by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s become the latest craze in security blogs — show how search for a celebrity or current event leads to malware through Google searches.I’ve done it myself, quite a bit. And I do think it provides a public service.But the reality is — it’s massive, it’s constant,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Farida Waziri, head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has announced that her agency, aided by Microsoft, has begun a large-scale crackdown on the email scammers who have made Nigeria infamous to Internet users for 20 years.Waziri, speaking at a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
CNET UK is reporting that copies of Windows 7 have been mailed to customers in the UK several days before the official release date (tomorrow). According to the CNET UK blog, Microsoft allowed it in anticipation of a postal strike by carriers with the Royal Mail.This...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
For the second year, Computer Weekly will be holding its IT blog awards, to “discover which bloggers are best meeting the needs of IT professionals in the UK.” The Sunbelt Blog has been nominated.Oct. 27, after the Computer Weekly folks come up with their short list,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Oct 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Ok, we’re not going to mention Microsoft’s VISTA now.Windows 7 will become available Thursday. Reviews based on the beta and release candidate haven’t been too bad, but the world will be waiting to see if computer users buy it quickly, wait a year, wait until the...
