Microsoft – General

Like the title says, CA Integrated Threat Management (aka CA ITM, eTrust ITM, etc) is god-awful!  We’ve been running it at my office for almost two years and I’m glad to say we are NOT renewing the subscription.  I can’t count how many infections I’ve removed from employee’s PCs that CA has missed but free

This morning Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a 10 year deal in which MS will have access to Yahoo’s search technology (and presumably incorporate some of it into Bing) and Yahoo will take over as the main advertisement provider for Bing.  There were talks a few months back between the two companies in which it

As of 8:30 CDT (9:30 EST) WPC 2009 has started.  Steve Ballmer is expected to give his keynote speech tomorrow sometime, during which, Windows 7 is expected to be announced as finally gone RTM.  Also, more information is expected to be released regarding Office 2010, which is expected to release during the first half of

A recently discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer has the potential for an attacker to take remote control of an exploited machine.  This vulnerability lies within ActiveX video controls.  Microsoft recommends disabling ActiveX support (or at least use ActiveX controls with caution).  This only effects XP & 2003 users (possibly 2000, I’m not sure) using IE

In case you were not aware, Microsoft has been working on a new free antivirus program to replace their OneCare security product.  This program was codenamed “Morro” but has recently been announced as “Microsoft Security Essentials”.  While the public beta was limited to 75,000 people, the installer was quickly mirrored elsewhere, so here is a