Category Archives: Tech
Fortinet wins SC Magazine award for Best Integrated Security Solution
Congratulations to Fortinet for taking home the SC Magazine award for “Best Integrated Security Solution” for the Fortigate 310B. In their review, SC Magazine stated: The FortiGate-310B appliance integrates firewall, AV, IPS, VPN, content filtering, anti-spam and traffic-shaping functions, or … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
April Fool’s Day poses Virus risk
Virus programmers have written a new virus that is scheduled to become active on April 1st, 2009. It is estimated that 9 to 15 million machines are currently infected. On April 1st, these machines will execute the malicious code, potentially … Continue reading
Windows XP and Office 2003 reach end of Microsoft lifecycle
Microsoft has confirmed that they will be ending mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003 on April 14. The end of mainstream support means that Microsoft will no longer provide bug fixes or service packs for these products. Microsoft … Continue reading
Running Windows on a Mac?
We recently decided to install Apple BootCamp on a Mac to determine the best “Windows” solution for Mac users. BootCamp is a utilty included in the Mac OS that allows users to install Windows as a secondary OS on a … Continue reading
Study cites 44% productivity increase for dual monitor users
A recent study at the University of Utah found “people who used two 20-inch monitors were 44 percent more productive at certain text-editing operations than people using a single 18-inch monitor.” While the real world impact of using two monitors … Continue reading
Perfect Passwords
Source: Perfect Passwords, Mark Burnett 2005 and reprinted from: WhatsMyPass From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many people picked the very same passwords over and over. Even the way people misspell words … Continue reading
Microsoft releases critical IE security patch
On December 17, 2008 Microsoft released a patch for a recently disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The patches fixes a problem where a specially crafted website could result in a hacker gaining remote control of your comptuer. Due to the … Continue reading
MS Excel – SKU011.cab error
This a technical post. From time to time we will share basic tech tips or helpdesk items that we are seeing repeated at multiple customer sites. Certain operations in Excel or Outlook can cause Office 2003 to lose track of … Continue reading