Story of a hijack -real life spyware story.
The clueless users who refuse to upgrade -interesting article, but if Microsoft really were to quit supporting older software wouldn’t the howls of “forced upgrading” be ten times louder than this?
Maybe I should get some of these and make everyone hang them in their offices?
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Had a rather productive weekend. Finally got around to getting the license and install of VMWare that was part of my Christmas gift this year. Did a quick Red Hat install to make sure everything was working properly. Now I need to purchase some more RAM for the machine it’s running on at home. The…
Just put up pictures from the weekend in Dayton on Finnegan’s blog. We had a good time checking out both the Air Force Museum and the Egyptian exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute. The week got off to a crazy start after that though. We have 3 helpdesk people and aside from taking all the…
Per MarcV’s request in the comments for that last post. Here’s a brief description of what I’m using OneNote for. I’ll break it down into two sections, because I use my official work copy on my desktop at work, and my free “thanks for beta testing and attending the rollout event” copy on my personal…
Yeah it’s time to crack open the case on that laptop and replace the hard drive. It occurs to me that of all the HD replacements I’ve done over the last few years of working here, this will be the first time I’ve done one on a laptop. That’ll be something new and interesting to…
The other day I saw a PC that had been completely overrun with trojans, virii, and spyware. I won’t say where I saw this particular PC, but suffice it to say it had all the appropriate software installed originally to keep this from happening. However, after cleaning up the trojan that had the AV disabled,…
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