Digg recently introduced the DiggBar to all links to articles from its site. This bar at the top of a page allows you to digg or bury an article, share it via e-mail, twitter, or facebook, and more. Personally, I don't like it. I found myself closing it every time I was looking at an article redirected from Digg. If I wanted to share a link, I'd get the original source … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned Virus Fighting
Last weekend I saw a pretty fierce virus infection and during this week at work I've seen a couple of infections as well. Through these events, I've made a few notes, learned a few things, and polished some procedures for fighting viruses quickly and efficiently. These steps are, in my opinion, best practice to remove anything from your everyday malware, worms, and viruses, on … [Read more...]
Silverlight Causes My Mouse to Freeze!
Recently, I was sent to a webpage that used Silverlight and it caused a weird type of crash on my computer. It seems to be any Silverlight page that causes the issue. For consistency, I performed my check with two sites that I knew were using Silverlight and initially caused the … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Support Your Favorite Sites
Money makes the world go round as well as the World Wide Web. The revenue generating aspects of the Internet is very apparent, they practically pop-up (or pop-under) at you, but it doesn't always click with people when they are browsing a website how ads and other means are related to being able to provide content. Unfortunately, there are some up-front costs with running a … [Read more...]
RegFromApp – List Registry Changes
RegFromApp is a freeware utility from NirSoft that allows you monitor writes to the Registry from a specific process. This is more fine-grain than SysInternals RegMon making it a great complement, but not a replacement. You could use RegFromApp to monitor an installation process or an executable that you're launching for the first time. I anticipate this will greatly help with … [Read more...]