Last night the Kansas City Royals lost a baseball game to the Minnesota Twins by a score of 19 to 1. That tied the worst loss in the teams history. Wow! I grew up listening to the Royals on the radio almost every night. Those were the days when the Royals were almost always in [...]
A lot of buzz has been generated recently as a result of charges and allegations against LIGATT Security and Gregory Evans. A recent article from The Register lists the major complaints. I don’t have any first-hand experience with or knowledge of LIGATT or Gregory Evans. However I find this whole discussion interesting, and it raises a [...]
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Fred Langa with Windows Secrets has written about his experiences with Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) running on Windows 7. http://windowssecrets.com/2010/05/06/01-The-120-day-Microsoft-security-suite-test-drive Important points… Use firewall, filters (in browsers & email), and anti-malware. Products from Microsoft are finally easy-to-use for normal users. MSE can be configured to be very unobtrusive. MSE will frustrate advanced users, or those [...]
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Why Trust is Important. In that post, the example of using your credit card at the gas station was presented, along with the assumptions about trust that are made. Yesterday, there was an article posted at dark Reading detailing recent credit card skimming incidents at gas station pumps. [...]
For most folks, FREE is a word that they makes their ears perk up. Microsoft Security Essentials is a FREE anti-virus and anti-spyware offering from Microsoft. They bill it as a light-weight product that has a smaller footprint than commercial products. It is intended for the home user. It can be found at www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ Obviously, [...]
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