestricted access to every infected machine in the world. The worm virus has already attacked the Houses of Parliament IT system and many homes and businesses remain at risk. Known variously as Conficker, [...]

ShareA flaw in Vista’s networking has been found that can crash the system, but no fix is expected until the next service pack. A flaw has been found in Windows Vista that could allow Rootkits to be hidden or Denial-of-service attacks to be executed on computers using the operating system. The vulnerability was found by Thomas Unterleitner of Austrian security company Phion and was announced [...]

ShareInternet Explorer fetches its icons and Gifs from a DLL file that is associated with explorer.exe. The dll file that is required for the Background script processing of Internet Explorer is “shdoclc.dll” and is located in “C:\windows\system32\shdoclc.dll” Here are few thing i found out, when exploring the MS-IE. I have opened up the Dll file (shdoclc.dll),analyzed it and found some interesting [...]

ShareMicrosoft sued in China for Black Screen of Death WGA wins more enemies A Chinese lawyer has filed a legal complaint against Microsoft for installing Windows Genuine Advantage on his computer. He has asked the Ministry of Public Security to file criminal charges against Microsoft. Dong Zhengwei accused the company of hacking into people’s computers. He said: “I respect the right of [...]

SharePowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. What are they? PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released. Note: We take great care to ensure that PowerToys work as they should, but they are not part of Windows and are not supported by Microsoft. For this reason, Microsoft Technical Support is unable to answer questions about PowerToys. [...]