I still think that the safest thing you can do about your Web browsing habits is to switch from IE (Internet Explorer) to Firefox or some other browser. But, if you’re wedded to IE 7 or 8 — please, please stop using IE 6–Microsoft has made a fix available for all versions of IE. If [...]
I’m just barely old enough to remember when people used to patch tires rather than just replace them when they had a flat. But you know why people don’t tend to do that anymore? It’s because a patched tire grew ever more likely to have a total blowout. Guess what? It’s not that different with [...]
I’ve always known that Internet Explorer was an insecure mess, but this latest attacks on Google and dozens of other companies has really opened my eyes to just how bad it really is. The latest zero-day flaw exists not just in bad old IE 6, but in every modern version of IE.
To be exact, according [...]
If you’re still running Windows 2000, then you need to update your PC or server right now with the latest Microsoft patch. That was it. The Windows problem this patch fixes exists in other versions of Windows, but there it can’t do much harm. But, at the same time, Microsoft admitted that the version of [...]
It’s Monday morning, everyone’s hammering the servers, and your customers want the information yesterday. Part of the remote branch IT blues is that it can be darn hard to get quick access to the data stored at the company’s central office when you need it Right Now.
With Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has [...]