Symantec's Backup Exec was the incumbent go-to backup software or appliance. It was their race to lose and in recent years, they had done almost everything they can to give up that position. Interface changes and lagging support for new operating systems had customers looking elsewhere. Customers were fleeing to competition like Veeam and others just to be rid of Symantec's … [Read more...]

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware recently released version 2.00.2.1012. When MBAM prompted that it need to install a program update, I told it to install the update but received an error message in return. "Please login as an administrator to install the new version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware." I was logged in as a local administrator and Malwarebytes was running from its … [Read more...]

Do you have tons of extra RAM in your system? It has come down in price quite a bit so you could have much more than you need. How about using it in a virtual hard drive to make use of that extra hardware? A RAM drive will empty its contents when the computer restarts, which could be a desirable function. It will also be significantly faster than your traditional spinning-disk … [Read more...]