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Friday, October 16, 2009 4:02 PM

Microsoft Security Essentials

Somehow, in all the other activities of the last couple of weeks I missed the release of Microsoft Security Essentials which is our FREE* anti-virus / anti-malware product aimed at home users. (We have the more business oriented Forefront Client Security
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:08 PM

Sophos error: facts not found

Having begun my previous post with an explanation of “ I have a professional disregard for …” it bubbles up again… Quite near were I live is the headquarters of Sophos, as a local company I should be well disposed to them but I’ve had occasion before
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:24 AM

How to manage the Windows firewall settings with PowerShell

I mentioned recently that I’m writing a PowerShell configuration tool for the R2 edition of Hyper-V server and Windows server core. One of the key parts of that is managing the firewall settings…. Now… I don’t want to plug my book too much (especially
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Friday, February 06, 2009 2:49 PM

Can I get published if I say that rain is wet or snow is cold ?

I saw this article earlier today. “The vast majority of all critical Microsoft vulnerabilities, some 92 per cent, could have been mitigated by removing the administrator rights of Windows users, a new report has revealed.” Strike out the numbers and the
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 1:42 PM

Windows 7 and UAC

From the start I thought User Account Control was a big step forward for Vista I tended to brush off any complaints about UAC, for 3 reasons Most of the appearances of UAC appear during the initial setup of the machine. If this is onerous, then you can
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:48 AM

IE Security Patch

You may have seen in the news over the last few days that a vulnerability has come to light in IE, which allows a carefully crafted web page to run arbitrary code on a PC. I don’t assess the technical side vulnerabilities -  some of the things written
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:27 AM

Safe on-line part 2 (in praise of John Lewis)

I’ve talked about brand values and somewhere along the line I sure I said that I choose to shop at Waitrose instead of Tesco or Sainsbury’s. Since Waitrose is part of the John Lewis partnership I have had one of their credit cards for a while (my local
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:02 PM

Get Safe Online ‘08

The First time I ever worked with Steve was on GSOL the first year it ran. It’s become an annual event, and I hope that no-one who regularly reads this blog needs to be told too much about on-line safety. It’s pretty simple stuff. Keep your machine patched
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Friday, October 10, 2008 10:12 AM

Never, ever run executables which arrive unexpectedly by mail.

I had this waiting for me on my home PC this morning. From: Microsoft [mailto:customerservice@microsoft.com] Sent: 10 October 2008 02:25 To: {My home account} Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows Dear Microsoft Customer, Please notice that
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:40 AM

A novel password policy

Setting up some demo servers recently Steve and I tripped over the Windows 2008's default password policy: it needed to be relaxed to get to easy password we use in demos. Steve advocates pass-phrases "IHateChangingmyPasswordEvery30Days" is
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:38 PM

Security, Security, Security.

The story last week that someone had left a secret folder of documents on a train - which were then given to the BBC brought back memories for me. Shortly after my wife and I had moved into our first house, she brought home a brown paper envelope she
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:23 PM

Core! that firewall management has some tricks.

Quite a lot of the last few days has gone into preparation for the Road-Show and making sure I had all the things right for show Windows Server Core. Core, as you probably know by now, is server 2008 with support of only a subset of features, and most
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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:04 PM

While you were sleeping ... an attack on bitlocker etc

I'm always suspicious of people talking down security vulnerabilities, but I don't like to see them over-hyped  either; so I'm going down the former path. You are allowed to be skeptical. A couple of people have mailed me this morning about this
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:32 PM

Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Perhaps it's a bit strong to say "if complete and utter chaos was lightning, Jeff Jones would be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards' " (as a favourite quote has it) but you must
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:36 AM

Vista SP1 to drop "Reduced functionality mode"

I guess I'm not the only person in Microsoft who thought that stopping software working when it seemed to be pirated was a good idea. To be honest, I still do. However, the process has to be infallible. If it's 99.9% correct and you sell 100 Million copies
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