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Microsoft designed Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) to prevent software piracy. WGA consists of two components: Validation and Notification. The validation part ensures that you are using a legal copy of.
According to Microsoft "Broadly speaking, spyware is deceptive software that is installed on a user's computer without the user's consent and has some malicious purpose." Brian Livingston of WindowsSecrets.com disagrees.
To demonstrate some of the security issues, Joel Helgeson of Appiant.net has posted a video that shows how he used SQL injection to bypass security controls on a college Web.
Instant messaging, the quicker-than-e-mail alternative for online communication, is moving rapidly from teenagers' bedrooms to mainstream America. Last month, the number of instant messages containing computer "malware" soared by 500.
Microsoft has released the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to help remove specific, prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, or.
One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what.
A new partnership has been formed by Pointsec Mobile Technologies, a provider of enterprise security software for laptop and desktop PCs, PDAs and smartphones, and software company Hitachi Software Engineering.
By default Outlook blocks several types of attachments for security reasons. There are two levels of attachment security in Microsoft Outlook 2003. Access to Level 1 files is blocked and.