May 7, 2008 | Internet, mobile, network, security, Vista, wireless
Vista’s firewall is significantly beefed up from the firewall in Windows XP – it monitors outgoing traffic, it’s able to adjust easily when a computer is moved from one network to another, and the settings are easier to find in Vista’s Network...
May 5, 2008 | broadband, computers, Internet, mobile, network, security, wireless
If you have a wireless notebook, there’s yet another way the bad guys can get past your defenses.When you connect to a wireless access point, normally you’re in “infrastructure” mode. Network traffic to all the computers using the wireless...
Apr 23, 2008 | computers, mail, Microsoft, Office, OneCare, photos, security, software, Vista, web_services
Microsoft is working on a package of software and online services that might be exactly right for students and home computer users. Although Vista includes important features out of the box, it does not include Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, and Powerpoint....
Apr 16, 2008 | mail, security, spam
I’ve gotten several calls recently about an odd type of spam attack that also happened to me a few days ago. As other clients had reported, I began getting “non-delivery reports” – messages from mail servers all over the world that messages...
Apr 14, 2008 | Apple, computers, Internet, Microsoft, OneCare, security, spam
Many of you practice safe computing – you install security updates from Microsoft and other vendors, you run antivirus and adware/spyware programs and keep them current, your email program has a spam filter and blocks .EXE and other potentially dangerous...
Apr 8, 2008 | computers, Microsoft, security, Vista, WinXP
Your computer will restart tonight. It’s Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates that will be automatically installed overnight. All of you have upgraded to Microsoft Update so you get patches for Office programs...
