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I find that this just reinforces the point that EVERYONE should be running AV software. I recently installed Symantec onto my girlfriends Macbook (she got a free OS X edition of their AV for free from school, so why not?) and actually found four infected files. Sure, her system itself wasn’t...

Update and Q Sorry to revive the old thread, but I have a question regarding the DGL-4500 and figured it’d be worth updating everyone on its current status since it remains the flagship gaming router for D-Link. First off, around the v1.02 or so firmware D-Link did manage to break things...

Novell had my hopes up a few years ago with some decent, and at times actually funny, commercials. Unfortunately I never saw them hit TV and they were pretty short-lived. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cldeHjFig_c&feature=fvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eTguZ5OzJ4...

That's how I use cipher actually. The tool has a few functions, but cipher /W wipes the free space of a drive with a three-pass wipe; once with 0x00, once with 0xff, and once with random numbers, respectively. When I decommission a drive I typically just format it, attach if as a secondary...

Well, having a background in IT security let me fill in some of the gaps. This is kind of from a different angle than the original article though; more about making sure data is actually deleted rather than trying to make sure it’s recoverable. The fundamental principal that makes recovery of...

Good news for me. I already have a consulting gig on Monday to fix some workstations that ran into this issue. As for AV, I can't recommend not running one this day and age. I've tried...literally a dozen or two, but these days I run Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). It's light-weight...

DAMN that for being inaccurate. I was very excited at the idea of SSD/RAID. I do a ton of work from home, so I've always minimized downtime by going with RAID1. One drive fails; I just hop on Newegg to order a replacement and never worry about it. The increased read performance is of course a...

Just a quick thought on security since that's my primary focus. I find that Linux tends to have more options and to implement technologies earlier, even by years (DEP, ASLR, etc.), but when Windows eventually gets around to implementing them and polishing them out Microsoft makes it a lot easier...