I wasn’t paying attention closely enough last night and before I realized it I had accepted the recently released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 onto my work machine. The install went smoothly enough but since then? Not so great. Internet Explorer stops working very frequently now. The funny thing is, … Continue reading
These days I find myself spending the majority of my time in a Windows based OS of one flavor or another. However, I still have most of my machines set to dual-boot to a Linux distro (lately that’s usually Ubuntu). That way I still have it very handy when I … Continue reading
Just a quick public safety announcement: When doing maintenance on other people’s PCs, take a moment and check out what they’re running for antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, anti-whatever-we-call-it. Lately I’ve seen a handful of machines running versions of McAfee first installed 4 or 5 years ago. No offense McAfee, but that … Continue reading
Thanks to a scratched CD I discovered a new/updated tool for my toolkit this week. See, I was swapping hard drives between two laptops: one is 500 GB and the other 160. Oh, and I didn’t want to have to reload either of them. Before the swap I booted each … Continue reading
I just noticed Microsoft Security Advisory (2501696) and, if you’re running a Windows OS, I think you should notice it too. This is a published vulnerability and there are proof-of-concept attacks out there. As usual, yikes. In short: The vulnerability exists due to the way MHTML interprets MIME-formatted requests for … Continue reading
