Bad news if you’re relying MSE to protect you against malware, A-V Test reports. MSE dropped to 10.5 out of a possible 18. Other software dropped 1-2 points as well. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition and VIPRE Internet Security were among 16 of the 23 products tested which dropped in their scores. You can get the full report here: http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/sepoct-2012/ BitDefender, F-Secure Internet Security and Kaspersky Interne...
Frequently after a malware infection, you lose settings. This tool will restore them: Reset Registry Permissions Reset File Permissions Register System Files Repair WMI Repair Windows Firewall Repair Internet Explorer Repair MDAC & MS Jet Repair Hosts File Remove Policies Set By Infections Repair Icons Repair Winsock & DNS Cache Remove Temp Files Repair Proxy Settings Unhide Non System Files Repair Windows Updates and more stuff. It’s a tool worth h...
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My chance at throwing together a TWIS (this week in skinning). I.D.'s off somewhere playing hooky AND I got his lovely wife to disable all interwebz connections on his devices. So.... here are some skins deserving of your interest: Tanger Master Suite Hollyday Docks ...
The key to productivity is organization, prioritization and this tool does it, and does it very well. It also has the plus that it uses your browser as the center point and there’s a free extension to use for Android, iPhone, Chrome, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird and Mac. Your reasons for being disorganized are really fading… I’d strongly recommend tis to anyone seeking a fantastic, free tool! Take a look at it here: http://todoist.com/web You can cli...
A real quicky for you all…. MS has some wonderful themepacks for the holidays. The wallpapers are stunning examples of what folks who have photographic talent can do. If you don’t want the theme, and only want the walls (in 1920 x 1200 res) you can use the free 7-zip utility (download here: http://free7zip.com/ ) to unzip the theme to the wallpapers and theme separately and save the walls to a different location as I explained in this article: http://d...
This is nothing but an end run around the Fourth Amendment and Habaeus Corpus. c|net has discovered this marked departure from Leahy’s prior approach: “Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies -- including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission -- to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant. It also would give the FBI...
One of the best teachers ever (if you like my shops, she’s the guilty party) is doing a 6 hour tutorial on “Blending Modes” on creativeLive at noon EST, today. She’s really the best, and teaches the fundamentals as well as the practical. Today she’ll review 27 blending techniques which are all useful in your art. You can enroll for free here: http://www.creativelive.com/instructor/lesa-snider The “enroll” button is right next to the course description and doesn’t cos...
Opswat is a small .exe tool which does not install on your system and operates as an “as needed” app. It was developed by Bobby Czarny who owns “Opswat”, a San Francisco based company. It evaluates the general security of your computer, but in my examination, it fell a bit short. It also does a tolerable amount of self promotion. After downloading and initiating the tool, which collects anonymous data from your system about app usage, it generates a report...
The first of MS’s IE10 Previews for W7 has arrived and is available for download here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie-10/worldwide-languages I’m doing the x64 download, and I’ll keep you updated with impressions and screenshots as we go along. First impression is that the installation is taking a long time because of the “Language Package”. I don’t like the idea that disc space is being wasted on language...
With Windows 8 barely out of the womb, this isn’t the best of news. He was the driving force behind the newest MS OS. Julie Larson-Green who was a lead engineer of Windows 7 has been promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. Tami Reller will take on managing the business side of Windows. Good luck with that, Ms. Reller. Business hasn’t been embracing Windows 8. MS hasn’t revealed Sinofsky’s reason for leaving and stated it was a &ldqu...
You folks know that I update you about “Patch Tuesday”. November’s MS security update day is special because it will be the first patch day for Windows 8 and RT, so expect a patch, you folks with W8. “Happy 1st Patchday”, Windows 8. Here’s the Executive Summary of the usual patches: Sources: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-nov http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411987,00.asp
TrendLabs has reported the Pixsteal-A-Trojan . It ’ s a new type of malware which targets image files to expose those infected to identity theft, blackmail and fraud. This Trojan finds image files on your drives and transfers these images to a remote server. The affected file types are .jpg, .jpeg and .dmp (dmp's are created by computer or program crashes). While AutoCAD files have been targeted in the past by industrial espionage spyware, most Trojans concentrat...
This is why I tell folks that I don’t the “security” of the Cloud… physical or electronic. According to an article on neowin.net , The Electronic Freedom Foundation filed a brief on behalf of one person (the only person) who wants what he uploaded to Megaupload back. The Government responded with a process so convoluted that it could never work…. from sheer bureaucracy, making hurdles a person or small business would find almost insurmountable. Clearly, the government has...