Saturday, April 12th, 2008
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The CLSID for an ActiveX control is a GUID for that control. You can prevent an ActiveX control from running in Internet Explorer by setting the kill bit so that the control is never called by Internet Explorer when default settings are used.
The kill bit is a specific value for ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Around a tenth of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, as an attack and spread vector.
Security firm ESET said that 10.3 per cent of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
For security reasons one might want to disable or block downloading through Internet Explorer. There could be several other reasons for this including building a secure Internet kiosk, protecting your PC from malicious files, etc.
So far as I know, this should work with IE 6 or 7. I tested it ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The following is a list of registry entries culled from many trawlings on web pages and discussion groups. They will be most useful for NT network administrators.
The entries follow the format found when exporting registry files using RegEDIT. This allows for easy cut & paste into a custom .REG file ...
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