June 13th, 2008
A quick and interesting article over at blog.washingtonpost.com discusses the new emerging trend in anti-virus software technology.
It’s program whitelisting. The concept itself is of course not a new one. Have one big list with signature of benign ALLOWED programs, and any program not in the list is a suspect and will not be allowed to [...]
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April 24th, 2008
If you’ve been following this blog for some time, you know I’m working at Yoggie, a great company with great products.
As I’ve written before, Yoggie’s Gatekeeper Pico is essentially a USB-sized miniature computer running Linux and a full Internet security suite, so you just stick it into the USB port of a Windows machine and [...]
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March 15th, 2008
For years I’ve been the technical support call center for, mainly, my mother. She’s had to work with a computer for the last decade or so, with a specific industry software. She can, mechanically, perform all the actions necessary to control that specific application - But anything beyond that is completely beyond her.
Naturally, throughout these [...]
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February 21st, 2008
If you’re an iPod owner, or like me, an iPhone owner, you have no choice but to use iTunes for uploading your MP3 collection.
One super-cool feature is downloading the album cover art for all your songs and that cool 3D like browsing through album covers - But guess what? You must have an iTunes account [...]
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