Microsoft Wants To Quarantine Infected Computers At A Cost

Windows maker Microsoft Corp. went on to patch its antivirus software on Friday that was incorrectly targeting Google’s Chrome Web browser, the company announced. The antivirus program in question, the company’s own...

As from today, Microsoft will be offering Windows users in the European Union the possibility to choose which browser they want to use on their operating system, a process which was imposed by the Redmond software maker, by the...

Microsoft will be replacing its now defunct Live Onecare security package by a free application called Morro which is set to debut fairly soon and which aims to protect Windows users from spyware, viruses (or in geek speak,...

Microsoft will be launching a bunch of updates for its Office application suite and Internet Explorer in a few hours' time; eight patches issued by the software giant will be addressing 23 vulnerabilities. Of the eight security...

Microsoft has announced a reward of worth $250,000 for any information resulting into the arrest and conviction of those who authored the infamous ‘Conficker’ worm that has infected several millions of Windows PCs...

Microsoft Corp. has finally patched the nasty flaw in Internet Explorer 7, which is claimed to have affected over 2 million users across the globe, in an out-of-cycle security update released on Wednesday. The vulnerability, if...

Researchers from Microsoft have warned of a new wave of attacks exploiting a critical vulnerability in Windows Server Service, patched by the company with an emergency update last month. If you haven’t patched the...

A team of security researchers have reported a new worm that exploits a known bug, which was supposed to be fixed in Microsoft’s emergency security patch that was released a couple of weeks back.  Codenamed as...

Microsoft has released an “out of band” security patch, aimed at fixing a critical vulnerability in almost all versions of Windows and Windows Server.  Researchers at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Centre...

Hackers are now using Microsoft’s well-known Tuesday security patch release as a vehicle for spreading malware and spywares across the web users.   A number of Microsoft Software users have reported receiving...

Microsoft researchers have warned users of a new potential attack on its Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which allows users to view Access report snapshot without using the standard version of Microsoft Office Access. ...

Since the beginning of 2008 many websites have found themselves the target of hacker’s SQL Injection attacks.SQL injections attacks caused the visitors to a Website to get directed to sites with malware which...

Microsoft has released a formal warning to Safari users and urged them to stop using Apple's web browser until the company comes up with a patch to close the vulnerability which affects all versions of Windows XP and Vista. The...

Microsoft has released six patches yesterday as part of its ritual patch Tuesday, three of which were flagged as critical and relate to Windows, Word, Publisher and Microsoft's own Malware Protection Engine. Arguably the most...

A report by Microsoft reveals an inconvenient truth about Windows Users and their behaviour which some security experts might find... troubling. According to the compiled data, users voluntarily download and install adware even...