Microsoft Office 2010 knows there are Word-based macro viruses out there. It's so protective, in fact, it can be a bit annoying when you're trying to open Outlook attachments from co-workers. Tech ...

Windows Protected Mode is a feature of Internet Explorer that guards your computer from malicious software. Protected Mode was introduced with Windows Vista, and, as of the release of Windows 8, the ...

Microsoft has been helping Adobe develop a sandbox similar to the Protected View in Office 2010. Adobe Reader Protected Mode, a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft's Practical Windows Sandboxing ...

Microsoft's monthly "Patch Tuesday" event is happening today, and one of the updates that the company is releasing has been created for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1. As revealed in a new ...

(1) The native state of an Intel CPU, which provides access to all advanced memory management functions. It was introduced in 1982 with the 16-bit 286 chip, which was the first x86 chip to break the ...

Adobe has taken a step toward a more secure PDF with a preview of Adobe Acrobat DC Protected Mode. The preview is available to Windows users running Adobe Acrobat DC version 20.009.20063.281938 or ...

Last time we talked about how the original PC has a limit of 640 kB for your programs and 1 MB in total. But of course those restrictions chafed. People demanded more memory, and there were ...

Researchers have found a chink in Internet Explorer’s ‘protected mode’ security armour that hints at trouble for other Windows apps built around the technology, including Google’s Chrome and Adobe’s ...

A PC driver written for 32-bit Intel chips. Although 32 bits became available with the 386 in 1985, it took many years for drivers and applications to take advantage of the migration from 16 bits.

Security researchers from Eclypsium have detailed yesterday a new variation of the Spectre attack that can recover data stored inside a secure CPU area named the System Management Mode (SMM). For ...

The memory map of the original 8086 computer with its base and extended memory made the original PC rather straightforward, but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they tried to ...