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stamping out malware
A past student mentioned a virus problem that he had on his work computer. He suggested that it was sourced from an e-mail on Thunderbird. I did some research on the web, learning a couple of new things and good suggestions on this discussion thread that considered "Is an e-mail scanner neccessary".
The Thunderbird website reports that:
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Fixing a sick PC
A colleague and good friend dropped past with his sick home computer. Somehow it had become infected with a swag of stuff including SpySheriff, a corrupt illegally distributed anti-spyware program. After removing the Spyware, we took about 30 to install some additional precautions to improve his system security including:- Thunderbird e-mail client, ( Read more... )
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Tag, your IT
Things are getting serious with these web 2.0 companies. IT News mentions that Yahoo has purchased del.icio.us as they have already with Flickr. Back in September I did have a look at social bookmarking using Furl. Today I registered a del.icio.us account and give it another look in. It integrates nicely into Firefox and Thunderbird on my computer ( Read more... ) -
Firefox leading IE
An article in Forbes recently reported that Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser will adopt the Firefox RSS feed icon. The company announced on a blog that the orange square with white radio waves will become the new industry standard. -
Digging for gold
I have been gently digging at some Australian ISPs', noting the poor support information that they provide to their users for the popular alternative Mozilla Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail clients. This is easy to spot when only alternative support information provided is for the older Netscape Navigator client. I sometimes offer to provide ( Read more... ) -
MozOO.org and TheOpenCD.org
Using an Open Source software collections is a better way for schools to distribute some well integrated and free software applications to students than dishing out multiple bits of software on different cd-roms. Here are two that were just pointed out to me
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