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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 [...]

Windows XP users can now download Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) via Windows Update or the Microsoft Download Center. Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released updates for the operating system, in addition to a small number of new updates. It will not significantly change the Windows XP experience. If you are a TechNet [...]