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Really, Vista Security Isn’t Lame

Recently a friend was complaining to me about the “screen flickering” that occurs whenever a User Account Control (UAC) prompt comes up in Vista and he wanted to know how to turn it off—not UAC, just the dimming and flickering effects. He...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2007 4:25 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Windows Security, Hardening, Malware, NTFS, Uncategorized, Windows File Protection

Time for a Windows Cleanup

I have always been annoyed with the huge number of files under the Windows directory, but I was very surprised when I looked at my Windows directory under Vista: 39,609 files and 7,411 folders! Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2007 4:28 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Windows Security, Hardening, Windows File Protection

Plagued with Leaky Buckets

A couple years ago I thought a pond would be a nice addition to an empty space on the side of my old house. I didn’t know anything about constructing ponds at the time but I thought that actually doing it would be a good way to learn. After reading...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2007 11:45 AM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Malware, Windows File Protection

What’s with this WMPUB directory?

I was recently going through my windows lockdown procedure, cleaning up unnecessary files and noticed that every Windows 2003 Server I own has a wmpub directory in the root of my C drive. The only thing in the directory is an empty subdirectory named...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2006 11:09 PM by MBs Windows Security

Filed under: Hardening, Windows File Protection

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What’s with this WMPUB directory?