First and foremost congratulation to the National Champions University of Alabama. In a move not normal for my family we decided to have a little football party and watch the game. Its unique in my house in the fact that non of us are really into football. I’m originally from Texas, my daughter goes to Birmingham Southern, and my wife only has family who graduated from Auburn. So no real tie to UA except the fact that we are proud Alabamians.
Well I’m not talking about news, we all have our favorite news sites Digg and Slashdot? I’m talking about Windows Software, not windows itself. You should have windows update turned on for that. I’m talking about everything else, how do you keep it updated. Do you wait for the software to complain that it is old? Do you have several updaters running in the background, for instance, Java Update or Quicken update? If so, you are wasting memory and slowing down your system. What I have found to be the best and easiest way to keep updated is to use, FileHippo.Com Updater.
Yep, it is already that time of year again. We just skipped past Halloween and now its on to Thanksgiving and Christmas. This becomes a very busy time of year for me. See this is when people become vulnerable to E-Card type of viruses. Everyone wants to be green and send these fake, none feeling, one click, vi er E-Cards. It again becomes my job to stop them. They are a hindrance on Mail servers, they are a hindrance on IT Staff, and who wants to spend the holidays battling a computer virus.
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Operation Aurora – Continues
So continuing on from the previous post on Operation Aurora. We now know that Microsoft had known about this flaw for a while. Now we will examine the Chinese Governments place in this whole mess.
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Tags: Aurora, Microsoft, security