Windows7 – How to Install MS Security Essentials – and Warning: Watch for ScareWare
Updated: 2010-02-28 18:13:50
The Malware program, Security Essentials 2010, is the Trojan:Win32/Fakeinit, that infects Windows PCs, and, on the contrary it does not remove malware. In fact it truly is scareware because it not only installs the fake scanner component, then it also monitors other running processes and it attempts to terminate the ones it doesn’t like. So your malware prevention programs could be turned off.
Installing software is always a chore, especially if you’ve recently installed a new version of Windows (or reinstalled). Now a new service called Ninite aims to take some of the pain out of the process, with free software at least. What this service does is creates a custom installer for you that will automatically install the [...]
Intel and Microsoft worked closely together when Microsoft were building Windows 7, but there is still a lot of heavy lifting involved before migrating PCs to the new OS inside Intel’s environment, wrote Intel staff engineer Roy Ubry in a blog entry. Because Intel is such a big corporation with countless software programs and who knows what [...]
When Microsoft launched their new Windows Phone 7 Series OS a couple of weeks ago they managed to pull off something they’ve never achieved in the mobile market space, creating a buzz that’s still being talked about. There can be no doubting that this new mobile operating system is radically different to everything we’ve seen before. [...]
Come March 1, MultiPoint Server 2010 will be rolling out to Microsoft academic volume licensing customers. In addition, new partnerships will be created with hardware manufacturing companies that create an ecosystem that give customers a variety of choices to buy and use Windows MultiPoint Server solutions.
I’ll be comparing to a Mac the things that, I believe, Windows has done right, because Mac is well-known and very respected in the OS field. This doesn’t mean that I think Mac’s are useless or rough to use, but Windows 7 has done some things right and I’d like to point them out. (Warning: The following is opinionated) I [...]
After months of investigation, Microsoft filed an injunction on February 22, 2010 to ask that the Waledac Botnet be prevented from operating. The case was Microsoft Corporation v. John Does, heard in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia. Following a hearing, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order thereby cutting off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by the Waledac bot.
Don't know your RAM from your hard drive? Struggling to understand our articles on backup and particularly full disk backup? This page will help you understand the concepts a little better.
A while back I posted an article about the level of piracy among people installing Windows 7 in countries such as Russia and India, which you can read here. Then just a couple of days later Microsoft announced plans to release a new update to help combat pirates and people running illegal copies of Windows 7. That update, [...]
The ability to connect from Windows to Linux is all you need to make administrating from a central location much easier. Jack Wallen explains.
Yesterday I published the article Why Windows 7 search is the way it is, and what lies ahead, in which Dan Plastina, the group manager for the Find and Organise features within the Windows 7 beta explained why the search, organisation and library features in Microsoft’s latest operating system turned out the way they did. Despite [...]
We know that Windows 7 is popular and as we can tell from it’s month on month increase in market share it’s not showing any signs of letting up. Well I bet you wouldn’t be surprised if I told you that for the first 5 months of its release, it now holds double the market [...]
In this edition of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to change Windows 7's Logon screen wallpaper.
Disk imaging, or bare metal recovery software packages can protect your precious data from hard drive failures
or human error. In this extensive backup software review and test article, we put five such programs to the test.
In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the two children leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way out of the forest. Unfortunately, in the story the breadcrumbs were eaten by birds, thus making this a less-than-ideal navigational aid. In their first foray into the forest they used white pebbles, certainly a [...]
A year ago, before I joined Windows 7 News, I published an article entitled “Windows 7 and the Death of Search” in which I criticised the new search facility in the then forthcoming Windows 7. There are a great many reasons why this new way of searching came about, and why Microsoft changed it from [...]
Which is the Best Windows 7 Media Player? Part 1 This is sort of like a part two to my previous write-up about the best options for media in Windows 7. Some users took the time to add their favorite choices in the comments, so I decided to give their choices a little justice, download them [...]
In January 2010, Mark Kaelin polled TechRepublic members about their thoughts on tablet or slate PCs, here are the results.
Microsoft announced its plans for the Windows Mobile 7 phone market. It looks like Microsoft may have everything going for it on the technology front. The OS features look good, but, and here is the catch, its success will depend on a lot of unknowns. Some of these unknowns are under its own control like device selection and pricing to app availability and carrier distribution. But it will not ship until December, which in today's mobile market might well mean that it will be out of touch for a while. 
The European Commission has given Microsoft and Yahoo! the go ahead to to implement the search partnership. Microsoft will work with Yahoo!; the same search result listings that are available through Bing, will be provided to Yahoo!. In the meantime Yahoo! will take those listings and will innovate around them by integrating their own content. 
The news about the Windows browser ballot screen yesterday wasn’t the only ballot news appearing from Redmond. Neowin have obtained an image of the forthcoming file-format ballot coming with Office 2010.This screen will pop-up for the new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to give users a choice of whether they want to save files [...]
Windows Search provides you with several different ways to find files and folders. The method you can use varies according to the situation. If you wish to perform a General Search a good place to start is using the Search box in the Start menu. Another place where you can search for more specific files, such [...]
