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Dell has released BIOS 1.1.20 for the XPS 8930 to fix some security issues. After you install this update, be sure to go into BIOS setup and confirm that the settings for UEFI Capsule Updates, Automatic BIOS Recovery, Integrity Check, Wake by LAN, etc, are set the way you want. If you changed any o

Just got offered update KB3022345 to install Windows Diagnostic Tracking Service for Win 7 Pro, which is standard part of Win 10. Here's what MS says: DiagTrack - The Diagnostics Tracking Service When you acquire, install and use the Program, Microsoft collects information about you, your devices

Did a Google search today and found a result which seemed right. Clicked the link and started reading that website but didn't click any links on the page. A Windows Defender (Win 10 Pro) box suddenly popped up in middle of the screen saying the site was potentially harmful and advised me to cl

MsMpEng.exe (Microsoft Security Essentials) has suddenly / recently been using a lot of CPU time, to the point that performance is lagging (Win 7 Pro+SP1), especially for IE11. If I open MSE control panel and turn off real time protection, CPU usage drops. I can turn real time protection back on as

Had to wipe and reinstall everything on my laptop. [:'(] I downloaded and installed MBAM 3.0.6 which seems to be a free trial. If I don't want to purchase a subscription, will this trial revert to a free version like I previously had? I previously was running MBAE (free) all the ti

Found 2 new updates tonight (Mon, 3-9-15), and I presume they're actually the regular Update Tues updates. March Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) installed and ran ok but MSE Definitions Update (KB2310138) failed to install twice, both times with error code 80200053. I ran the Windows Up

Windows Security Intelligence virus-definition update 1.313.1638.0 was supposed to improve Windows Defender but ended up breaking it instead. With the new definitions installed, running a full system scan in Windows Defender will lead to the program crashing, along with countless error messages fro

FBI paid Geek Squad ‘informants’ Who knows what other personal info and data they collect while fixing a PC? Next thing you know, Geek Squad (and others) will be installing spyware so be sure to scan for malware after you get it fixed...

The ultimate malware! Microsoft has admitted that it is blocking Windows 7 and 8 updates on Intel’s seventh generation Core i3, i5, Qualcomm’s 8996 and other processors to ‘force’ users upgrade to Windows 10, a media report said....Intel Skylake processors will also not be supported on Windows 7 an

Unsecured Microsoft AI data was found online by security researchers at Wiz. The link included passwords, Teams messages, security keys, and more for 359 Microsoft employees. 38T of data was free for the taking...  Yikes! And Microsoft thinks average users have security issues...

The PowerWare ransomware is written completely in the Windows PowerShell scripting language...being distributed to victims via phishing emails containing Word documents with malicious macros. Read more here. You probably want to open both Word and Excel and go to their Tools>Macro>Security

Court documents allege Costco installed Meta’s analytical tool, Meta Pixel, on its website. Meta Pixel tracks website visitors and activities, and gives Meta access to Costco customer data, including prescriptions filled, healthcare treatments, health insurance data, patient location, etc. Read more

Microsoft is essentially leaving clues for hackers when it patches Windows 10, but not Windows 7, argues Mateusz Jurczyk at Google's Project Zero. Read more here. And for techno-geeks, read his entire Google Project Zero blog here.

Scammers trying to get users to update Adobe Flash are busy again, both on PCs and Android devices. Flash has been dead and gone for a couple of years already, so any popup, SMS, email, etc telling you to click a link to update Flash is just going to install malware on your system. I got such a po

I opened a new tab in IE11 (Win 7 Pro, 32-bit) today by clicking the little New Tab button next to the title of the current tab. Surprise, surprise... The new tab opened full of links to all kinds of news, weather (including my exact location), and other unnecessary you-know-what. I clicked the li

Anybody know if and how Microsoft Safety Scanner differs from their Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT)?

Popular tax prep sites such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer are secretly sending your data to Meta, parent of Facebook. These sites have an embedded Meta Pixel that sends sensitive data to Facebook including user name, email address, income data, filing status, refund amount, and dependents

Netstat from c: prompt indicates the presence of open connection to babe.the-killer.bz Thanks for the help     Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1Scan saved at 7:16:32 PM, on 3/25/2008Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)Running process

Norton Crypto is a new feature available in Norton 360 which you can use to mine cryptocurrency when your PC is idle. Norton Crypto is supposedly limited to users with devices meeting the necessary system requirements. And Norton skims 15% off the top of any crypto found using your PC. The program

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_other&message.id=50454 Message Edited by RoHe on 03-04-2006 09:06 PM