Randy Abrams is Director of Technical Education for Eset, LLC. They make the popular and effective NOD32 Antivirus System. We here at Kane Computing Solutions use and sell NOD32 to our clients. Randy makes an important point in his latest blog entry about how the educated user is the best defense against malware, something I’ve [...]
The servers appear to be back up again, but anyone who was trying to activate or validate Windows over the weekend was told their copy of Windows might be pirated! A lot of people have been quite upset! Via Mary Jo Foley’s ZDNet blog: ArsTechnica and a few other sites are pointing to Microsoft forums [...]
A man is arrested for tapping into somebody’s wireless network. Via NetworkWorld: London police arrest man for ‘stealing’ Wi-Fi Police officers in London arrested a 39-year-old man using his laptop to access someone else’s wireless Internet connection on Tuesday. His actions could potentially breach the Computer Misuse Act and the Communications Act, according to a [...]
I’ve been looking for some new themes for WordPress, the content management system (CMS) I use to maintain this blog. I happened on a couple of nice ones that I like and I hope you like them too. The current one is called Glossover. Feel free to comment on the look of our blog or [...]
I recently downloaded the new Beta2 versions of Eset’s Smart Security (combining antivirus, antispyware, firewall and antispam protection) and Eset’s standalone NOD32 Antivirus. See here for my previous posting on this software. Eset Smart Security This new beta version has revamped the user interface somewhat. It looks shinier and cleaner and some minor bugs with [...]
This one comes into your inbox and purports to be a link to a YouTube video. Be not fooled my friends and do not click on the link! Previous variants have used links to adult pictures, or purported ‘e-card’ downloads. From eSecurityPlanet: Since it first appeared early this year, Storm has evolved and mutated faster [...]
Eset has released the Beta2 of the Eset Smart Security, that incorporates antivirus, firewall and antispam protection. I reviewed the earlier beta here. I’ll be downloading the new Beta2 and trying it out this weekend. I hope to post about it soon. In addition, Eset has released a beta of their standalone antivirus product, NOD32, [...]
A new ransomware trojan is making the rounds. This is malware that once it gets on your computer, it finds your documents and encrypts them, essentially holding them hostage on your own computer. Then it extorts the victim into wiring money to the perpetrator at which point the “honorable” criminal is supposed to send the [...]
Some enterprising gents recently demonstrated another use for duct tape: build your own working server out of it! Duct Tape Server was built entirely from four rolls of gray Nashua duct tape, a quarter roll of translucent 3M duct tape, and these computer components: Pentium P4 2.4 GHz Intel SFF Motherboard 1GB twinned DDR RAM [...]
What if you could provide greater security for your online accounts with Ebay and PayPal and it would only cost you $5. Would you do it? Of course you would! PayPal is now offering a security key (or token) that can be used to provide an additional layer of security to your online transactions with PayPal [...]
