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Marketing with Microsoft adCenter

Published 19 January 8 9:45 PM | Essential Computer Security

If you have visited a web site recently, it is a virtual certainty that you have seen pay-per-click advertising links. Actually, you are here on my site reading this post, and I have pay-per-click advertising links, so it is an absolute certainty. Most...

Filed under: internet, microsoft, web, News and Info, marketing, AdSense, Google, ppc, adCenter, advertising, pay-per-click

Windows Integrity Control

Published 5 February 7 9:56 AM | tonybradley

With Vista, Microsoft introduced a new security concept to help protect your computer. Rather than relying on discretionary controls, like NTFS file and folder permissions which users can assign and change, Vista also has new mandatory controls. WIC,...

Filed under: internet, windows vista, microsoft, security, user, internet explorer, ie7, web, protected mode, wic, object, mandatory integrity control, trust, windows integrity control, mic

IE6 Vulnerable More Than 3/4 Of 2006

Published 7 January 7 9:38 AM | tonybradley

According to a study compiled by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs , Internet Explorer 6 was vulnerable for 284 out of 365 days in 2006. That amounts to over 77% of the year. What does that mean? It means the for 3/4 of the year there were known vulnerabilities...

Filed under: internet, home computer, windows xp, microsoft, security, vulnerability, patch, internet explorer, ie7, web, worm, hack, firefox, zero-day

Unpatched Flaw In Microsoft Word Being Exploited

Published 6 September 6 6:27 AM | tonybradley

A flaw in the way Microsoft Word 2000 documents are processed could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely on vulnerable systems according to a Secunia alert. Exploit code has been identified in the wild and no patch is currently available...

Filed under: internet, windows xp, microsoft, security, flaw, vulnerability, patch, web, word