Windows (ALL current editions) is vulnerable to a hack through it’s MIME HTML handling protocol. This vulnerability would allow malicious code to be run through Internet Explorer and through Opera . This is a variant of XSS (Cross Site Scripting). Firefox requires an add-on to read and write MHTML files. In it’s default configuration it is not vulnerable, Safari and Chrome are not either. Microsoft recommended that users lock down the MHTML protocol handler by runni...
This is a valuable tool to have from AVG, a trusted name in Security software. It sniffs out links with malware in them proactively before you navigate there. There are potential conflicts. While it's stated (see below) that Microsoft Security Essentials will conflict, on my computer it did not pose any problem at all. I think the conflict comes because of the toolbar. I did not install that. Furthermore, MSE updates flawlessly. During installation it offers to install an AVG Secu...
Microsoft Safety Brochure in a variety of formats Protecting your data and information has been the focus of several of my articles. I’ve recommended software, and various steps to take to do so. Microsoft has provided a really nice and easy to understand brochure with many links in it. It’s all of two ‘pages’ and steers clear of ‘jargon’. It's a really wothwhile read. Link to download the information: http://tinyurl.com/6zep7bv ...
This just in from The Windows Club : The full test reports can be found here . Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/bitdefender-tops-av-test-list-of-security-software-for-2010-q4#ixzz1CKb4CCyH
What could touch our hearts more than a child who’s ill? I’m sure we all have family and here, Uncle DisturbedComputer is “Family” to us all. I just read his post about his niece Brilee and thought we all could get together and sign our hopes and wishes for this beautiful little girl on a thread which her uncle could email or print and send her parents…. So please folks, add your hopes, well wishes and/or prayers for this little one to this thread. Doc says “Thank...
Recently I posted on Sticky Notes for Chrome browser . Well, good news! There’s a similar app for firefox. Internote allows you to create useful and private notes on webpages which will be there once you return. According to the extension download site, “With Internote, you can move, resize, recolor, minimize, import, export, print, delete your notes ... choose the pages where a note appears ... or manage them all at once.” So, is it secure? Yes, it is as you’r...
Norton’s put out a very powerful new tool for our armamentarium: Norton Power Eraser . It’s free, and you should probably have it onboard to be used only when all other methods of removing malware, viruses, root kits, trojans and other crimeware have failed. I installed it, and chose to scan for Rootkits as well, so it rebooted my system but gave ample time to save what I was working on (this article). The scan was very fast, and Power Eraser also presented a report ...
To an absolutely wonderful bunch of people without whom this site would not be what it is: “Home” away from home to us all. Today, 1/26/11 is being celebrated throughout Australia in commemoration of the landing of the first fleet in what is now Sydney Harbor (then Sydney Cove) not far from the base of the Sydney Harbor Bridge in 1788. starting a great endeavor which goes on to this day…. As an American, and a descendent of those who...
Windows Secrets is making a nice offer to go along with subscribing to their emailed newsletter. You get one chapter of “Windows 7 For Dummies” free. This month it’s a chapter that interests folks here at WC a good deal, “Fighting Viruses and Other Scum” (Chapter 5) as a free download. This chapter teaches how antivirus products work with your Operating System and how to use them. If you don’t like the site or the newsletter, you can al...
A camera used in crime scene documentation has been adapted to enable a video viewer to observe an event or scene choosing to observe it at any angle he or she desires. Simply Live (the company which developed it) has produced this video which I saw on "Arutz 7" (Israeli Channel 7 News) and thought you all might be interested in seeing: To read the article click on the external link, or here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143323 ...
Well, we’ve had a week or two to try out ie9, ff4 and Chrome10. Cnet.com (Seth Rosenblatt) has run some benchmarks on the three (Opera and Safari not included because they haven’t been updated recently) and the results have been published. Using Google’s benchmark, Chrome 10 came out a big winner, but they tailored their browser to that benchmark. Boot time didn’t fare as well. Using JSGamesbench, ff4 won and Kraken showed for ie9. FF4 should do much b...
Didn’t start getting into Fonts as part of customization, and I’m not sure why! Maybe Windows hardcoding… maybe ignorance. Anyway, I think Master Skinner Po’ Smedley mentioned this site… maybe it was in an email… not sure (a blessing of being old). Anyway, fonts are definitely part of art and an art in itself, even if there’s no Gallery (yet). Fontstruct.com is a free site which can help you get started with font building. Registration is definitely noninvasive, and ...
Google has announced Kansas City to be the test site for it’s 1 gig/sec Internet connection. While that’s fast , it’s not the fastest (China, for example). This vid illustrates (for me, at least) the biggest controversy in Internet services: Capping and Regulation. Superfast Internet is a welcome development for many reasons: Educational, entertainment, research, etc. While we have this incredible technology, it would seem we also have cou...
Came across this at Lifehacker and thought of youse guys and girls. If you have an old style keyboard of are a lazy booger like me, Volumouse2 (Nirsoft) is definitely for you. Volumouse is very customizable. You set the mouse function and under what conditions the wheel will act as the volume control. In other words it’s not an “either-or” scroll wheel or volume control, and can set 12 different rules governing the conditions governing it’s behavior. ...
This really isn’t very involved. I was looking at two sets of numbers: MS just launched ie9. Supposedly faster and more secure. There are a lot of qualifiers to that. But, even if there weren’t, I still don’t get how they think. Granted, over the seven months, XP’s share dropped 10% (54% to 44%). IE’s share dropped 10% also (36% to 26%) while the big winner was Chrome (10% to 24%). So why didn’t they make ie9 for XP which...