Just shy of the two year anniversary of when a McAfee antivirus definition contained a false positive that crippled Windows XP systems around the world, it seems the company is at it again. A McAfee Knowledge Base article describes the issue DAT 6682 is having with McAfee security for certain email products. McAfee has confirmed that incremental DAT 6682 may trigger message … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
Best Practices in Active Directory
Microsoft TechNet Edge has a great collection of videos. One that I would like to call your attention to is this Active Directory Best Practices: Ten Years Later. If you touch the AD at all, I'd encourage you to watch the 55 minute video. It's broken down into different sections like organizing OUs, managing sites, and extreme consoles. Even if you have been using the Active … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Windows 7 includes Copy as Path on the context menu
I was a bit bummed when setting up my work computer recently that one of my trusty favorites, the Lammer Context menu, caused Windows Explorer.exe to crash on every right-click. (It still works well at home though.) I was disappointed to not have this tool for the two things I use frequently out of it: Copy the file's path and calculate checksum. Be bummed no more! Windows 7 … [Read more...]
Drag racing websites to compare speed
If you want to compare two website's loading time, you should check out whichloadsfaster.com. The service allows you to see which website loads faster and by what factor. It suggests some random matchups when you first visit the page like Google v. Bing, Apple v. Adobe, Amazon v. Shopzilla, and TMZ v OMG! but it's more useful for running your own tests on websites you are … [Read more...]
The irony of ordering Amazon.com for Dummies from Amazon.com
Hopefully I'm not the only one that gets a little chuckle out of this. I think if somebody can manage to order this book, they don't need it and if they can't manage to order the book, they are going to be frustrated beyond measure. Oh, and not to mention that it's the Kindle edition of Amazon.com For Dummies. … [Read more...]