When Microsoft released the first major update for Windows 10 a week ago, there was a lot of confsion amongst users.
While the majority of users took to social networks and forums to find out how to update to Windows 10 Build 10586 without waiting for the Update to show up, there were those who had upgraded to the new version.
If you keep an eye on reddit, like I do, you may be aware that some users reported that the Windows 10 November Update removes a lot of applications, when the user tries upgrading to the new build. And no, we are not talking about clean installs here. Instead, the one we are looking at is the “Keep Personal Files” option, which [...]
Antivirus vendor, ESET, has announced that it has fixed a critical security vulnerability reported by Google’s Project Zero.
The Mountain View company’s team, reported the vulnerability to the security firm yesterday, but ESET had already fixed it a day before.
The exploit was discovered by Google Engineer, Tavis Ormandy of the Google Project Zero team. The exploit found in ESET was a serious one, in its scanning engine’s emulation process. This reportedly compromised a system’s security. An attacker could remotely execute a malicious code in the emulated environment, to take control of the system, without the user being aware of the [...]