I’m seeing an increase in clients with virus/malware problems this week, and I’m also aware that there are some significant security updates that users should apply. If you haven’t lately, I would recommend doing the Windows updates very soon (including an important Internet Explorer update) and also applying the latest Adobe Reader updates, which also [...]
Anti-Virus software
On January - 12 - 2010
Choosing the right anti-virus software can be difficult, partly because it’s very hard to compare them, partly because it depends on what is important to you, and partly because the landscape keeps changing. Do you want the one that is the best at detecting viruses, or the one that is best is removing viruses, or [...]
Backup now!
On January - 3 - 2010
Like the leaves of Autumn, your hard drive will die. Your hard drive is where all you stuff is stored. Please make sure that the things that are important to you, like your photos, email, documents, addressbook, and financial/tax data are stored in at least two places. If you have a copy on a USB [...]
Adjusting SaskTel’s Filters (aka whitelisting an email address)
On January - 1 - 2010
Do you wish SaskTel’s email filters were more aggressive, or more lenient? Or maybe more importantly, do you wish they would let email from les @ bitlink through? For reasons that SaskTel will not divulge, they tend to mark mail from Les @ bitlink.ca as JunkMail. But you can tell their filters of any address [...]
