Symantec released its Internet Security Threat report last month and it contained some very interesting information with regarding the state of Internet security. Why should home computer users in the United States using Internet Explorer as their web browser pay particular attention?
Lenovo desktop computers and laptops will start showing up with the Web Toolbar from Microsoft pre-loaded. The two companies announced their deal yesterday. Until that announcement, Google was the default toolbar for Lenovo, so I am sure Microsoft is hooting and hollering for two reasons:
They grabbed some share from Google
This is the first [...]
When you are the world’s largest maker of software and your software runs on about 95 percent of the world’s computers, you are going to have to fix things on a regular basis. This month’s edition of Patch Tuesday brings us patches for 6 critical flaws in Microsoft software.
The patches fixed holes in Windows [...]
This is a very basic tip about clearing your browser cache and so most readers already know how to do this. But, there are still some that do not know how to manually clear out the web browser cache so, here is a little how-to.
First, your web browser cache stores information about all of [...]
Back in December, Microsoft issued a fix for the IE7 anti-phishing filter but it did not totally fix the problem.
There have been several complaints that this filter really slows down the IE7 browser, so much so that users have been disabling anti-phishing. This, of course, defeats the purpose of having it available in the [...]
