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Setting up a new Windows PC?
News For office workstations and PCs installed by network administrators, much of this preliminary work will have already been done, but for home PCs these steps are essential. If your new PC is at work, chances are that all of the "necessary...
[November 2, 2005, 10:40]
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.3 review
Reviews For example, Spybot is the only spyware-cleansing program we tested that detected other anti-spyware programs installed on our system, and it properly warned us about false-positive results caused by running multiple anti-spyware programs.
[May 17, 2004, 11:35]
MoD: Tech scheme not 'unmitigated disaster'
News It has told GC News that thousands of new IT terminals are being installed each month, and that changes in the programme have been made to respond to the demands created by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
IBM to build biggest German supercomputer
News The new computer, worth well over $10m (£6.4m), was purchased by Germany's Juelich Research Center and will be installed next year at its Central Institute for Applied Mathematics, otherwise known as ZAM.
[August 16, 2002, 8:51]
Free memory test
News Another advantage to using a bootable CD for Memtest86 is that by doing so, you can test a PC regardless of what operating system is actually installed. But like many other memory testers out there, Memtest86 is unable to test 100 percent of a...
[March 27, 2003, 11:23]
Apple flaws put both Macs and PCs at risk
News Apple's security update 2006-003 for Mac OS X and the QuickTime patch can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences or from the Apple Downloads Web site. Serious flaws in Mac OS X and QuickTime software could put Macintosh and...
[May 15, 2006, 9:35]
The Cheese worm: A welcome helper?
News A back door installed by the 1i0n worm waits for data on port 10008. In some cases, yes, it will remove the back door," said Kevin Houle, leader of the artifact analysis team at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Centre at...
[May 17, 2001, 9:56]
DebbieToo has a brother named paqman and HIT * chores
Blog I dumped some more RAM into it, found a 80 GB drive that was inexpensive and he's in business running shrink-wrapped XP Home Edition installed on the system. Her computer tried to reboot 3 times even after I held the front panel power switch down!
[July 7, 2008, 9:48]
Lock floppy drives on Windows 2000 Pro machines with Floplock.exe
News When installed and running on a Windows 2000 Professional computer, Floplock.exe uses a discretionary access control list (DACL) to prevent access to the floppy disk. From the conception of the first computer virus, floppy disks have posed a very...
[December 21, 2005, 10:50]
Botnet worm exploits Symantec flaw
News When installed on a PC, both Spybot and Big Yellow open a back door in the system and connect to an Internet Relay Chat server to let the remote attacker control the compromised computer. The fact that a bug in Symantec's widely used security...
[December 18, 2006, 9:02]
IBM aims blades at Japan
News ClearCube pioneered the market and has installed Pentium-based blade systems contracts with Wall Street firms and US military bases. The actual computer sits in a rack with hundreds of other PCs in rack in a computer room.
[February 25, 2004, 10:05]
US court debates software patent spat
News Microsoft has conceded in earlier stages of litigation that its Windows object code, when copied and installed onto computers, leads to infringement of AT&T's patent. Rather, the master disc acted as a sort of blueprint, copied and installed by...
[February 22, 2007, 17:04]
Linux holds out against attackers
News Moreover, the report does not specify what version of Windows XP had been running on the systems that had been compromised and whether any Service Pack upgrades had been installed. The results are probably due to two trends, said Lance Spitzner...
[December 23, 2004, 8:20]
Henpeck worm cons MSN chat crowd
News Still, victims whose computers have been infected with the worm are likely to have had a "backdoor" program installed. The program, known as BKDR_EVILBOT.A, allows an online vandal to use the infected computer as a platform from which to launch...
[October 11, 2002, 7:47]
Remote control with VNC
News In fact, the viewer portion of the software doesn't even have to be installed on a PC. The term "ATM network computer" is somewhat misleading, however; the Videotile wasn't actually a computer but rather a display device with an LCD screen, a...
[May 21, 2002, 11:36]
Inveneo Computing Station review
Reviews The Computing Station is also available with Windows XP installed. The Inveneo Computing Station is a complete mini-desktop computer, with the system unit mounted on the back of a 14.1in. Our review system had both operating systems loaded on the...
[February 19, 2008, 11:41]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix "Acid Test" - Wrap-Up
Blog In both cases, UNR was a significant improvement over the operating system that was previously installed on the netbook. UNR installed and worked flawlessly, and my neighbor has been using it happily ever since.
[July 8, 2009, 8:03]
Compaq copies HP pricing plan
News Part of the computing-on-demand initiative involves a customer option to buy computer or storage systems with extra computing power installed but not switched on. Compaq has come up with its own variant of a Hewlett-Packard plan that allows...
[July 18, 2001, 13:48]
Microsoft backs down over Vista complaints
News We are creating a new set of APIs to ensure that Windows Security Center will not send an alert to a computer user when an alternative competing security console is installed on the PC and is sending the same alert instead," Microsoft said in a...
[October 16, 2006, 8:35]
Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment So, since I have been playing around with linux distros for a while but never really got the feeling that they would convince me to switch and never look back, I took my laptop to the test and installed ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn).
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
