Jan 6, 2011 | Microsoft, security
Eric Ligman wrote an article today about avoiding scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently. One of my clients was just treated to one of them, a phone caller claiming to be “Microsoft tech support” responding to some problem in the office’s computers. It was...
Dec 19, 2010 | Microsoft, security, software, updates, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Microsoft has released version 2 of Microsoft Security Essentials, with some nice improvements and new features. It is visually almost unchanged; MSE continues to be almost invisible while it operates, providing all the protection that you need with a minimum of fuss....
Dec 13, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, security, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Your computer will restart on Tuesday night, after getting a particularly large collection of updates for Windows and Office. Close any open programs or files but leave your computers turned on when you leave the office on Tuesday. It’s Patch Tuesday, the second...
Dec 9, 2010 | business, network, SBS, security, software, Vista, Windows7
Here’s a moderately geeky tip about how to fix a nagging problem when a mapped drive disappears during installation of a program from a shared folder on another computer on the network. Until a small business starts to use a document management system, it almost...
Dec 5, 2010 | security, web_services
LastPass is the truly essential utility, a free tool to help you remember the passwords that fill our lives. Personally, I’ve got LastPass keeping track of a couple of hundred memorized passwords; I have all my address and credit card information memorized so LastPass...
Nov 11, 2010 | Adobe, Microsoft, Office, security, updates
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has come and gone this week with a very small number of patches for Office programs and nothing at all for Windows. Most of your computers restarted Tuesday night. You’re likely to also be seeing prompts this week to update Adobe Flash...
