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Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 to the sole remaining computer running XP that I have. This morning, I came down and was greeted with incessant reboots. The computer booted, apologized for not being able to boot properly, asked if I wanted to boot into safe mode, defaulted to normal boot,...
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Updates Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console. Updated May 10 with some clarifications, a possible video driver problem causing other STOP errors, and an additional work...
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Last week I found a post in the Vista newsgroups from a lady who was having problems installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus. She was getting an error 1722 upon installation on one computer out of three and the installation failed. She had called both Kaspersky and here computer manufacturer (HP) and neither...
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Last week I found a post in the Vista newsgroups from a lady who was having problems installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus. She was getting an error 1722 upon installation on one computer out of three and the installation failed. She had called both Kaspersky and here computer manufacturer (HP) and neither...
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On January 23, Jeff Jones, Director of Security at Microsoft, published his "One Year Vulnerability Report" for Windows Vista. In the report, he analyzed whether Windows Vista had fewer vulnerabilities in its first year than it's predecessor, Windows XP had in its first year. Jeff also...
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On January 23, Jeff Jones, Director of Security at Microsoft, published his "One Year Vulnerability Report" for Windows Vista. In the report, he analyzed whether Windows Vista had fewer vulnerabilities in its first year than it's predecessor, Windows XP had in its first year. Jeff also...
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A couple of weeks ago I published a script to list installed updates . Predictably, one of the comments ask for a version that can do that remotely. Here it is . This version can be run a couple of ways. First, you can double-click it. If you do it will prompt you for which computer to list the updates...
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A couple of weeks ago I published a script to list installed updates . Predictably, one of the comments ask for a version that can do that remotely. Here it is. This version can be run a couple of ways. First, you can double-click it. If you do it will prompt you for which computer to list the updates...
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The January issue of TechNet Magazine has an article I wrote about how to hack a system using autoplaying USB flash drives. While it is not possible to stop all attacks from USB tokens, Vista does include some interesting protective measures. However, the autoplay decision flow in Vista is quite convoluted...
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The January issue of TechNet Magazine has an article I wrote about how to hack a system using autoplaying USB flash drives. While it is not possible to stop all attacks from USB tokens, Vista does include some interesting protective measures. However, the autoplay decision flow in Vista is quite convoluted...