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Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: windows - Recent Posts http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/windows Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: windows - Recent Posts en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:46:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php leofelix on "zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 & Vista cause critical system error" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6534#post-67791 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:38:01 +0000 leofelix 67791@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Only SMB 2 in Windows 7 is affected. Vista is not affected hotdoge3 on "zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 & Vista cause critical system error" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6534#post-67722 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:29:58 +0000 hotdoge3 67722@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10397759-245.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10397759-245.html</a> (November 13, 2009) The advisory suggests that customers block Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, ports 139 and 445 at the firewall, as a workaround until a patch is ready. Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 remotely crash a computer. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140858/Microsoft_confirms_first_Windows_7_zero_day_bug" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140858/Microsoft_confirms_first_Windows_7_zero_day_bug</a> Microsoft criticized the way Gaffi? handled the discovery. Windows is not that bad try Mac for bug's <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139465/Bugs_Fixes_Solving_Safari_cookie_problems" rel="nofollow">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139465/Bugs_Fixes_Solving_Safari_cookie_problems</a> Bugs & Fixes: Solving Safari cookie problems on new Snow Leopard <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/143286/2009/10/sldataloss.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.macworld.com/article/143286/2009/10/sldataloss.html</a> Since Snow Leopard’s release, a few users have reported a scary data loss incident related to using the Guest account. Basically, after upgrading to Snow Leopard with an existing Guest account in Leopard, these users logged into their Guest accounts, then back into their normal accounts, only to find all of their data gone—none of their files were there, all preferences were reset, and all programs acted like they were being launched for the first time ever. Terri218 on "zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 & Vista cause critical system error" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6534#post-67667 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:35:01 +0000 Terri218 67667@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I think my head just exploded. Txnnok on "zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 & Vista cause critical system error" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6534#post-67666 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:14:25 +0000 Txnnok 67666@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I think it got me earlier today. I was taking a nap and woke up to see my computer caught in endless set of loops. It looked as if it was trying to access a program, but was being denied or it was closing a program and it was being denied. It was strange. It kept popping up some sort of failed to execute or access, I was just waking up so was still foggy. I quickly hit control-alt-delete, but that didn't work so yank the power and rebooted. No virus after several scans- I guess I was invaded. bastar@#@# The strange thing is lots of shortcuts are missing, at least half, so half my programs arent showing although they there and working, except system mechanic. It took out system mechanic for what ever reason. I just thought of why I might be able to reset with iolos, I couldnt do it with windows. Thanks for the post hotdoge This is by far the the most useful one yet, guess cause it it affect me real time.lol Thanks any though txnnok ------------------------------------- Terri218, With all the technology getting a boost the hackers get a boost too. The programmers machines on the dark side on running faster and excuting code quicker. They infiltrate all of computers and just sit till needed and create a bot net. Which is millions of computers working at the same time. Which is way faster than than any super computer, not to mention that they can flood any server with request and shut it down. Those guys guys are getting faster and smarter and some work as teams. + imagine group after group of these popping week after. Or if just 10 guys took or 30 computers a week. Hotdoge could probably find the real stats and I bet they are way way higher, even with good guys fixing computers and people fixing their own. Terri218 on "zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 & Vista cause critical system error" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6534#post-67663 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:20:44 +0000 Terri218 67663@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Wasn't the whole point of changing to Windows 7 was to make it safer? hotdoge3 on "zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 & Vista cause critical system error" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6534#post-67662 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:11:44 +0000 hotdoge3 67662@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/13/microsoft-investigating-zero-day-windows-7-hole" rel="nofollow">http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/13/microsoft-investigating-zero-day-windows-7-hole</a> <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10346664-83.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10346664-83.html</a> zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 and Vista. The flaw in Windows 7 could allow an attack which would cause a critical system error, or "blue screen of death," according to researcher Laurent Gaffie. Gaffie wrote in his blog that the flaw lies in a Server Message Block 2 (SMB2) driver. "SRV2.SYS fails <a href="http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/2009/11/windows-7-server-2008r2-remote-kernel.html" rel="nofollow">http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/2009/11/windows-7-server-2008r2-remote-kernel.html</a> pavid on "Windows7's,UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples microsoft-fires-back" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6523#post-67621 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:40:51 +0000 pavid 67621@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Interesting reads!! Thanks for the links doggy. :) hotdoge3 on "Windows7's,UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples microsoft-fires-back" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6523#post-67599 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:50:43 +0000 hotdoge3 67599@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4825&tag=nl.e539" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4825&tag=nl.e539</a> Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples <a href="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/11/03/windows-7-vulnerable-8-10-viruses/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/11/03/windows-7-vulnerable-8-10-viruses/</a> <a href="http://blog.threatfire.com/2009/10/malware-attacks-on-windows-7.