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New additions to Ed's Excellent Toolkit

Hit the Toolkit button at the top of this page and you will find some great additions to our  weapons for combating malware: Microsoft Security Essentials,  Comboxfix, and SUPERAntispyware.  The best news is that they are free or have good freemium services, i.e. they can work for free but offer some additional services etc. if you pay a subscription.  A good example is our favorite Malware Bytes. The free version does a great job hunting down viruses and other malware but it is not active all the time, unless you pay a yearly subscription of $24.95; then it actively hunts for, stops and/or destroys the malware before it has a chance to infect your machine.



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WordPress Fighting Off Second Wave of Attacks

Hackers have tried for the last two days to shut down WordPress.  The hosting service is home to 18 million blogs including some of the Internet’s most influential commentators.  Cyber thugs have bombarded the WordPress servers for two days with DDOS (Directed Denial of Service) attacks.  “This is the largest and most sustained attack we’ve seen in our six-year history. We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs but we’re still investigating and have no definitive evidence yet.” according to Matt Muellenberg, WordPress founder.


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Quick Fix for Win 7 SP1 update installation errors

Seems that Microsoft made a bit of a hash of the recent SP1 release to Windows 7. Here is a cure for what may ail some of you who had the installation go sideways!  Imagine that!


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US Broadband Coverage Map

The Federal government has created a web site that depicts the nation broadband internet  access based on the 2009 census.  The census information basically tell us that 10% of the nation does not have access to high speed internet and those area that do have the access, 68% pay for the service.  The US government site, http://www.broadbandmap.gov/, provides an interactive map that allows you to search an areas for Internet provides but the graphics are very poor and the site very slow.  I had better luck just entering in my city, state and zip code.  Read entire article here http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com/topics/dark-fiber/articles/146265-national-broadband-map-goes-live.htm
Ed Rudel


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Check out Ed Rudel's Posts on the Internet Advisor Facebook Page

If you are on Facebook, just look up Internet Advisor, “like” us and you will be alerted every time we find something interesting going on in the world of computing during the week when we are not on the air on WJR in Detroit.  Ed Rudel, Gary, Cal and Foster all throw in some interesting tidbits.  Just click on the Find us on Facebook on the right hand side of the homepage and you’re in business.  See you there!


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Microsoft Open New Tech Center in Michigan

Tues., Feb. 1, Governor Rick Snyder and Microsoft GM John Fikany hosted a joint news conference announcing the official opening of the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC).  The facility opening showcases Microsoft’s continued investment in the state of Michigan and featured Chrysler Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Scott Sandschafer, Wayne State University students and Lawrence Tech University faculty, highlighting the company’s passion for innovation and commitment to the community.  Gary Baker covered the event for WJR and the Internet Advisor.


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CNet Reviews Verizon's iPhone 4

Check out this complete review including video of the iPhone 4 that has just been release on Verizon.  You can almost hear AT&T holding its breath and crossing its fingers and toes.  Personally, I would just go for an unbroken phone call on my iPhone 3GS on AT&T.  Foster Braun


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Is the End of Spam Near?

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Wouldn’t it be a wonderful 13th anniversary gift for the Internet Advisor to celebrate the end of spam? Pipe dream?  Maybe not as impossible as you think!!!


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Bug Hits All Versions of Internet Explorer

“Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Internet Explorer on all Microsoft Windows editions. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure.  IE has over 900 million users worldwide.  Microsoft has published a one-click “Fix it” workaround for the bug that involved locking down MHTML. This will prevent the launch of script in all zones within an MHTML document. Any application that uses MHTML will be affected by this workaround.” Full Article.


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Why the iPad won't replace the newspaper!

A daily news app is coming to the iPad that is a collaboration between Apple and Newsday corporation, but it will have one shortcoming.


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