Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), part of Microsoft Windows, provides a mechanism to create consistent point-in-time copies of hard-drives and is used by backup applications such as GFI Backup. Further information on how VSS works can be found at …

Some VIPRE® users have notified us that they are getting warnings from the Microsoft Security Center that VIPRE® is incompatible with Microsoft’s Vista SP1. It’s a false alarm. The warning pop-up window looks like this: The text of the note …

Have you ever wondered as to how processor affinity influences a single threaded process on a multiprocessor machine? Well, I have. Today nearly all new machines come with 2 or 4 cores. If you’re lucky, you have an 8 core …

The partnership between Sunbelt Software and StopBadware.org was part of this week’s Data Security Podcast, with info security specialist Ira Victor and broadcaster Samantha Stone. Sunbelt sponsors this podcast, but that’s not the reason we were part of the discussion. …

Data has nowadays become our most valuable asset which needs to be protected at any cost. Data can be protected in many ways; however, the most common technique to protect information is with the use of passwords. A password consists …

In the first of this two part article, the discussion centered around the creation of IT security policies and why there often is strong resistance to their existence and implementation. Successfully implementing IT security polices goes beyond the technology and …

PCWorld is reporting that the distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S. and South Korean government web sites was commanded from one controlling server, not in North Korea, not in South Korea, not in the UK, but rather Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Yesterday, …

Want to add another T-shirt to your wardrobe? Not just any old T-shirt but a funny, humorous one that will attract people’s attention and make them want one too. To own one of these exclusive T-shirts, GFI Software is running …

Octoshape, the Danish P2P video “enhancer” that came into prominence after it was offered on CNN’s site during the presidential inauguration in January, still has only an obscure link to its EULA where it explains that it IS peer-to-peer software …

This is the third post of a three part series in which we explore the world of svchost.exe. In part 1, I introduced the topic of the multiple svchost.exe instances running on Microsoft operating systems; their implied usage; as well …