They're Listening To Your Cellphone Last month CNN warned of malware that is circulating that can be used to spy on you through your cellphone. Almost always installed without the user's knowledge, snoopware can be... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
June 09, 2007
Microsoft's IIS Makes Malware Authors Happy Google's Online Security Blog claims that Microsoft IIS servers are more than twice as likely to be used to deliver malware to visitors. We examined about 70,000 domains that over... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
May 03, 2007
Dell Offering Ubuntu? Too Little, Too Late? InfoWorld reports that Dell will begin offering Ubuntu preinstalled on some of its computers in place of Windows. But is this move too little, too late? All the PC OEMs... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
February 27, 2007
Microsoft: You might be a pirate Microsoft has released an update to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA,) an anti-piracy tool Microsoft requires be installed to download updates from the company. The update flags installations of Windows as... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
The Microsoft Protection Racket John C. Dvorak's latest column, The Microsoft Protection Racket is a must read. Excerpt: Microsoft has stayed away from the antivirus, antispyware game for a long time because it knew... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 17, 2005
Avoid the Dell Hell I've blogged about my poor experiences with Dell a few times in the past but don't just take my words for it. You really MUST read Jeff Jarvis' Dell Hell... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
February 22, 2005
The Dummies* Guide to Podcasting After being constantly harassed to explain podcasting to friends and others I'd figured I could write a post explaining the concept and include instructions and links to everything to get... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
January 12, 2004
Change your passwords! If you have been using the same password on every web store, every community, and web site that requires registration you might think you're making your life less complicated by... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
January 11, 2004
Rich and Famous Gaming Laptops For MUCH Less A couple weeks ago I wrote about L's Computers For The Rich and Famous and mentioned the 17" Hollywood Extreme that my friend ordered. Well, I borrowed his earlier this... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
December 18, 2003
More New Google Features Google quietly introduced a few new features this month. I think the most useful of these is the Search By Numbers feature. With it you can enter a UPS or... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
December 10, 2003
Computers For The Rich and Famous If you are serious about computers and gaming then you will have to spend some time alone with the web site I'm about to show you. Seriously. I've passed on... Read More | 2 Comments | 2 Trackbacks
December 09, 2003
Can Spam Act of 2003 The U.S. House of Representatives approved Congress' final version of the Can Spam Act of 2003, sending the landmark anti-spam legislation to the White House for President Bush's promised signature.... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
October 08, 2003
The latest fad August was the month of the worms. September was the month of the Spam-Worms. October could easily be the month of IE Exploits. It seems the new trend is to... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
September 19, 2003
Computer Makers Sued Over Hard-Drive Size Claims A group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's biggest makers of personal computers, claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
September 12, 2003
Disable the Windows DCOM/RPC Remote Once And For All I've been talking about the problems with Window's DCOM remote for a while. Microsoft has just recently released another update (their third!) to fix this service but unfortunately its still... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 30, 2003
The rush to air a story It is scary and sad how easily the Media is spoon-fed information and they take that information as fact without questioning it. Take the case of Jeff Parson (Teekid), he... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 15, 2003
Worm Fall Out Despite making calls, sending emails and IMs to close friends and family, and posting several warnings about the Windows DCOM/RPC Remote Exploitation and the MSBlaster Worm on this blog, I'm... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 12, 2003
MSBlaster Worm The Windows DCOM/RPC Remote Exploitation worm in the press, MSBlaster, doesn't appear to be the RedBull worm I mentioned last week. It is very trivial and doesn't do any damage... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 07, 2003
Windows DCOM/RPC Remote Exploitation Last week I mentioned that significant holes have been found in all versions of windows and recommend some ways you can protect yourself from having them exploited. There are now... Read More | 0 Comments | 1 Trackbacks
August 01, 2003
Attention Windows Users: If you want to keep all your data this summer then you need to do a few things right now and also change your behavior in the future. Over the... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
February 21, 2003
Block Web Ads With Host File I was reading my subscription to PC Magazine this morning and came across an article on Blocking Web Ads using the windows host file (you can find an online version... Read More | 3 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
December 14, 2002
Unprotected systems will be our downfall Now more than ever we need to be concerned with keeping our anti-virus definitions and security updates up to date. ComputerWorld's recent story, War with Iraq will mean virus outbreak,... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
November 07, 2002
Desktop software in your hand If you really love me, you'll buy me this. 300 MHz Pentium-class National Geode, 256 MB of SDRAM, 20 GB hard disk drive, 4.0" 640 x 480 TFT (18-bit... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
October 04, 2002
Smarter Than The Average Bear So if you are living under a rock you might not heard about the W32/Bugbear@MM virus. It's notable because of the high number of ways it can infect systems and... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
September 15, 2002
Warchalking No these alien like symbols appearing around cities on the sides of buildings and on the backs of street signs weren't left by space aliens or juveniles as gang... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
September 14, 2002
WinXP SP1 For months now many IT security professionals known about a file in Windows XP that could be exploited to deleted files. The exploit and source code remained relatively secret and... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
September 04, 2002
WindowsXP SP1 Known Issues Considering installing the WindowsXP Service Pack 1? You might want to read through the known issues first. :eek... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
August 06, 2002
FBI issues warning and nothing happens The FBI issued a warning last night that we'd face major series of electronic attacks throughout the day. The attacks focused on some ISPs and a few web sites however... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
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