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.threatfire.com/2009/10/malware-attacks-on-windows-7.html</a> <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2517" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2517</a> <a href="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/08/25/windows-7-security-myths-wiredcom/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/08/25/windows-7-security-myths-wiredcom/</a> <a href="http://windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott/article/articleid/103117/microsoft-fires-back-at-deceptive-windows-7-claims-by-sophos.html" rel="nofollow">http://windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott/article/articleid/103117/microsoft-fires-back-at-deceptive-windows-7-claims-by-sophos.html</a> andet1 on "Giveaway Alternatives" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/723#post-66293 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:52:23 +0000 andet1 66293@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ winx dvd author free until 10/31/2009 <a href="http://www.winxdvd.com/specialoffer/oct09.htm">http://www.winxdvd.com/specialoffer/oct09.htm</a> hotdoge3 on "Microsoft "in-place" upgrades Windows Vista to the new Windindows 7 > 20 H's" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6275#post-65211 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:33:04 +0000 hotdoge3 65211@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ well he did said on it's 650GB of data that is big my 3.1 hard-disk is only 40 MB The best that users can hope for is a 1 hour and 24 minute, The medium user profile, for example, assumed 70GB of data and 20 applications; the super user profile, on the other hand, contained 650GB of data and 40 applications. Clean installs, on the other hand, were much faster Khai on "Microsoft "in-place" upgrades Windows Vista to the new Windindows 7 > 20 H's" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6275#post-65100 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:38:26 +0000 Khai 65100@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ you'll find that article was 'cherry picked' for the sensational aspect. the 20 hours quoted was for a system with a HUGE amount of data and represented the 'worst' case for doing that kind of upgrade... tho the journo that wrote the article did'nt point that out. hotdoge3 on "Microsoft "in-place" upgrades Windows Vista to the new Windindows 7 > 20 H's" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6275#post-65099 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:59:08 +0000 hotdoge3 65099@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/171897/windows_7_upgrades_block_out_a_day.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g26:r49:c0.000234:b27713386:z0" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcworld.com/article/171897/windows_7_upgrades_block_out_a_day.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g26:r49:c0.000234:b27713386:z0</a> Microsoft said that some "in-place" upgrades from Windows Vista to the new Windows 7 may take some users more than 20 hours to complete. thenameipicked on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64973 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:21:19 +0000 thenameipicked 64973@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ My personal favorites calendar is 30 Boxes and Calgoo Calendar. 30 Boxes is a quick website that is clean and is simply a bookmark on my page (Can remind by email, and grab birthdays from facebook). Calgoo is an actual app that can remind me to do stuff, AND it can grab everything that is on my 30 Boxes and/or Google Calendar automatically notblocklox on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64972 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:15:55 +0000 notblocklox 64972@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=reminderfox&cat=all">ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo's. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, ...</a> I have totally forgotten that reminderfox is still running on my system. It's an addon for firefox. Dragonlair on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64964 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:48:06 +0000 Dragonlair 64964@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ AlexSJ, Does it have to be actively loaded to be able to give the reminders? AlexSJ on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64955 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:40:52 +0000 AlexSJ 64955@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hello Dragonlair: You might want to take a look at Exstora. They have a freeware version that works just fine. The link is a little hidden away, but I'm sure you can find it. Pura vida, AlexSJ Dragonlair on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64946 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:30:39 +0000 Dragonlair 64946@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ OK, I downloaded and installed Sunbird. I imported my calendar from Windows Calendar. Now - how do I get it to remind me without me explicitly opening up the calendar? Windows Calendar used to just Ping! pop up with a reminder of the event without me explicitly opening up the app. Now it won't do that and Sunbird didn't either! Dragonlair on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64945 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:22:04 +0000 Dragonlair 64945@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Thanks, all. I think I'll give Sunbird a try. I like FF so I consider it my best bet at this point. Even if I get Calendar working again, it may be a good idea to keep. Diane davee on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64944 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:40:10 +0000 davee 64944@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Evernote isn't a calendar; it's a note taking program. Some would no longer consider it freeware, but adware, since there is a prominently displayed and uncloseable ad box in the "free" version. Mozilla Sunbird (<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/</a>) is true freeware and EssentialPIM (<a href="http://www.essentialpim.