The browser ballot screen debacle began as a complaint by the makers of the hugely unpopular Opera browser to the EU about the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. This followed on from similar complaints about the bundling of Windows Media Player and it’s sure to rumble on in a variety of ways in the [...]
The TaskList utility provides details on the services and DLL modules related to running processes. This free Vista/Windows 7 gadget does the same job -- but without the command-line headaches.
Microsoft has finally revealed the finished EU Browser Ballot Screen, and it’s set to begin rolling out next week. Microsoft came under fire last year from the EU about shipping Windows 7 with Internet Explorer pre installed. They had threatened to ship Windows 7 without a browser at all, but then came to their senses [...]
You know the old adage, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Well, that’s kind of how I feel about Windows 7. Sure, there are things I want added and features that Microsoft could and should have added into Windows 7, but it seems like they finally got it right. The security is very good, [...]
No doubt by now you know how useful Search is for finding files on your computer but did you know you can also use it for other tasks? Besides searching for missing files, Search also provides you with the quickest way to:Open an application Find information Access Windows 7’s TroubleshootersHere are just a few additional uses of [...]
Greg Shultz shows you how to customize Windows 7's Windows Explorer so you can set it up to meet your specific productivity needs.
By bringing the functionality of AD LDS to Windows7, Microsoft has improved the active directory operation by focusing the services to the applications that need it without the overhead of domain controller services.
Each time you search for files in Windows Explorer, Windows 7 stores the individual search query in its history. So, when you open Search, you will find all your previous searches listed. Now this may not matter for some users, but others may find this a distraction, and would prefer to start “fresh”. If you’re anything like [...]
In typical Microsoft fashion, they announced their prices for Office 2010 in the UK this morning. The prices were announced, and then just for good measure, Microsoft decided to bump them up an extra £30. Their reasoning?, a technical error….. So the prices for Microsoft Office 2010 are as follows: Home and Student – £110 (£90 for [...]
Yadis! Backup divides backup jobs into tasks which can be configured to perform either local or ftp backup, but it also runs backups in real time.
The unveiling of the long-awaited Windows Phone 7 Series OS (long name) brought a huge sigh of relief for Microsoft as it has generally been accepted as a step in the right direction. It only took Microsoft until 2010 to realize that the smartphone phone lacks the screen real estate to be effective as a Windows desktop [...]
IE9 is set to deliver better support for modern web standards, including HTML5, increased performance, especially when it comes down to JavaScript, and support for hardware acceleration. 
Yesterday I wrote about how Microsoft now have an opportunity to bring all of their platforms and services together to form a seamless interconnectedness that would not only make life considerably simpler for millions of people, but that could also turn around the company’s fortunes. The Zune software, on the PC and the Zune HD has [...]
In Windows 7’s Library there are five folders – Documents, Download, Music, Pictures and Videos. Each hold their own special files. For example, the Pictures folder is normally where all pictures files are saved. When you click the Search Box in any of these windows, a drop-down menu appears displaying its filters highlighted in blue. The [...]
This issue doesn’t seem to be as prominent among users with Windows 7 as it was when Windows Vista was first released. When Windows Vista was released, it was built using a different code structure to that which Windows XP was built. Windows XP had been around for 5 years before Windows Vista was released [...]
Microsoft has provided a way to test drive a function version of Windows 7 Professional from a website VLabCenter. By running this version a user who has questions about the operation of Windows 7, and whether it is worth buying or using can have some experience with it to help answer that question.
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled a quite remarkable product, and one that’s certainly taken the tech-world by surprise, a fully-featured new smart phone OS that appears to have every angle covered. This is quite an achievement, especially when you consider what type of company Microsoft is. As it’s such a behemoth there are a huge number of very [...]
Applications have traditionally been written to address the memory space available to a 32-bit processor, but reaches the maximum limit 4GB. Now there is an increase in sales of 64 bit Windows7 OS, to go with the increase in the use of 64 bit CPU. 
In addition to Mike’s great coverage of Microsoft’s Mobile 7 Series, which you can find here. I also found a video of the demonstration from BBC news, which can be viewed here.Also, for more information and an internet demo of the phone and the new software, visit Microsoft’s Mobile site, here. Engadget also has a hands on article of [...]
At a press event in Barcelona, Spain at the World Mobile Congress event, Microsoft have unveiled the new Windows Phone 7 Series, and it’s very different from any version of Windows Mobile that’s come before it. Full multi-touch is supported including pinch-zoom and the whole UI, from what we’ve seen so far, looks to have been [...]
In December 2009, Mark Kaelin polled TechRepublic members about their plans for Microsoft Windows 7, here are the results.
The other day, a friend of mine was using a wired internet connection on his Macbook. I had my iPod Touch with me and needed to access some info on the internet but alas there was no wireless network. However, the Mac came to my rescue and with just 2 or 3 clicks my friend [...]
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, may present to the world a sneak peek of Windows Mobile 7. Many rumors abound about what will be available, including whether a Zune like Mobile phone will be developed; whether a social phone product called Pink will be developed for teens.
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