Virus targets 64-bit Windows

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Virus writers have unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus firm Symantec said Monday. The virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle by Symantec, seems mainly to be an experiment to test the concept of a 64-bit infecter and is not actively spread, said Alfred Huger, senior director of security ...

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NT/2K/XP – A Brief History

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

~Lockergnome What's the difference? Well, at the very core of them, not much. When you see talk of Windows 98/ME being more stable than Windows 2000 or XP, don't buy into it. Not because 98SE isn't one of Microsoft's better efforts, but because of the disaster of an OS architecture ...

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