It used to be a more common practice of the big antivirus companies where they would rank top actresses to find which took you to the most malware-rigged pages. You could search the Web for that actress and so many of the search engine results would take you to bad pages using that keyword. In this case, McAfee has ranked Marvel and DC superheroes based on how many are used to … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2014
Hiking the Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 Beta
If you signed up for the Mac OS X Yosemite beta, it is now available through the Mac App Store. Apple started sending out emails yesterday with a link to the Appleseed site and Beta redemption, providing a redemption code and link to get Yosemite from the Mac App Store. The download continues after signing in with your AppleID. It's 5.07GB in size, so it might take a little … [Read more...]
Creating a Mac OS X Yosemite bootable USB
Creating a bootable USB drive Mac OS X installer can save you time and bandwidth when you have a few Macs you want to update or you want a backup copy of your operating system installer. Fortunately, it's pretty straight forward to create a USB installer for the latest OS X Yosemite, currently in beta, and the process is the same as OS X 10.9 Mavericks. You will have to apply … [Read more...]
Happy SysAdmin Day 2014!
Happy SysAdmin Day to all of the IT Pros that go above and beyond! Enjoy the day, hopefully your co-workers show some appreciation for all of your hard work and technical expertise. Don't forget to also show appreciation for them even if there isn't a day dedicated to HR, Accountants, faculty, and all the other jobs in your organization. Appreciate some SysAdmin humor with … [Read more...]
Symantec Endpoint Protection giving Trojan.Webkit!html false positive
Symantec Endpoint Protection is flagging files called sh165.htm from people's Temporary Internet Files as a Trojan.Webkit!html. My Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager is currently reporting hundreds of the detections around the organization. The file is found at the multiple paths depending on the browser used. The file detected as a Trojan webkit might also be named … [Read more...]