================== From Customer Email==================Follow-up via email about the privacy registration. Remember, it doesn’t hurt to do a private registration if you are more comfortable with that. I just tend to be very practical and realistic about things. (1) When you register a domain name, the information that you use is entered into the WHOIS database. This information serves a number …

While doing some quick research for a customer of mine with a Mac – I ran across the Youtube Video from Google showing off Picasa for the Mac. I’m very glad Google finally released it! http://picasa.google.com/mac/ As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Google’s products – and I use Picasa to manage all of my pictures . I …

Well this year started out a little shakey on the technology front. I have been attempting to post about malware for 2 hours using my Blogger.com account and kept receiving the following error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out Just so you know, I use Blogger.com to post my blog to my own webserver using the FTP publishing built into Blogger. This …

Happy New Year to everyone! Unfortunately, my first post of the new year is not a positive one. For example, malware programs now infect computers and then routinely use their own antivirus capabilities to not only disable antivirus software but also remove competing malware programs. source: http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2008/20081216_internet_security_is_losing_the_online_war.htm Ok – I’ve been preaching for a long time that your anti virus …

There is only 1 printed magazine that I subscribe to anymore – that is Wired Magazine. For some reason, I just enjoy reading the articles and the layout. This month’s issue contained a very interesting article on a guy name Max Butler. To quickly summarize – when the Fed’s busted him, his laptop had over 1 million credit card numbers. …

It just seems like there is never enough time in the day to get everything done! As many of you are aware, I also have a domain/hosting company setup at www.webspacegeeks.com. Typically I use this site to register domains and setup hosting for my web development clients. Every now and then I get a “drop in” customer who finds me …

============= From Email to a client============= I’ve finally compiled my list of suggestions for helping to secure them and streamline the process of setup. This will help insure consistency of the laptops which will provide a much better classroom experience. Hopefully, the computers will be running XP, but these recommendations will work for Vista as well. Implementing all of this …

Recently, one of my clients was discussing a possible business deal with a relative – who happens to work for a Fortune 500 company in some capacity. Let’s call him “Bob.” The discussion turned at some point to open source software and Bob stated, “Major companies will not do business with anything open source.” Now, I may be off the …

I know – I know. Typically I don’t post about Internet Explorer exploits. However, this one is pretty serious. I do have a few customers that must use IE for sites such as the Caddo Parish and Bossier Parish websites. Both of them stupidly use Active X controls. Not that either of these sites are malicious, but they tacitly encourage …

———————- From Email: going to be donating a couple of old computers to Goodwill. What is the best wayto wipe the hard drives? Is reformatting safe enough?———————- Simply deleting files in Windows (and most OS’es) doesn’t actually delete the data. It is fairly trivial to recover it. The only way to insure security is to “wipe” or “nuke” the data …