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Conficker Virus Update

We blogged about the Conficker Virus back in October of 2008 and then again in March of 2009. It was feared that Conficker was programmed to become active on April 1st, potentially causing problems across millions of PC's. While this date passed with no noticeable impact, many sites across the web are reporting that Conficker is still a threat and in many cases causing problems. Yahoo reports that Conficker is being used to install additional software, hijacking PC's to send out SPAM email....

Microsoft Windows 7 to include “XP Mode”

Microsoft is getting closer to releasing the successor to Vista, currently named Windows 7. One of the interesting things about Windows 7 is that it will include "XP Mode" for backwards compatability. According to this article XP Mode is: a licensed, virtualized copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 running inside Microsoft's own Virtual PC framework, customized and framed to allow anyone who needs a picky XP application to run to simply install it while XP Mode is enabled, then have it run as ...

Make the most of Google Apps

Google Apps is a powerful platform, but to make it even more powerful these simple Mail settings will turn your email into a dashboard of information. We recommend giving these settings a try, we've found them to make a difference for our users: Via the Settings Menu, click on Web Clips and click disable. Via the Settings Menus, click on General and Enable Keyboard shortcuts. Via Settings, the Labs tab enable Labs (if necessary). From the Labs settings area click enable on the following: ...