All I can say when it comes to finally getting my production Vista desktop working as I think it should be is “It”s about (expletive deleted) time!” After building this system over the summer and dealing with the usual shakedown issues involved in getting all the software and settings installed, I found myself fighting a …
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Patch Tuesday For December 2008
The second Tuesday in each month is when Microsoft schedules its patches, fixes, and security updates. Recently, Microsoft has begun to offer Advance Notification for its Security Bulletins, which makes it a lot easier to tell what”s coming down the pike. For December, 8 updates have been pushed to the Windows Update servers
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Thermaltake NBcool T3000 Notebook Cooler
Because of their cramped cases and modest ventilation, most notebook PCs tend to run significantly hotter than desktop PCs. Recently, case and cooling specialist ThermalTake sent us one of their notebook coolers to look at, promising some “interesting results” from its use. With that tantalizing promise to test, we decided to check it out with …
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Grab this great, free rootkit detector if you need it!
A rootkit is a particularly stealthy and nasty form of malware designed to take over complete control of a system (root level access in UNIX terms means “access to everything, no holds barred”). Rootkits seek to hide from detection via standard operating system based security mechanisms, and require special tools for detection and cleanup.
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Secunia Personal Software Inspector Does a Bang-up Job
As somebody who”s been researching and writing about malware since 2003, I”ve come to recognize Danish information security firm Secunia as a reliable source of good intelligence about what”s happening on the threat landscape. When a malware alert, proof of concept exploit, or news story shows up with their name on it, I will invariably …
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