Quoted from a post at the Office Weblog concerning that study about home users and the lack of internet security tools in use. [quote]Do a friend or family member a favor and help them secure their PC with the free tools available to prevent virus and spyware attacks.[/quote] Something to think about as we head…
Don’t remember if I’ve talked about this newsletter lately, but here are a few links that I will be looking at in more detail later from the latest issue of Tech Support Alert: Anti-Trojan Software Reviews ChimeNote -an alternative to emailing yourself reminders to/from different email accounts. Free Linux Desktop Guide for Non-Linux Users Qwik-Fix…
Today should be the first time since I’ve updated the handful of XP machines in the office that automatic updates will come into play with Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins coming late yesterday. They’re set to notify the end user that new updates are avaialble. That setting was a guess at what would work best, if…
JR did a nice job of describing how easy it was to install the security patch for Firefox, so I won’t try and repeat what he said, but I do have some additional comments. This is exciting. This is the way a browser should update. This changes a lot for Firefox. I don’t know how…
I bit the bullet and installed SP2 over lunch today, since I had to work through my lunch hour anyway. (Long story) Everything went well, and nothing really came across as “broken” in any major way. I had to re-enable the Messenger Service, since I do use “net send” across our internal network quite often….
Look, I’m not the only one, Scoble gets the same questions: “By the way, I got called just last night by a family member asking me to help him clean off his system. It’s also the number one thing that I get asked in airplanes (how do you clean up a system that’s getting pop…