Friday, April 12, 2013

IT'S FRIDAY!!








Yep, TGIF et. all, it's time to look at what, if anything is going on today regarding security. Well yes, apparently Microsoft released a really buggy patch this week and is attempting to fix it.

“We’ve determined that the update, when paired with certain third-party software, can cause system errors,” wrote Dustin Childs, a group manager in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing division, on a company blog. “As a precaution, we stopped pushing 2823324 as an update when we began investigating the error reports and have since removed it from the download center.”

Microsoft published instructions for how to uninstall the security update as well. Read the full article HERE.

BING? GOOGLE? WHICH, WHAT, WHY?

An anti-virus research firm in Germany has said that, after some study, they found Google searches 5 times safer than Microsoft's "BING".

'According to the study, out of 20 million websites provided by Google and Bing in equal part, 272 Google results contained malware, while Bing delivered almost five times as many infected websites: 1285 poisoned pages'

Read the full article at the link ----> HERE.

'Nuff Said (and have a virus-free weekend),
Brian

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