I had just woken this morning when I encountered my first surprise of the day: I had received a pleasant mail from Microsoft telling me that the password of my Skype had been successfully reset.  At first I thought it was some sort of a bad joke, maybe a kind of phishing attempt but after analyzing the mail header and checking my Skype account it appeared to be true. Here is a copy of the original email (Sorry it is in French):   As...

If you use Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to protect your computer against all sorts of malware you might wonder why this program doesn’t update when new sets of malware definitions have been released. Normally you would expect that an antivirus program updates almost immediately when new definitions are released. MSE doesn’t work that way because Microsoft has decided to merge MSE Update with Microsoft Update. Which means your...