Windows Server team Blog

By Gianugo Rabellino
Senior Director Open Source Communities
Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Scareware, a type of malware that mimics antimalware software, has been around for a decade and shows no sign of going away. The goal of scareware is to fool a user into thinking that their computer is heavily infected with malware and the most convenient...(read more)

Have you ever wondered how Windows knows you’re connected to the Internet? You may have noticed the over the network icon by the clock, have you ever wondered what happens in the background? This blog aims to find answers to these and related questions...(read more)

Sergio Medina here, and today I want to talk about a question we receive every now and then and explain what the solution is just in case some of you run into a similar issue. You could hit this issue when publishing an internal webserver that accepts only the username as a valid format. For example, when your web server is configured this way, if you try to log in directly to it using ‘DOMAIN\user’ as the format for the username you receive an error, however if you only include the ‘user’ part of the name in the user field, and provide a valid password of course, you log in successfully.

As you may know, there is a known security vulnerability for the authentication method MS-CHAPv2.

ZoomIt v4.41: This update fixes a bug in ZoomIt v4.4 that prevented it from running on 32-bit Windows XP.