August 3, 2011 - The second half of 2011 got off to a great start for AVAST Software (even if it was rough in terms of Prague’s “summer” weather, which been more like an out-of-place autumn). We began the third quarter with a record (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2011 - Last month while discussing the enormous quantity of fixes in (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2011 - Our friends over at the FutureFed blog reported that Windows 7 the has passed the Common Criteria (CC) certification process and achieved Evaluation Assurance Level 4 with augmentation (EAL4+). Common Criteria certification is an international standard recognized (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2011 - Our friends over at the FutureFed blog reported that Windows 7 the has passed the Common Criteria (CC) certification process and achieved Evaluation Assurance Level 4 with augmentation (EAL4+). Common Criteria certification is an international standard recognized (continue reading...) Read more
April 27, 2011 - Our friends over at the FutureFed blog reported that Windows 7 the has passed the Common Criteria (CC) certification process and achieved Evaluation Assurance Level 4 with augmentation (EAL4+). Common Criteria certification is an international standard recognized (continue reading...) Read more
February 23, 2011 - The rumors have been circulating for months, but it appears that service pack 1 is now available for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Microsoft (continue reading...) Read more
November 24, 2010 - A new zero-day exploit in Microsoft Windows was disclosed today. The exploit allows an application to elevate privilege to "system," and in Vista and Windows 7 also bypass User Account Control (UAC). The flaw was posted briefly on a programming (continue reading...) Read more
October 25, 2010 - Last week, we saw the re-emergence of another new trojan that is disguising itself as Microsoft’s no-cost antimalware program Microsoft Security Essentials. This imposter is known in the technical world of antimalware combat as “Win32/FakePAV”. FakePAV is (continue reading...) Read more
October 14, 2010 - And a giant step for users! While working on a blog soon to follow this I discovered a behavior in Windows 7 that Microsoft has changed to make a small, but meaningful improvement in security. For decades the bane of (continue reading...) Read more
October 6, 2010 - We announced back in September that Microsoft Security Essentials would be changing its licensing terms and would soon become available to small business on up to 10 PCs. We are happy to announce that beginning tomorrow, October 7, the (continue reading...) Read more
September 29, 2010 - It has been one year since Microsoft Security Essentials was made generally available to the public and to celebrate, we are pleased to share that there are now over 30 million customers in 74 different countries around the world (continue reading...) Read more
September 20, 2010 - Next month Memoryze will be two years old and a lot has changed over that time. There has been a lot of interesting research in the field of memory forensics, and responders are finding value in the analysis. (continue reading...) Read more
August 18, 2010 - Anti-virus research and data security organization AV-Test recently spent three months testing 19 security products in the areas of protection, repair and usability. On Monday, August 16th they released the test results, and we’re excited that Microsoft Security Essentials (continue reading...) Read more
August 12, 2010 - By way of introduction, I’m Eric Foster and have recently joined my colleagues on The Windows Blog to write on ‘all things’ security. I thought it only fitting that my first blog be about one of my favorite personal product (continue reading...) Read more
July 19, 2010 - News about a new attack via USB flash drive, known as Stuxnet.B, is surfacing. The Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda recently discovered it and published a report on it. There are several points about this (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2010 - I recently helped a friend set up her new Win7 box – it was a breeze, especially when compared to (or perhaps because of) the Vista lappie I set up for her a couple of years back. We had to (continue reading...) Read more
June 9, 2010 - Microsoft delivered 10 security updates yesterday to patch a record-tying 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint. Microsoft labeled three as “critical” – because they allowed attackers to remotely install malware on victim machines – two address (continue reading...) Read more
March 26, 2010 - Posted on half of Pete LePage on the Internet Explorer team. Protecting Windows customers is an absolute priority for the Internet Explorer engineering team. That's why we work hard to make sure our browser has some of the best safety and (continue reading...) Read more
March 16, 2010 - Earlier today, Core Security Technologies issued a security advisory for our Virtual PC (VPC) software. The advisory calls out a proof of concept where the virtual machine monitor allows memory pages above the 2GB level to be read from or (continue reading...) Read more
February 10, 2010 - Last week at the Black Hat DC conference a presenter showed how one manufacturer's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) could be physically compromised to gain access to the secrets stored inside. Since that presentation, I have had plenty of questions from (continue reading...) Read more