Microsoft has quietly released an update for Internet Explorer that fixes a problem with the browser's phishing shield.The feature that protects against fraudulent Web sites, new in IE 7, in some cases...
Microsoft has released a fix for Internet Explorer 7 that should stop the browser's built-in phishing filter from slowing Web surfing. According to the Redmond, Wash., developer, IE 7 users may see their...
The late-2006 appearance of durable botnets was a tipping point in the back-and-forth battle against spammers, an industry analyst said Friday, who predicted that spam will continue to gain ground on defenses.Assembled...
Microsoft has released its first toolkit for building robotics software, an area of customized development that remains a tedious process.The Robotics Studio is a Windows-based development environment...
Symantec's push to double its services revenue to $1 billion a year by 2010 includes a restructuring of its services offerings. The company said Wednesday the plan includes Symantec Operational Services...
Microsoft on Tuesday released seven security updates that patched 11 vulnerabilities, almost half of them judged "critical," and broke a four-year-old record for the most fixes posted in a year.As expected...
The Ecma international standards body gave its approval to Microsoft's Open XML office software format this week. "The biggest significance of clearing Ecma is it puts them in a position to be on a fast...
Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new...
Mozilla's Firefox browser continued to erode Microsoft's Internet Explorer market share during November, a Web metrics company said Wednesday, even as IE 7 gained momentum.According to Net Applications...
What if you could rig it so that competing with your flagship product was against the law? Under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, breaking an anti-copying system is illegal, even if you're breaking...
wo security companies have posted information and tools to help users track so-called "zero-day" bugs and sniff out software vulnerable to attack.On Tuesday, eEye Digital Security launched a Web site...
Microsoft is building a suite of products for Web designers and creative professionals that should step up its challenge to market leader Adobe Systems.As a start, the company on Monday released Expression...
Top OEMs this week launched Vista-Ready and Vista-Premium Ready PCs, tools and services for business customers. But system builders say Thursday's enterprise launch of Vista was a non-event.Microsoft...
Microsoft released Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday, but most security companies look like they need more time to deliver tools to protect the new operating system.Symantec, Trend Micro and CA...
Adobe Systems this week issued an advisory acknowledging that vulnerabilities may exist in Windows versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could crash the applications and enable remote attackers to...
A new Microsoft Web site targeting Windows Vista and Office 2007 developers will give away 30,000 copies of the new operating system and application suite to users who register for at least three Webcast...
Despite state grants funding migrations to Linux desktops, several Indiana school districts are sticking with Microsoft's desktop platform, according to a study in which the software giant participated.In...
Number of people ask me what I think of the transformation packs that allow you to make Windows XP look like Windows Vista. I had to be honest and say that I'd never tried to do this because I've been...
Oracle is about to get taken behind the woodshed again for security issues in its database software.A month after the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based database giant was criticized for downplaying security...
Zone Labs, a division of Check Point Software Technologies, is planning to release tomorrow a public beta for ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7.0. This is the upgrade to the 6.0 product, which ranked...