Two vulnerabilities in Quicktime for Windows have been reported since November 2015. Apple has decided to deprecate QuickTime for Windows rather than update it with a patch for these vulnerabilities. This incidently kills off the .mov format on Windows with this end-of-life. While QuickTime for Windows will continue to work, it is highly recommended to uninstall the unsupported … [Read more...]
Avast causes blue screen of death on Windows 8.1 for months
In late December 2015, an update to the Avast antivirus began causing daily blue screens of death on Windows 8.1 computer. I first became aware of the issue after a client that uses Avast complained of nearly daily BSoDs on most computers. This happened shortly after I had put in place the Registry settings to control the Windows 10 upgrade prompts and Get Windows 10 (GWX) … [Read more...]
Symantec Cloud portal suffers all-day outage
The portal to access and manage Symantec.cloud (the antivirus and other services hosted by Symantec in order to reduce the local infrastructure required) is suffering an outage that has been going on all day today. The company is not being very disclosing of the incident directly to customers or through social media channel despite being quite disruptive to their customers. The … [Read more...]
Car troubles? There’s an app for that!
This post brought to you by Urgent.ly. The content and opinions expressed below are that of 404 Tech Support. Have you ever wanted the convenience and peace of mind of a car service but did not want to pay the annual subscription for a service you may not even need? That's where Urgent.ly comes in. It's an on-demand roadside assistance service and you only pay when you use … [Read more...]
Protect your organization from ransomware by blocking macros in Office 2016 through Group Policy
Microsoft has updated the available Office 2016 Administrative Templates for Group Policy configuration. The updated admx files include new settings to block macros from running in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint presentations that originated from the Internet. Microsoft has provided this updated mitigation to provide control to a popular vector that malware, … [Read more...]