I discovered one more interesting blog for myself: Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting. At the same time, I noticed that Microsoft hires professionals who are good in low level staff – reverse engineering and debugging of complex solutions which requires knowledge of assembler language & advanced knowledge of undocumented internals of Windows. This, I [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2007
explorer.exe is in danger :)
Kaspersky (http://www.kaspersky.com/) recently released a signature update that treats explore.exe as a virus. This false signature may affect those people who set the option ‘delete virus’ ON – it let’s anvtivirus delete the suspicious binary from file system. I guess, it may cause unpredictable results, even if WFP (Windows File Protection) will try to recover [...]
NG tips document
Newsgroups tips doc has been published recently on my blog. I am pretty sure it will be useful for newbies who are going to use Microsoft newsgroups. For more details, please visit this link.
The case of Task Manager that does not kill
Quite long time ago, my friend Vadym Stetsiak described a bug of Task Manager, which allows to disallow (!) the killing of a process, if it’s name is lsass.exe. In order to test this bug, you can rename any executable file into lsass.exe, run it, and than try to kill it from Task Manager. You [...]
Windows XP SP3 RC is released
Standalone Update Package for Windows® XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate is avialable from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=75ED934C-8423-4386-AD98-36B124A720AA&displaylang=en
