Bad fail for Dell. They forgot to renew an Internet domain used for data recovery. A squatter grabbed the domain and immediately started delivering malware. It took Dell a month to get the domain back in control.
[German]The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) issued a groundbreaking ruling on recycling toner cartridges. The printer company Canon had filed a patent infringement suit against the German printer cartridge manufacturers wta Carsten Weser GmbH and KMP PrintTechnik AG. The Canon lawsuit was finally dismissed – and may be valid within the European Union (EU).
[German]Urgent warning to all administrators in corporate environments. Eastern Europe has been hit by an outbreak of BadRabbit ransomware campaign. Affected are Windows systems and networks in corporate environments. It's similar to the NotPetya infection in early summer this year. Possibly a Killswitch has been found.
[German]It seems that the newly released Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (V1709) threatens us with bugs a hell. Even Explorer contains a bug that prevents renaming files or folders.
[German]Within this blog post, I would like to discuss two observations about system protection. After a Windows 10 install, the system protection is turned off. And it seems, that there are cases, where the computer protection might be activated by itself. This behavior makes System Restore a lottery game.
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[German]Microsoft releases a collection of feature on demand updates before the rollout of the Windows 10 Fall Creator Update. But what are feature on demand updates?
[German]Users upgrading to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update may facing a problem: On some machines apps are missing in start menu. I'm affected on two of my test machines. Now it seems that Microsoft acknowledged this issue and provided some workarounds.
[German]If you have a Razer gaming notebook, don't update to Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), because you probably will run into serious issues.
[German]For owners of a Lenovo notebook it may be useful to know, if the device is compatible with Windows 10 Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update).
[German]Another small addendum to the weekend. Microsoft's developers in Redmond has been busy this week and released two updates for the store app. One update fixes the bug preventing the Store app to work, and the second update brings the new Microsoft Store to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
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