‘Windows Vista’ Archives
Windows Security Best Practices
In todays age, you can not be too secure when it comes to your network it's better to be safe than sorry. In the current economy I've seen many companies consolidate jobs and add new burden to already over-burdened admins. One of the places where this will hurt companies is the network security departments. I've learned many security faux [...]
No Virus/Maleware and Computers Slow
A lot of complaints I generally hear about people's computers is that they have slowed down. Usually most tech will look towards one thing that is the most likely cause...spyware/virus (or whatever you personally call it). Though after ruling that out, what might be some other explanations for the slowness? I want to focus on [...]
Q&A Monday: USB Printer in DOS
Question: I currently have a legacy software at my current job that runs in DOS and have printed to a printer that was connected via parallel cable. Recently that printer has bit the dust and I bought a new USB printer to replace it, but now the program wont print, but the printer works in Windows, please help. Answer: This is a common [...]
Effectively Erasing Files
Thinking about getting rid of a computer can actually be a lot more complicated that initially thought. Many people remember to get their files off and delete any important information from the drive and think that's the end of it. It's not just individuals, companies can also fall into this trap. Just selecting delete does not mean that the [...]
Q&A Monday: Increase Simultaneous Downloads
Question: Because of my job I spent a lot of time downloading files from the internet, my productivity is killed by the simultaneous download limit in Windows. Is there anyway to work around this limit or a nifty program that will let me easily download more? Joseph James Dallas, TX Answer: Now I have tried many programs that [...]
Security Alert: Shortcut file Vulnerability
This vulnerability is due to the failure of Microsoft Windows to properly obtain icons for LNK files. Microsoft uses LNK files, commonly referred to as "shortcuts," as references to files or applications. By convincing a user to display a specially-crafted LNK file, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code that would give the attacker [...]
Q&A Monday: Block Sites from Computer
Question: Hey Jim hope your doing well and having a good summer! I need a little help. My daughter has autism and she loves Youtube. However, some of the things on youtube are very disturbing. Is there anyway we can totally block Youtube from our computers? Media, Pa Answer: There is a simple an easy way to block sites from a computer, the [...]
Update Tuesday: July 13th 2010
There wasn’t a huge amount of updates this month from Microsoft, but be aware that some of the problems being patched this month, were from publically reported exploits, so you want to make sure you get your updates applied as soon as you can. Update: KB2229593 - Type: Critical (XP) and Low (2003) What is does: This is a fix that [...]
Top 5: Most overlooked configuration items
No matter how prepared and how well documented the network is, sometimes techs forget some basic configurations sometimes. It’s never intentional, but sometimes there are small configurations that we just need to double check. Below is a list of some things that I’ve seen (and have) forgotten to double check when doing a [...]
Microsoft Security Updates: June 8th 2010
Security Updates Update: MS10-032/KB979559 Type: Important Affected Systems: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 2008, 2008 R2 What it does: A trio of bugs in the Windows kernel can allow the use of malformed fonts to allow escalation of privileges attacks. It would be a bit hard to sneak a font onto the system without some sort of install privileges [...]
