Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesRIP Outlook Express & Hotmail
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.I have been using Outlook Express since I first used Windows 98. It’s basic, but it works fine for me. I don’t need the full-blown Outlook at home. At work I use it, but that’s because I have no choice in the matter. Although [...]
Phorm Is Bad
Monday, April 28th, 2008I found this video on YouTube. It’s 6 mins long and explains very well the threat that Phorm will have on us all as it slowly worms it’s way into the large ISP’s in the UK and possibly beyond.
Anti-Phorm Petition
Saturday, April 26th, 2008The “Phorm Storm” is raging hard and fast. A petition against it is available at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ispphorm/
I have signed it and will shortly be speaking to Virgin Media who provide my broadband connection. If you conduct a search for “stop phorm” via a search engine you will see a huge amount of results. 99.9% of it [...]
Phorm, Again - Part III
Friday, April 25th, 2008The “Phorm Storm” [I may just © that] continues to rumble closer and closer. According to the BBC Phorm could be automatically blocked by some security systems.
The BBC also states “So far three net firms, BT, Virgin and Carphone Warehouse, have signed up for Phorm. Carphone Warehouse has said its customers will have to opt [...]
Five Steps On How To Stop Spam Email
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008How widespread is Spam? According to Vnunet: “Spam email accounted for 96.63% of all email scanned in March 2008, making it the third consecutive month that junk mail levels have remained steady.”
SPAM laws were passed in the USA and UK in 2003, and so far have failed to stop the flow of SPAM messages to [...]
Malware Can Be Popular To Some People
Monday, April 21st, 2008We’re nearly at the end of April 2008, and some utterly unconnected reason I’d like to highlight how two separate companies who deal with Malware infections, class the top 10 Malware threats for March 2008.
In one corner we have Sophos, who have been around for a while and produce many computer security products. In the [...]
Windows Service Pack 3 Is Imminent
Friday, April 18th, 2008The beta version of Service pack 3 for XP is out now. The official release date for XP SP3 is rumoured to be made available via Windows Update on April 29 2008. This final service pack update for XP will offer security updates rather than anything else. There will be no cosmetic changes although a [...]
Malware & Viruses Made Beautiful
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Viruses or malware are a pain, no doubt about it. What would a virus look like if it wasn’t just binary code? Well now you can see what some viruses or malware would look like according to their code.
A computational artist was given the code and has created in 3D what some viruses would look [...]
Spring Clean & Speed Up Your Computer For Free
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Spring is just around the corner, although in the UK last week it snowed. Along with cleaning your home or even your car, you should be thinking of spring cleaning your computer. All those files and programs that you no longer need are clogging up your computer and causing it to slow down. Spring cleaning [...]
Roll Up, Roll Up - Get Your Free Portable Software Here
Monday, April 14th, 2008Do you use portable software? If not, why not? Portable software, or “portable apps” to the geeks and techno-heads [yes, like me], is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer.
When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device [...]