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March 2014

Important Security Mailing Lists

by Steve Wiseman on March 28, 2014 · 2 comments

in Security

This week Adam asked a great question: “Hi Steve, I am really busy putting out fires, and I don’t have time to browse all the security patch websites looking for things. Do you have any good security email lists I can sign up for?” There are so many out there that have lots of activity, […]

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See if a program “phones home”

by Steve Wiseman on March 21, 2014 · 2 comments

in Tips

This week I got a question from Daniel: “Hi Steve. When I find an app I like I download and play with it in a virtual machine. If it is from a lesser known firm it means I don’t know much about the company. I want to see if the app is connecting to the […]

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Security for virtual environments

by Steve Wiseman on March 13, 2014 · 1 comment

in Tips

Before I get started with this weeks tip, I want to give a few updates for last weeks article -I was wrong about the free transfer tool from MS. It will not move your applications over – only data. From comments made to me by readers, it is not very good at that either. -A […]

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Windows XP Support Nag Window – FYI

by Steve Wiseman on March 7, 2014 · 7 comments

in Tips,Windows

As you may already know Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. What this really means is – no more security patches for XP. What you might not know is starting this Saturday – March 8th, 2014 – users will start seeing a nag window like this: For some organizations, these type […]

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