Talk About Funny! A Great Spoof of an Existing Ad.

by wwarren | Nov 20, 2009 | Apple, Microsoft, Windows

This is a spoof of the Vista Choices ad in the long running mac vs poc series of ads from Apple.  I ran across this one as a link. YouTube – UNRELEASED Mac vs. PC AD for iPhone and iPod Touch SPOOF.

New Code is Bad Code(as per Stever Gibson @grc.com)

by wwarren | Nov 12, 2009 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Windows, Windows 7

Laurent Gaffié blog: Windows 7 / Server 2008R2 Remote Kernel Crash. notice this is only in the two major operating systems that use the new smb protocol by Microsoft?  Vista isn’t mentioned but i bet this will kill Vista as well.

MIcrosoft Forgets Basic Security in Bing.

by wwarren | Nov 11, 2009 | Microsoft, Open Source, Security

Bing hit by costly security loophole | Technology | guardian.co.uk. Whoopsie so now it’s pushed into the underground who are most assuredly taking advantage of it.  Sorry MS your usual security by obscurity failed many years ago.

One Reason to Keep up With Your PC’s Security

by wwarren | Nov 9, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Windows

AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by a PC virus by AP: Yahoo! Tech. Anti-virus isn’t enough.  I have posted before on the security flaws inherent to IE, ActiveX and by extension Windows.  Why it may not be a valid defense for all in many cases it purely is a...

The Dangers of Being an Early Adopter(Even if it was Being Driven By Necessity)

by wwarren | Nov 2, 2009 | Hardware, Open Source, Storage

I reccommended to my Mother in Law that a netbook would be perfect for her based on her needs.  It IS perfect except she is running out of room on the 8 gig SSD.  I went to find an upgrade for her SSD and found one by a company called Runcore.  Let’s jsut say...