by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
Windows Desktop Search now supports 64 bit XPMicrosoft has released Beta 2 of Windows Desktop Search 3.0, and the good news is that it now supports 64 bit versions of XP and Server 2003. There are also a number of fixes, and you can upgrade from previously...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
As those of you who follow my blog posts know, I’ve been happily using Vista as my main working computer for the last few months. Yeah, I know Russ Cooper disapproves but I happen to disagree with his postulation that you shouldn’t run a beta on a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
EICAR is a group of security experts that research malware. Quite a while back, they created a test program that all antivirus scanners would recognize as being a “virus” file. It has no virus attributes. In fact, it’s just a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
CounterSpy Enterprise 1.8 has shipped. This is a really good release — absolutely the best release of our enterprise version to date and one of the best releases in our history. I’m very proud of all of those that worked on it. The release is mostly...
by Alex Eckelberry | Aug 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last night, I had the dubious honor of helping my mother with her AOL account. The advertisements on her email screen made it look like some garish mixture between a third world candy store and a bordello. Why in the hell should she have to...