Security company claims Vista’s PatchGuard cracked

Controversy has emerged over PatchGuard, the kernel protection service scheduled to be included in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. Microsoft’s PatchGuard technology, scheduled for inclusion in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, has caused a furor from certain antivirus vendors, who charged that Microsoft was gaining an “unfair advantage” by not allowing them unfettered … Read more

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Released

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 is the technology which enables instant search on your computer. It helps you to find, preview, and use your documents, e-mail, music, photos, and other items. The search engine in Windows Desktop Search 3.0 is a Windows service that is also used by applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and … Read more

Pre RTM Build of Vista Leaked on Torrents.

A Pre RTM Build of Vista was found in Torrents. This Vista build 5840 includes a surprising number of brand-new and final icons, and a new set of final wallpapers, including a default wallpaper that’s a variation of the Aurora “swoosh” that Microsoft has been using as a Vista identifier since it announced the branding … Read more

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Final Released

The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox. Despite not being featured on the Firefox homepage the files have all been uploaded to the Mozilla FTP site. The Windows installer weighs in at 5568KB, and was uploaded at 0819GMT today. As well as this both Mac and Linux … Read more

Vista Tricks – Open Command Prompt here

Microsoft Vista is the new operating system which is going to released early next year. It is going to succeed Windows XP. I have been testing all the Beta versions. Recently Microsoft released Release Candidate 2 of this new OS. As RC 2 reflects almost the final form of what Vista will look like when … Read more

First IE7 / Outlook Express flaw detected in less than 24 hours

It is not even a day since the launch of Internet Explorer 7, security researchers are already poking holes in the new browser. Danish security company Secunia reported today that IE7 contains an information disclosure vulnerability, the same one it reported in IE6 in April. The vulnerability affects the final version of IE7 running on … Read more