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Microsoft has released Security Essentials. Security Essentials is Microsoft’s free anti-virus product for Windows XP, Windows Vista and (most important) Windows 7. Microsoft claims that Security Essentials will have a small footprint, and will have minimal impact on your computer’s performance (CPU and Memory wise). We’ll see! Get your own free copy here.

I have written a small HOW TO on how to use a Customer Membership Provider, a Custom Role-Provider and a Custom Membership User for username/password authentication in a WCF Service that is hosted in a Windows Service. The HOW TO includes a sample implementation of these providers. It also includes a complete Visual Studio Project [...]

During TechEd 2008 Marcus Murray (http://truesecurity.se/blogs/murray/default.aspx) asked the audiance if they were aware of a ‘secret backdoor password’ in Windows. Although half of the audiance acknowledged this, the ‘demo’ following the statement had nothing to do with a ‘backdoor password’ in Windows (Vista or XP). What he showed was that, if you (1) can gain [...]

Without further adue, here it is; x64 (64bit)   -   x86 (32bit)  Well, these links are for Windows Vista in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. But I’m sure the other languages will follow shortly. At first, it will be available as a download, in April or a little later, it will be available through Windows Update. (Want [...]