Like many who are responsible for curing the PCs of friends and family, I’ve been leaning on the 1-2 combo punch of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (free) and SUPERAntiSpyware (also free) for the past year or so. Between the two of them — and judicious use of Safe Mode scanning — I’ve … Continue reading
Here’s an awesome Event Log error I found on a client’s server yesterday: An application pop up happened. From an application. Problem is, it doesn’t tell me what the popup said — or what application popped it! I was amused.
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
It has been a while since I mentioned Microsoft’s Security Essentials antivirus application. This is what I’ve standardized on for the family and friend home machines that I “manage” for them. Simple, light-weight and has worked very well for us over the past year. Pretty easy to forget about it … Continue reading
As part of the WebsiteSpark program I received a license for Visual Studio 2010 and I’ve been using it for some recent projects. Great development environment but I often feel that I’m doing things less efficiently then I could. Today Buck Woody tweeted the release of the “official” Visual Studio … Continue reading