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.essentialpim.com/</a>) has both paid and free versions. Both are good, full-featured calendar programs. notblocklox on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64943 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:24:13 +0000 notblocklox 64943@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Dragon did you ever try <a href="http://www.evernote.com/">evernote</a> ? It's not just a calendar, it organises everything and even some more and it is free now. It's too oversized for my life as retiree so I gave it up and can't give you more tips on it. In former times I used it when it still was a rather new programme. But I know that a lot of GOTD users were very excited the day we got it for free and will certainly give you some advice when you are interested. timelesslox Violet4714 on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64942 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:10:59 +0000 Violet4714 64942@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ how about Rainlendar?... here is the MajorGeeks page (you can get to the developers page from there as well): <a href="http://majorgeeks.com/Rainlendar_d5433.html" rel="nofollow">http://majorgeeks.com/Rainlendar_d5433.html</a> Terri218 on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64941 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:05:08 +0000 Terri218 64941@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I made a template for each month using Excel. Those files I save forever. Dragonlair on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64940 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:36:03 +0000 Dragonlair 64940@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Thanks for the idea, Terri but that's not a good solution for me. I want something that is stand-alone and does NOT rely on the internet. Comcast is not always the most stable ISP! Terri218 on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64937 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:27:45 +0000 Terri218 64937@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I use the calendar that is part of my Yahoo mail. It has always worked fine but I'm not sure how long it stays in memory. Dragonlair on "Any GOOD Free Calendar Replacements?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6255#post-64931 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:18:18 +0000 Dragonlair 64931@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I've been using Windows Calendar to let me know of such things as my scheduled Chats on my main board as well as birthdays and anniversaries. However, all of a sudden, the reminders have quit and I can't find out why! I'm working with Microsoft on the problem but so far, no luck. I'm beginning to wonder if I need to switch to another product but I have no idea what. I don't like to just search randomly for a product because so many sites are not safe. This groups seems to know just what is reputable and what isn't. Can you tell me where I can find a GOOD replacement that is also free? TIA Diane hotdoge3 on "What is knocking out my System Restore?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3774#post-42590 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:13:48 +0000 hotdoge3 42590@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Software yes Software Like the cleaner spyware scanner make new kill old spybot S & D will do this just tell it no & you be OK. sockeyeme on "What is knocking out my System Restore?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3774#post-42561 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:58:57 +0000 sockeyeme 42561@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ i have had a similar problem and the solution for me was to go to control panel-- system-- restore tag--and then turn off the monitoring of my extra hard drives so restore was only monitoring my main c drive then system restore works and go back and turn on monitoring for the extra drives hope this helps AlexSJ on "What is knocking out my System Restore?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3774#post-40897 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:14:58 +0000 AlexSJ 40897@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Check out Erunt. It's a little utility that will make a complete backup of your registry, every day at system start up and keeps a defined number of backups. If ever issues occur, it will let you go back to an earlier date. It's real easy to use. Pura vida AlexSJ Robert on "What is knocking out my System Restore?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3774#post-40862 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:47 +0000 Robert 40862@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Increasing the space in %-values in the monitored drives 'settings' tab might solve the problem. But ,some software installations may interfere with the files system restore relies upon also. It seems like every time system restore doesn't respond or hangs ,its SRP's are deleted. Quote: You run out of disk space on the system drive or on any one of the available non-system drives, and System Restore stops responding and stops monitoring your system. This behavior causes the system to delete all restore points in an attempt to free up disk space. However, you have probably already received a warning about running low in disk space prior to this point. In this case, when sufficient disk space is freed, System Restore starts to monitor the system again. At this point, it creates an automatic System Checkpoint. Note If you have a multiple-partition computer with a drive that has almost no free space, this drive may cause System Restore to stop responding all across the system and to delete restore points. However, this only occurs if you have reached the minimum disk space that is allowed and if you perform operations on monitored file types. Examples of such operations are upgrading, uninstalling or installing programs, moving, and deleting or renaming files. If your drive has almost no free space but you only perform operations on non-monitored files, System Restore does not stop responding Unquote BTW SRP's are set to be deleted after 90 days. goodgotd on "What is knocking out my System Restore?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3774#post-40859 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:41:15 +0000 goodgotd 40859@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ avast all by itself can be a pain in the performance department. copying digital pictures around the LAN turning it off is quite a difference. I too strongly recommend revo.