Malicious PDF Documents can be a threat to your business I can’t tell you how many people tell me that they never worry about clicking on Adobe PDF file documents because “they are safe”.  They are shocked when I tell them that infected PDF files is one of the major ways viruses and trojans are brought […]

Here is Adobe’s official life cycle page listing what their support commitment is to their various products.  Notice that Adobe 8 Reader went end of core support on 11/3/2011.   Adobe Reader 9 is the oldest fully supported Adobe Reader product.  If you are on anything older than Adobe Reader 9, you should upgrade to Adobe’s […]

If you have a corrupt recycle bin on your Windows 7 desktop, here is how you can fix it:    Click on the Start button In the search box type: CMD.EXE Do not click on CMD but rather highlight it and right click on it.

Anti-virus We operate under a very simple “best practice” premise for anti-virus. Workstations should have anti-virus that scans only the workstation and related memory sticks, etc. Servers should have anti-virus that scans only the server itself.

Printing for wireless users is often confusing I have a laptop.  I bring the laptop to work.  It sits on our wireless network.  My default printer is a nice shiny new Canon multifunction printer/copier/scanner/fax printer.   I go home.  The printer I use is an HP LaserJet 4000.   I routinely go to other locations which have […]

Microsoft TechNet discusses how to customize Office 2010 setup : https://tiny.cc/lks5i  

Microsoft had a problem with Internet Explorer 9 and Outlook Web App 2010. It appears that Microsoft has resolved the issue in a recent Internet Explorer 9 patch. You can read about the original issue here:  https://tiny.cc/8rh9w

If you are looking to automate your Microsoft Office 2010 installs, check out this resource.

There has been an interesting security change to Internet Explorer with cookies.  A recent Internet Explorer 9 update improves security, but can confuse the ability to  identify which cookies are good vs. bad. The update changes the way cookie files are named by randomizing the names as a security measure so that web site can’t store content in […]

A recent Microsoft update to Internet Explorer 9 has disabled the ability to do FILE:// inside Internet Explorer.   You can read about the change here.