In the accelerating race against viruses and malware, a trade-off we are seeing more frequently are the false-positives. Companies like Avast, McAfee, and others have all experienced them and last week was Sophos' turn. The company's anti-virus software would report that "'Virus/spyware' Shh/Updater-B has been detected and moved to quarantine" on Windows computers. … [Read more...]
Silently install CutePDF Writer without the Ask toolbar
CutePDF Writer is a neat little utility that installs a printer on your computer. Anything that you print to that printer (documents, images, web pages, etc.) gets saved as a .PDF file. I like this sort of utility because they're free ways to create PDF files and I find that to be an even better print preview function and it saves paper when I can keep things digitally. The … [Read more...]
Malwarebytes launches Enterprise Edition
Malwarebytes has announced an enterprise edition of their well-known antimalware product. MalwareBytes is a free malware scanner for home use with a paid counterpart that enables real-time protection and other features. The company has also reorganized their products with Malwarebytes Small Business for less than 100 endpoints and now has Malwarebytes Enterprise Edition for … [Read more...]
Windows-on-ARM details explained through Office on Windows RT
Windows 8 is bringing with its general release on October 26th a number of changes. Windows RT which will arrive on the same day on Window RT devices will naturally be much more different as it has a new architecture and hardware under the surface. Trying to get a feel for what is coming in Windows RT has been a little difficult with sparse information out there. Microsoft … [Read more...]
Stardock brings back the Start Menu to Windows 8 with Start8
One of the easy criticisms of Microsoft's Windows 8 is the missing Start Menu button. There are a few annoyances associated with the changes made in this version of the operating system but the missing Start button seems like the low-hanging fruit when you realize there are people out there that will see this as a steep learning curve. Microsoft has stood firm on the Start … [Read more...]