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Hiren's BootCD PE is basically a Swiss Army knife for broken Windows PCs

A tiny bootable toolkit that revives dead Windows PCs, recovers files, resets passwords, and fixes disasters without ...

How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system ...
WeLiveSecurity

LongNosedGoblin tries to sniff out governmental affairs in Southeast Asia and Japan

ESET researchers discovered a China-aligned APT group, LongNosedGoblin, which uses Group Policy to deploy cyberespionage ...
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Hackers hiding malware in OneNote—Files to avoid opening

ThioJoe warns that hackers are hiding malware inside OneNote files and why you shouldn’t click them. Donald Trump issues new warning on looming Supreme Court decision Teens arrested in viral 'door ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
Gizmochina

Updated ClickFix malware impersonates Windows update to steal your passwords, browser cookies, banking logins

A sneaky new strain of the ClickFix malware is making the rounds, and it’s going after the easiest victim of all: anyone who trusts a Windows update prompt. Security researchers at Huntress say the ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's plan to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 backfires: double the RAM, still slow

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...
PC World

Watch out for this fake ‘Windows Update’ malware scam that’s going around

Security researchers from Huntress are warning the public about a new variant of ClickFix, one of the most popular scam methods right now. In this variant, you’re hit with a full-screen browser page ...
TechSpot

Microsoft explains how Windows 11 will become an agentic OS whether you like it or not

WTF?! Many people thought Microsoft's idea for an "agentic OS," as introduced a few days ago, was more of a futuristic notion than a production-ready system ready for integration. Today, the company ...
Kotaku

Microsoft Warns That Windows 11 AI Might Install Malware On Your PC

Microsoft’s push to make Windows 11 a fully AI PC operating system continues, with the company planning to roll out new AI agents that can complete tasks and make changes on your behalf. But the ...
PC Gamer

Apparently Windows 11 becoming 'agentic AI' means letting the bots rummage through some of your files

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A few days ago we reported that the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft said "Windows ...
IEEE

Increasing the Accuracy of Malware Detection in PE Files Using Advanced Machine-Learning Techniques

This work presents the design and implementation of a new malware detection system for Portable Executable (PE) files in the Windows operating system using machine learning methods. The system uses ...