• Additional Information on Conficker – MSRT removing Conficker

    Over the last few days I blogged several times about Conficker and some of the posts caught quite some press attention. Especially when I talked about the Russian Roulette. Today I have very, very good news: The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT...
  • Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

    Well, we call it simply DaRT. You know the feeling: A machine does not boot anymore, crashed, has a virus you cannot clean with the OS in a running state or any of the other nightmare scenarios in daily operations of computers. Since quite some time there...
  • The Value of Operating System Comparisons

    Since Blaster/Slammer, namely since the start of Trustworthy Computing I am working at Microsoft in a publically facing security role. I went through all the blaming and had to take all the heat of what we did wrong and how bad we are – and I admitted...
  • Why Windows 7 XP Mode makes sense from a security perspective

    I have to admit: When I first learned about Windows 7 XP Mode I was quite surprised. How can we actually ship an XP Virtual Machine with Windows 7? Well, then I started to think (no, it did not hurt too much)… But before I share my findings with you,...
  • Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade

    I just read a post on slashdot : During a recent trip to an eye doctor, I noticed that she was still using Windows XP. After I suggested that she might need to upgrade soon, she said she couldn't because she couldn't afford the $10,000 fee involved...