by wwarren | Sep 20, 2016 | Hosting, Internet, Services
I just had an interesting conversation with my web design partner Lori Curley of Curley Marketing. Third party analytics have gotten caught in the ad blocking drag net. This means the numbers form third party apps like Google Analytics and Clicky analytics can be...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2016 | General, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
AdBlockPlus now means we will blocks ads PLUS give you ads folks pay them to allow. I saw the initial link at hackernews but the full story is on theverge. A couple of years ago I heard that the company behind ADB+ wanted to start allowing certain ads through for...
by wwarren | Jun 21, 2016 | Internet, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10
I can verify the author’s experiences below. I have a Surface 3 and an HP laptop running windows 10. I also have a shuttle box with a sandy bridge core i-3 cpu and 8 gigs of ram. Edge is a total hog. It will grab everything in ram it can and then force the...
by wwarren | Jun 20, 2016 | Internet, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
Windows has issues that make it easy for this type of infection to take hold: Javascript once it gets onto the system is run by the Windows Scripting Host which has a very high level of system access. Windows hides file extensions so the .js extension...
by wwarren | Jun 19, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security, Security Alerts
As I have stated over and over the cloud is NOT secure. It never will be and never can be. the highly centralized nature of the various cloud services means you do NOT want to put anything critical on the cloud. You can go to my cloud section of my blog as I start...
by wwarren | Apr 23, 2016 | Cloud Computing, General, Google Apps, Internet, Security
This is an example of current best practices not being forward thinking enough. I was recommending my basics of not getting infected way back in 2008. Time’s article lists the standard advice: The only way to protect against a ransomware attack is rote: keep...
