It’s been a crazy week, as you all have read. Made none any less crazy by the fact that our Annual Meeting is coming up next week, which brings about it’s own flurry of activity that I haven’t even talked about on here. What do I take away from this week? The whole battle between…
If you’re a Linux zealot you probably don’t want to read this. Keep in mind that I would love for there to be a Linux desktop flavor that competes with Windows. In fact, I think in some ways they already do, but this is going to be about the one area where they just don’t…
As Dana pointed out, this is an interesting article about Microsoft adding a built-in virus scanner to Windows XP SP2. I’m torn, obviously. On one hand, for all those home users who never seem to be able to use AV properly, maybe this isn’t such a bad thing. Although many still won’t remember to update…
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?
Chris was kind enough to leave me the link to info on the new MyDoom.B variant in the comments. Looks like this sucker will launch an attack at Microsoft instead of SCO, and will mess with your host file to try and keep you from getting AV updates. Nasty little bugger. Thanks Chris, it’s always…
I’ve got invoicing to do this morning, but these things in my aggregator need a further look: An IT Manager’s Insight into Mobile Security. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer version 1.2 is out. TV commercials come to the web. More crap, just what we need. PubSub.com -looks like an interesting concept, sort of like Google News…