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?
Confessions of a cyberchondriac -I could see this happening, people self diagnose all the time. With all that medical information online it’s a gold mine for people who do that! That being said, the last time I did a bunch of online medical research was in between an initial diagnosis by my doctor and an…
From the “things you shouldn’t really have to tell people, but, obviously, you do” department (From both sides of the job searching fence): If you’re going to put a help wanted ad in the newspaper that asks people to go to your website to apply for this position, make sure the website has been updated,…
So towards the end of last week, I wrote out and fully explained, in great detail, how MyDoom worked and what it meant when you got “bounce” messages claiming that you sent out a virus. (Or, in fact, what it didn’t mean, since they have no point.) This is at least the third time I…
Rogers Cadenhead seems to think so. I don’t seem to have anyone using the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro to grab my feed, and I don’t have Trillian Pro myself, since the free version more than meets my meager IM needs, so I’ve never seen this before. If you’re using Trillian Pro to read RSS,…
Looks like Robert’s brother, Alex, is blogging about his life as an IT Manager for a small law firm. Should be interesting stuff! As a small business IT guy myself, I can empathize with the headaches that switching from WordPerfect to Office 2003 are going to bring. Not so much in the technology, but in…