Users must update to version 8.9.6.1. Don Ho, creator and maintainer of Notepad++, fixed three vulnerabilities in version 8.9.6.1. Two of them allow attackers to tamper with the text editor’s ...

There is a security vulnerability in LibreOffice that attackers can abuse with manipulated links in documents. This allows them to call up executable files under Windows and potentially cause damage.

The differences between the Professional and Home editions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 are rather subtle. But one tool that is missing from the Home version is the Group Policy Editor (Gpedit). This ...

If you needed another reason to keep your installation of venerable decompression app WinRAR updated, Google's Threat Analysis Group says it has spotted a vulnerability patched in August being ...

Cybersecurity company Metabase Q has documented a new malware family targeting ATMs in Latin America. Dubbed FiXS and containing Russian metadata, the threat is currently targeting banks in Mexico, ...

I am using Sys_ShellExecute to print PDFs and cannot reliably change the destination printer using Sys_SetDefPrinter. It seems (most of the time) that the first printer I select is recognized, but if ...

Occasionally I am getting a hard crash when executing ocdimg.exe with ShellExecute and console output display enabled. When it crashes it always happens at the end of the ISO build and produces an ...

This issue involves how ShellExecute handles strings that appear to be legitimate URLs, but are malformed such that they result in execution of arbitrary code. Various technologies use ShellExecute to ...

You don't, ShellExecute doesn't have the functionality you want. You could use ShellExecuteEx asking for the process handle return and polling until that process terminates if you wanted.