Category: Windows
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Windows XP SP 1 – not very secure!
The Denver Post carries a story which clearly shows just how insecure Windows XP SP1 is compared to other Operating Systems According to the story, StillSecure, a Louisville-based network security firm, connected six computers – with six operating systems – to the Internet for a week without any virus protection. Over the course of a…
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ISA Server 2004 causing 403 error on new website
A client contacted me recently because their copy of ISA Server was failing to publish two new websites they had in their data center behind the ISA Server firewall. I called in to have a look and at first glance everything seemed to have been configured correctly. However, when I checked the public IP addresses…
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How to rid a PC of viruses and malware
My parents have asked me to look at their neighbours PC – it has started ‘acting funny’ and “they think it might have a virus”, I was told. “Uh oh”, I thought. Here we go again. If you are the local IT guru you know this feeling well. And, is it just me or is…
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Internet Explorer use falling further still
I note that eWeek are reporting that usage of Microsoft’s internet Explorer has fallen another 1.5% to 90.3%. Of course, what is amazing, to me, is that over 90% of people are still using internet Explorer! Still, I shouldn’t complain, a lot of my business these days is coming from people whose PC’s have been…
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ISA Server error 12217
A client was having an intermittant error on websites he is hosting on one of his servers. The error was occurring only on some pages and only some of the time. The error message displayed was “The request was rejected by the HTTP filter. Contact your ISA Server administrator. (12217)”. He asked me to have…
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Security center could not change your automatic updates settings
I was working on a friends PC the other day. It had Windows XP Home on it and several viruses! After cleaning out the viruses, I updated the PC to XP SP 2 to get the security advantages that the service pack confers. However, on re-starting the PC after the install, the Security Centre gave…