Subscriber and friend Ron Spruell wrote about a problem he had with the new OpenOffice 3.0. The problem occurred with one of the free antivirus programs, so this may be of particular interest to many readers:
OpenOffice 3.0 Problems: Terry — I tried Oo 3.O. I did not uninstall 2.4 first. Oo 3.O increased my [...]
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When I began my evaluation period of Sunbelt Software’s new VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware program, I was promptly shocked.
I had read several reviews about VIPRE and had read phrases like “high performance” and “low resources.” I had even read comments that where the writer said that VIPRE was virtually unnoticeable on their computer and that [...]
This week, I received a query from a reader about a warning message he was receiving:
Hi Terry , I was wondering if perhaps you can help me , I have this very annoying adware that occurs EVERYTIME at startup …. not-a-virus:Adware.Win32.BHO.cr Now althugh this doesn’t appeato be causing any problem on my PC and I [...]
To install, the IE team recommends temporarily disabling your anti-spyware, anti-adware and anti-virus applications.
One of my subscribers asked “My question is how do I do this ?”
Read more in Turning off Antivirus, etc. for IE7 Installation
Spyware is software that enables a third-party to track where you go on the Internet. Usually this does not involves specific tracking cookies and companies that specialize in tracking your visits to advertiser sites.
Although this capability has given cookies a bad name, cookies are not inherently evil. They are used for many good purposes such [...]
Nice little blog entry by a Firefox “newbie” who switched from IE to Firefox for security reasons — after problems with I.E.
Why I Love Firefox — You know, I use Firefox, too. For pretty much the same reasons, too, but Ive been using it since version 0.7.
Joris Evers of Tech Republic reports, has a good report on IE7’s first day in his article Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch.
Events for the initial day of IE7 included:
a reported security flaw (Microsoft said — that’s ok, it an Outlook Express bug that we might fix later, not an IE7 bug).web sites that [...]
One of Microsoft’s attempts at “user friendliness” is that recent versions of Windows are set to hide file extensions. What’s a file extension? As an example, it is the “.exe” that is at the end of a program’s name.
Unfortunately, Microsoft decided that we don’t really need to know what file extensions are. Even [...]
Viruses, worms and trojan horses still attack computers — they come in emails, they arrive completely unexpectedly in unpatched Windows hole, and they arrive via “drive-by downloads.” Anti-virus programs continue to battle viruses. They now attack worms, trojan horses and phishing attacks, too.
It is actually amazing in today’s world, but there are still people who [...]