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• Time for Microsoft to Change Its Patch Policy?

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jun 05 2007, 10:45 PM

  Filed under: Windows Update, Windows Genuine Advantage

  A very interesting post on the Google Online Security Blog analyzes which web servers are responsible for the world's malware . Microsoft IIS 6 tied with Apache at 49% for compromised servers, even though Apache has a 40% lead in deployments. Apache makes
  

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• Malware Posing as Windows Product Activation

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on May 11 2007, 06:10 PM

  Filed under: Windows Product Activation, Malware, Windows Genuine Advantage

  Alex Kochis of the WGA Blog posted today that Symantec has details of a new trojan that masquerades as Windows XP Product Activation to steal a user's credit card information. If you select "no", your system immediately shuts down. It also disables the
  

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