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Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

So I am going through my email yesterday and I come across an email from TechNet announcing the beta of Microsoft 2010.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Diego - November 19, 2009 at 9:06 am

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Cool Google Interfaces

Google has always been known for not being the norm. An example is changing the banner image everyday for one event or another. Take today (October 7th) as an example. It is the date that barcodes were invented. They made the banner image a large bar code.

2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Diego - October 7, 2009 at 9:22 am

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Clampi Virus targets online banking

In the modern world, most people never see their bank (with the exception of ATM withdrawals).  We use bill pay, direct deposit and bank debit cards.  This is the exact behavior that the Clampi virus is living on.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Diego - September 21, 2009 at 8:54 am

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What’s old is new again

Yesterday, Microsoft put out an advisory to a security vulnerability specific to the Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 SP2, and Windows 7 RC operating systems.  No other Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 RTM are impacted.

1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Diego - September 10, 2009 at 8:43 am

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When is an antivirus really a virus?

Today I recei­ved a call from one of my exter­nal users that was una­ble to access any web­si­tes because some new anti­vi­rus was saying he was unpro­tec­ted and every web­site had mali­cious code.

Since I know that we have McA­fee 8.5 deplo­yed to our users, I knew that this was not a McA­fee issue.  As we dis­cus­sed it a little further he was men­tio­ning that the Anti­vi­rus wan­ted him to purchase the software.

This isn’t the first I have heard of this.  There is a soft­ware com­pany Inno­va­gest 2000 that is pro­du­cing this soft­ware.  They adver­tise it as an antispy­ware appli­ca­tion, but it is the spy­ware.  On some less then savory web­si­tes you will get a pop up that says that your com­pu­ter maybe infec­ted and they offer a free scan.

The fear of being infec­ted moti­va­tes a lot of peo­ple to run this free scan.  Unk­nown to them this appli­ca­tion ins­talls under­neath and now you are stuck.  On that note, I do recom­mend only doing the online scans from repu­ta­ble sites.  I per­so­nally recom­mend the follo­wing: Syman­tec, Panda, and McA­fee.

This appli­ca­tion is extre­mely hard to get rid of.  It rere­gis­ters and ins­talls if it is not com­ple­tely unins­ta­lled correctly.

I hate pro­grams like this.  But it is a fact of life out there.  The modern day snake-oil salesman.

While the pro­gram is run­ning you will see the follo­wing unde­si­ra­ble behavior:

  • A “Win­dows Secu­rity Cen­ter” sta­ting that you should purchase Per­so­nal Antivirus.
  • Nume­rous alerts sta­ting that your com­pu­ter is under attack or that you have mal­ware run­ning on your com­pu­ter. If you click on these alerts, Per­so­nal Anti­vi­rus will be ins­ta­lled, or you will be brought to the purchase page for the program.
  • Your Inter­net Explo­rer brow­ser will be hijac­ked to show secu­rity war­nings when brow­sing the web that stop you from reaching your desi­red page.

As I men­tio­ned before this bug­ger is very hard to get rid off.  But not impos­si­ble.  I found these ins­truc­tions at BleepingComputer.com.

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5 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Diego - July 3, 2009 at 11:38 am

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Export to Excel

One of the nice things of working IT Support is that I get to learn of new features I would not normally use. This actually occurred the other day with a function the Microsoft Excel adds.

2 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Diego - June 9, 2009 at 11:15 am

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