Hey folks,   I am a member of the FSS User Assistance (UA) team. To stay current with our products and related technologies, I read blogs and other online technology sites to keep up with new technologies, tips, and general info about security, messaging, and collaboration. I thought I would sh...

I don’t get it. How does someone who claims to be a programmer and technologist end up with a rootkit almost as soon as he plugs it into a network? In a great many years of windows computing, I have yet to come within spitting distance of a rootkit. That’s not because I’m especiall...

Filed under: Computers Lately the news has been all about Facebook and the Koobface virus, a nasty specimen that poses as an updated version of Adobe's Flash video player. The virus installs itself on your computer, takes over your Facebook profile, and then sends itself to your friends. Now, that s...

Here are a few things that I recommend for folks who use PC’s … think of them as “David’s Rules for PC Owners” … Backup the hard drive on your computer.  Hard drives are mechanical devices.  They break.   If you don’t want to loose all those photos, vide...

March 4, 2009 Alida Antonia Cornelius Spambots are infecting website forums using vBulletin software, then sending pornographic spam and exe files which tell you that your PC needs testing for viruses. This week,... read more...

HP is known for its incompetent repair process, but what makes Aaron's case special is that at the end they decide to kick it up a notch. When he sends his computer in and gets it back from the repair center, HP has so ever so graciously filled it with free spyware and viruses. Aaron writes: The ver...

The "Koobface worm" Facebook virus is spreading like wildfire on college campuses. The Facebook worm works like this: After users log into their Facebook or MySpace accounts, they will see a new message from one of their friends encouraging them to click on a new video at a fake, YouTube-esque site....

Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.   Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here....

With all of the stress and anxiety that humanity deals with on a daily basis--confronting the dangers of global warming, the perils of a financial system in meltdown and the ever-present threat of terrorism--the fact that there's yet another danger lurking out there ready to destroy mankind: the thr...

Ugh. The human papillomavirus. You probably know it as HPV and also as that annoying virus that you have or probably will contract at some point in your sexually active life. More than 100 strains of the virus have been identified and 30 to 40 are constantly being passed around the sexually active p...