You have a backup right?

Archived in the category: Apple, cloud computing, General, Windows
Posted by okorioth on 01 Feb 12 - 0 Comments

That Sinking Feeling That’s the question I usually ask when confronted with a drive failure, or a malfunctioning system. More often than not, the answer is usually a no. Its a tough lesson to learn, and backup is such an easy thing to do these days. Just remember all hard drives will eventually fail. There [...]

Beware Of The System Check Trojan

Archived in the category: Security, Windows
Posted by okorioth on 25 Jan 12 - 2 Comments

Lately in the last couple of months I’ve seen this infection making the rounds, and it is a nasty one. The System Check virus/Trojan, part of the FakeHDD family of infections is a fake computer analysis and optimization program designed to look like your Windows system is failing and that you need to purchase their [...]

Microsoft Releases Massive Batch of Security Updates For October

Archived in the category: Security, Windows
Posted by okorioth on 13 Oct 09 - 0 Comments

Its the second Tuesday of the month, and that of course means in the Microsoft camp its patch Tuesday. And what a whopper this one is, in fact its the largest amount of patches ever released at one time.  The range of patches pretty much covers almost every major product line, from Windows, Server, SQL, [...]

Unprecedented response to major DNS flaw

Archived in the category: Security
Posted by okorioth on 09 Jul 08 - 0 Comments

Wow, this is simply unheard of.  Yesterday it was publicly revealed that a major design flaw in the DNS protocol was simultaneously patched by vendors across the entire spectrum of the computer and technology world. The fact that they were able to keep this a secret for six months while they worked to plug the [...]