Vista’s Security Fails

Do you believe what Microsoft says about Vista being the most secure version of Windows yet? Do you trust in Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus software to protect you? If your answer is yes, then you are in trouble. Microsoft yesterday acknowledged on their Technet Blog that poor test results of its OneCare anti-virus software in last … Read more

Microsoft Allows Cracking Vista

Microsoft, which has created enough hurdles to get rid of piracy by making customers activate each and every product they purchase. If that is not enough they expect all the users to go through the scrutiny of genuineness validation. No comes the surprise. The same company also has created loopholes in Windows Vista for all … Read more

Winhelp for Vista released

As I have pointed out in this article (How to read *.hlp files on Vista) Windows Help program WinHlp32.exe was not included in Vista. Now Microsoft has released WinHlp32.exe for Windows Vista. Microsoft’s excuse for not including windows help program, was that program has not had a major update for many releases and no longer … Read more

Vista Speech Recognition Hole

An issue has been identified publicly where an attacker could use the speech recognition capability of Windows Vista to cause the system to take undesired actions. While this is possible there are a number of factors that make this “attack” very hard to pull off. In order for the attack to be successful, the targeted … Read more

BitDefender for Windows Vista 10.2

BitDefender, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today the availability of BitDefender v10 security solutions for Microsoft Windows Vista based on 32bit. Available through BitDefenderā€™s web site BitDefender Internet Security v10, AntiVirus Plus v10 and AntiVirus v10 offers solutions with a wide range of protection created for different needs in … Read more