Thoughts on Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version 1.46 At around 5½ Megs it is definitely on the low end in size of all the malware programs except for cloud based Prevx. There are 2 versions of Malwarebytes Anti-malware or MBAM as fans like to refer to it. There is the free version that you have to run [...]

Sony is saying bye bye to the 3.5 inch floppy disk. The last manufacturer of the floppy disk is stopping production in Japan in 2011. Most other floppy disk manufacturers had long since pulled out of the market, and Sony itself has already ceased sales to most of its overseas markets. The writing has been [...]

If you use Google Chrome you are familiar with the new tab page which shows thumbs of your recent page visits. Then as extensions became available for the regular releases instead of just on the Dev. channel here comes Speed Dial which has been available for Firefox for quite sometime now. Speed Dial for Chrome [...]

McAfee servers today pushed out a regular update (DAT 5958) that falsely identified the Windows XP file svchost.exe as a being infected with the virus Wecorl.a. This huge pain in the butt effected Enterprise customers. The result was after the update was applied tens of thousands computers in effect crashed. To make matters worse trying [...]

This comes as no surprise as most add-ons are written by third parties and considering the number of add-ons out there especially those for Firefox (the king of add-ons) which has a huge number to choose from that some would cause problems. Problems like slowing the browser and crashing the browser. If you run a [...]

Yahoo E-Mail accounts hacked in China. The attacks seemed to be coordinated and were against journalists, rights activists and academics. A Chinese human rights organization said that there web site was hit 5 days in a row. In at least one incident a hacked account had all there E-Mails forwarded to a mystery address. This [...]

Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from games, to video, to enterprise apps. According to the Chromium Blog the player will be built into the Google Chrome browser soon. In fact the interjection of Flash has already begun [...]

So far so good for Windows 7. At this point in time Microsoft´s Windows 7 gets a big thumbs up. Arstechnica says Windows 7 adoption and satisfaction have both been exceptionally high from the start, according to two new reports from Forrester Research. The first report notes that the early adopters which drive the initial [...]

We all heard about Googles problems in China which ranged from there servers being hacked and there decision not to filter there search results anymore. Google China Pullout Deliberate Plot / Chinese Headache Coming On? Now because of privacy, problems GoDaddy and another company Network Solutions LLC have decided to stop selling and registering domain [...]

The GeForce GTX 480 lists for around 500 bucks US and is Nividia´s fastest single card offering. The chip is based on Nvidia´s Next-Gen Fermi Architecture If you have the bucks for this big bad boy and are a hard core gamer perhaps the 500 dollar price tag is worth it. The card delivers around [...]

Ding Yifan, a researcher working for China´s State Council wrote an article in the English-language China Daily regarding Google´s decision to pull out of China was a deliberate plot to promote the intrusive strategy of the U.S. government under the guise of supporting a free Internet. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that [...]