Reason #4712 Why I Hate Windows Apparently Microsoft is now rebooting Windows XP after applying Automatic Updates without asking if it's okay to reboot. I thought this is why my machine rebooted last month but I... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
June 29, 2007
Huzzah! FolderShare Works On Macs Again My synchronizing problems are almost completely solved thanks to the guys at Microsoft's FolderShare. As I reported a few days ago they reached out to me to help resolve the... Read More | 1 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
June 26, 2007
A Solution To Mac Syncing Problems? An update to Friday's post, Synchronizing Macs Seems Impossible. I've received an email Monday from someone at Microsoft offering to help me resolve the issues I'm experiencing with FolderShare! I've... Read More | 2 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
June 18, 2007
Why am I still using Windows? Parallels is losing its luster for me. Well, actually, it's not so much Parallels. It's fracking Windows. I'm completely fed up with Windows and leaving it running just for mIRC.... Read More | 1 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 18, 2007
Best "Get A Mac" Ad Isn't On TV This Mac ad hasn't appeared on US TV, nor is it on the Apple's TV Ads page. Strange because it's the best one yet.... 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
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
Microsoft has purchased FolderShare You might recall that I blogged about FolderShare before and have recommended the service to everyone with multiple computers. Today I learned that Microsoft has purchased FolderShare and its now... Read More | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks
October 23, 2005
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
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 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
Oh Crap! Jeffery Zeldman has a very interesting and scary item on IE, Flash, and patents: here comes trouble. Besides paying over half a billion dollars to the patent holder, Microsoft is... Read More | 1 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 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
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
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 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
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