Posts under ‘Security’

The short answer: Updates are worthless if one does not apply them.
Once again I find myself cleaning malware off of a home user’s Microsoft based notebook PC. Once again, while it has anti-virus software installed it was infected by a “drive-by attack” from a web page. It was infected with the Antispyware Soft fake anti-malware [...]

This is the second article in my series about GNU/Linux security for the GNU/Linux curious and new GNU/Linux user. The first article is here: GNU/Linux Security: Ubuntu has been Cracked!
There are many attempts to explain the differences between GNU/Linux and Microsoft products when it comes to security. In this article I am going to make [...]

[Notice: If you do not like the title, read the article anyway. Otherwise, there is no point in sending me a comment as I will not post comments that state something like, "Your title suxxors! I refused to read your article after I read the first paragraph! You're just trying to boost traffic to your [...]

After reading this article be sure to see my follow-up comment about it.
Could it be that Microsoft, Microsoft shills and/or Microsoft fanboys are “gaming” the uptime table at Netcraft? Unless I am misunderstanding something, frankly, I think they are. I was going to show a friend of mine the uptime table at Netcraft to display [...]

I recently worked on a Microsoft Windows XP based laptop for a young female college undergraduate at the request of her parents. The system was reported to be running “slow” and not able to access DVD media. I picked up the laptop and brought it to my home office for examination while the family took [...]