Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
When Starting Up Slows You Down
If your computer is more than a year or two old, you may notice that it is running much slower than it did in the days of its youth. The first culprit we think of in such a situation is spyware and adware. You can easily pick up a lot of this junk [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Featured by Syd Tash
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Email Spam is Growing Rapidly
For some time now you have probably been receiving email spam with subject lines like “You look really stupid in this video” or something to the effect that a long-lost friend is trying to find you. Your first name or part of your email address is often included in the subject line.
These types of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alerts by Syd Tash
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Microsoft Issues a Patch for Vista SP1
Microsoft has come out with a fix for several bugs in that Vista Service Pack 1. One of the repairs fixes the problem in which you cannot run a large application if your computer has been on for a long time.
If you tried to launch Excel 2007 in this situation, for example, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Updates by Syd Tash
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Of Windows 7 and XP
Microsoft has announced that it will ship Windows 7, the successor to Vista, in or around January 2010. It also let it be known that Windows 7 will keep the same core architecture as Vista, to minimize conversion problems to the new operating system.
One of the big problems with Vista was its [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Updates by Syd Tash
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Storm is Back, Again!
That pesky Storm email malware keeps popping up, despite Microsoft’s boasts a few months ago that it had finally killed off Storm. The latest Trojan uses a wide variety of Subject Lines to entice you to open the email.
The spam email contains a link to a fake porno site. If you click the [...]
