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  2. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a discontinued software tool that is no longer available from Microsoft that determines security state by assessing missing security updates and less-secure security settings within Microsoft Windows, Windows components such as Internet Explorer, IIS web server, and products Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office macro settings.

  3. Malicious Software Removal Tool - Wikipedia

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    In a June 2006 Microsoft report, [2] the company claimed that the tool had removed 16 million instances of malicious software from 5.7 million of 270 million total unique Windows computers since its release in January 2005. The report also stated that, on average, the tool removes malicious software from 1 in every 311 computers on which it runs.

  4. Virtual PC - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP Mode is available free of charge to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. [36] Users of other editions of Windows 7 are not eligible to download and use it. [40] [43] This restriction does not apply to Windows Virtual PC itself. Windows XP Mode can also be run with VMware Player and VMware Workstation. However ...

  5. BitLocker - Wikipedia

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    In order for BitLocker to encrypt the volume holding the operating system, at least two NTFS-formatted volumes are required: one for the operating system (usually C:) and another with a minimum size of 100 MB, which remains unencrypted and boots the operating system. [37] (In case of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, however, the volume's ...

  6. Encrypting File System - Wikipedia

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    The Encrypting File System (EFS) on Microsoft Windows is a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS [1] that provides filesystem-level encryption. The technology enables files to be transparently encrypted to protect confidential data from attackers with physical access to the computer.

  7. Comparison of platform virtualization software - Wikipedia

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    Full system simulation with optional component virtualization Software development (early, embedded), advanced debug for single and multicore software, compiler and other tool development, computer architecture research, hobbyist Depends on target architecture (full and slow hardware emulation for guests incompatible with host) [citation needed]

  8. Backup and Restore - Wikipedia

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    Backup and Restore [1] (formerly Backup and Restore Center [2]) is the primary backup component of Windows Vista and Windows 7.It can create file and folder backups, as well as system images backups, to be used for recovery in the event of data corruption, hard disk drive failure, or malware infection.

  9. Microsoft Windows library files - Wikipedia

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    This functionality was removed from Windows Vista (and therefore later versions) to improve security and rid the operating system of generally unused functionality. [14] Scrap (.shs) files have been used by viruses because they can contain a wide variety of files (including executable code), and the file extension is not shown even when "Hide ...