If you haven’t noticed, spammers have gotten trickier over the past few months - most of us have seen an uptick in the amount of spam that’s getting through the filters.
For those interested, here’s a good analysis of how they’re getting past the electronic guards.
A client was nice enough to forward a warning that Quickbooks 2006 must be at the latest patch level before it will work with Microsoft’s updated Internet Explorer 7 browser. This posting mentions that QB2005 users don’t have a patch yet (if ever?)
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Here’s an interesting chart from Consumer Reports regarding laptop reliability. According to their findings, it doesn’t matter what you buy, there’s a good chance it’s going to break.
Even though Vista’s release is just around the corner, you might need a new PC right away. But how much will that jump to the Vista operating system cost you?
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One of my clients recently had an emergency with their email system. Many of their customers’ servers were rejecting their messages, because my client was supposedly sending out spam.
We scoured their computers, but didn’t find any zombie systems that would normally be responsible for such behavior. But the firewall logs were showing emails being delivered directly from the client computers, which made no sense at all as they were using an email server.
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One of the first tasks I have to contend with when I’m brought into a new office is computer cleanup. And the first question on my client’s lips?
“Why is my PC so slow?”