Just got done reading a post on The Register about another of those pesky vulnerabilities on Internet Explorer that glorius browser people still seem to be in love with. I do work for a financial institution and we can say that there are still close to 60% of our visitors are accessing the site with some version of Internet Explorer. I find it not only frustrating to see this, but down right idiotic on the side of end-users. People would be much safer if they chose to at least access their online banking, or did their online shopping with a safer browser such as Firefox, Google Chrome, or even Opera.

What I see as a glaring issue here is that there seems to be no acountability on end users to properly secure their computers. When and if there ever is any accountability placed these issues may become less of a ...

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Just found out about a very good new tool that Google has developed caled Namebench. What it is designed to do is scour the DNS servers available to you and find the fastest one available. It uses data from your browser history. It does require you to go out ad physically input the DNS IP information that it provides you however. This is relatively easy. You can goto Google's website to download the FREE application:

Once you have downloaded and installed the application, you pick your browser and let it run. It does take some time as it's a pretty thorough search of servers. It will come up with the servers and how much faster your browsing will be once you change to the recommended servers. Your primary and secondary servers can be input then by START/My Netwrk Places/View Network Connections/ - Right Click on your current ...

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As the new year gets going one of your resolutions should be thinking about simple things you can do to protect your data on your computer and make it less likely that someone will compromise your computer. Here are some of the simple reminders of things you can do:

1. This is still the easiest and most costly way of having your data on your computer compromised: DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS ON E-MAILS OR VISIT LINKS IN INSTANT MESSAGES FROM PEOPLE YOU DON"T KNOW. Even if you think it came from someone you know, make sure by either sending that person an e-mail or calling them on the phone and asking if they sent you the link.

Why is there only one rule you ask? That's a good question. What I have found in doing my own research and observing the day to day activity of how average ...

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