Often, ransomware attackers may not realize that they have compromised a business, and so their demands are for sums that individuals could afford. But should you pay the ransom?

Better, faster, cheaper! That’s what “The Cloud” promises. Move your services to the cloud and you’ll save so much money and be way more efficient, you’ll be considered a hero by your CEO.

A critical, zero-day exploit against all versions of Microsoft® Corporation’s Internet Explorer® (IE) was announced by Microsoft. Users of every version of IE from the no longer supported IE6 all the way through the brand new IE11 that isn’t even publicly available yet are cautioned about this vulnerability, which when exploited can result in remote […]

Today, Microsoft® announced that it is doubling the storage of Exchange Online and Office 365™ for their business customers by November. The storage will increase from 25GB to 50GB. WOOHOO! I hear you shout . . . but hang on there is more.

Windows 7 RTM build distribution plan is in execution to partners and public; however, we were missing the dates when Windows 2008 Server R2 RTM would be made available. Thanks to the Windows 2008 R2 team blog, these dates are now available:  

July 22nd 2009 – Steve Ballmer signed off the RTM builds for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at the annual sales kick-off event in Atlanta. This is big news for us all at GFI. Video of signing: Windows 7 Sneak-Peak from MGX Congratulations to the engineering teams of both products! I am personally […]

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 as why it is something we should learn more about. In part 2, I went […]

For a large number of hardcore Windows enthusiasts around the world, today is a big day. Today we are all waiting for the signal from Microsoft that the latest Windows 7 build is signed off and Released to Manufacturing (RTM). The announcement is widely expected to be made at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 by […]

This is the second post of a three part series in which we explore the world of svchost.exe. In Part 1, we introduced the multiple svchost.exe instances running on Microsoft operating systems; their implied usage; as well as why it is something we should understand a bit more about.  I will now go into more […]

Computer running slower than usual? Most probably an application taking up too many resources. Up goes the task manager to have a look under the hood – nothing strange located in the default list. You click on “Show processes from all users” > accept the UAC warning > and up comes a super long list […]