August 25, 2009
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Today’s Internet report is Green in the European Union, Yellow in North America but still Red in the Pan-Pacific countries and Israel. In the U.S., Facebook and Twitter are still under siege from the Windows-based Katrina Storm botnet. Google, however, … Continue reading
August 19, 2009
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It’s hard to believe that people will actually believe the new NSS Labs report that claims Internet Explorer is safer than other Web browsers at blocking “Socially Engineered Malware” (PDF Link), but I have to remind myself of two things. … Continue reading
August 18, 2009
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I’ve long recommended to my Windows using friends who wanted a free or inexpensive A/V (anti-viral) program that they use AVG Technologies’ AVG Free or AVG Internet Security. I licensed multi-user copies myself for my Windows networks. That was then. … Continue reading
August 14, 2009
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Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don’t know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy friend of mine recently … Continue reading
August 13, 2009
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My colleague Preston Gralla came up with seven reasons to move to Windows 7. And, they are pretty good, but good enough to switch away from XP, or to skip Mac OS X Snow Leopard or desktop Linux? I don’t … Continue reading
August 10, 2009
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After last week’s near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here’s how we can do it. Or, at the very least, force … Continue reading