1. French switch from Windows
(Forum/AntiVirus)

'The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. But these will progressively change over to the Linux system distributed by Ubuntu, explained Colonel Nicolas

2. Prefetching
(Top/Maintain)

...t is that directory actually for? Well, to explain that, we'll have to explain a little about how modern operating systems work. All modern OSes use a form of memory management called 'paging&...

3. GNOME Evolution Vulnerability
(News/CERT)

...strators who compile Evolution from source should refer to GNOME Bug ID 520745; others should refer to their operating system vendor for updated software.US-CERT will provide more information as it be...

4. VMware Releases Security Alert
(News/CERT)

...ulnerability exists in the host-to-guest shared folders feature and allows applications running in the guest operating system to access the host operating system's file system. Exploitation of this vu...

5. Cisco Releases Security Advisories to Address Vulnerabilities in PIX, ASA, and AVS
(News/CERT)

...VS could allow an attacker to gain full administrative rights to the system or user-level access to the host operating system.More information about these vulnerabilities is located in the following C...

6. Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for January Security Bulletin
(News/CERT)

...h have a severity rating of Critical. The notification states that both of the bulletins are for the Windows operating system. The release is scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, 2008.US-CERT will provid...

7. Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for December Security Bulletin
(News/CERT)

... a severity rating of Critical.  The notification further states that the bulletins are for the Windows operating system, various Windows operating system components and Internet Explorer.  ...

8. Prevention
(Top/Antivirus)

...us software cleanly, and you will be forced to reinstall some software, but that's certainly better than operating with an infection, which could cause random data lossage at any point in time. ...

9. Compressing files
(Top/Maintain)

For a while, compressing files on disk was really popular, so popular that Microsoft built it into every operating system since MS-DOS 6.2. Basically, CPU time had outpaced disk size, so spending the

10. Security Center
(Top/Maintain)

...e has disabled automatic updating, or set it where you can do it manually. Obviously, we don't recommend operating with automatic updates totally off, but we don't even recommend you setting t...