Stay away from Microsoft consumer antivirus and antispam engines

Microsoft Live OneCare is a consumer product which provides antivirus, antispyware, and backup facilities. It costs $50 per year to protect upto 3 PC systems.
Windows Defender is mainly an anti-spyware technology implemented by Microsoft.
Although it’s great to see that Microsoft are bundling security tools for free (in the case of Windows Defender), or at […]

91% of web sites are hackable…find out what to do about it

Acunetix recently reported that:

… on average, 91% of the Web sites scanned contained some form of Web site vulnerability. Those exploits ranged from the more serious, such as SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting, to more minor ones, like local path disclosure or directory listing.

Out of 3,200 sites scanned, 70% had vulnerabilities with either […]

bye bye Google Desktop…it was fun while it lasted

In order to assist you in digging out content that’s buried deep in the abyss of your hard disk folders, many players have come to market to try to be the dominant desktop search provider.
The main players are: Google Desktop Search, Yahoo Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and Copernic Desktop Search.
I have used them all, […]