With all the media hype about conficker, I thought you might like a good collection of trustworthy resources. Beware of websites that have recently registered as “conficker help.” In fact, just avoid them all together. There’s also reports of malicious software masquerading as detection and cleaning tools for Conficker-infected computers, as well as spam offering the same.
There’s no need to try and figure out what’s safe or real and what has more sinister plans in mind. The good folks at dshield.org have been keeping an updated list of third party information on conficker. Here you can find plenty of free conficker detection and removal tools, general information and the microsoft patch. That should help keep you updated, safe and informed.
I’ve also found out about one other real neat way of detecting it, but it’s for more advanced users, so I’m going to make a seperate post about it.
It was 20 years ago Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Not quite 20 years to the day, but close enough. In this Ted talk, Tim talks about what is the next step in the evolution of the World Wide Web.
Seeing how I’m now running Word Press, it only makes sense that I would tell you about Word Press TV. If you are running Word Press, or are just thinking about using it, you owe it to yourself to give this site a look.
Even though it’s only been up for maybe 2 months, there’s a lot of great content. There’s plenty of How-To videos, for beginners to advanced users. There’s videos about administration, set-up, widgets, publishing, media, plugins, themes, custom design, and more. There is also a section of videos from Word Camp.
I wanted to write about Word Press TV when it first went live, but I haven’t actully spent any amount of time on it, untill recently. Most of them are using vimeo to host their videos, so the quality is execlent. Theses aren’t some junky, pixalated Youtube videos. They are high quality and when I viewed them with HD turned on, the screen captures of in the how-to videos was perfect and crisp and easy to read the all the text in the videos. Even when not in full screen or HD you can read them easily. If only everyone made instructional videos at this quality. Check out the example below.
Getting set up with the WP e-Commerce plugin: settings and configuration
In case you’ve missed it on the news, there is a big security hole in Internet Explorer. Usually Microsoft puts out updates on the first Tuesday of the month and for them to release a security update at any other time, indicates how bad it is. If you haven’t already run Windows Update today, I highly recommend you do so ASAP. Be sure to reboot your computer after the update so it finishes the install. You can also head over to Microsoft and read more about it by clicking here.
For all those who upgraded to Windows Vista on their current XP machine, this is no surprise. When Vista came out, I set up my best computer as a dual boot. When I fired up my computer, I could choose Vista or XP. To make a long story short, I completely removed Vista after about a month of use.
Now someone has done “real world” tests of Vista vs XP on 3 of his computers. It comes as no surprise to me, or anyone else who has tried a Vista upgrade, that it is slower than XP.
The article is well written and explains all the places that Vista suffers performance decreases. You can find it here at The Register / regdeveloper
Oh Microsoft, after all those years of development, why have you done this to us?
There’s no need to try and figure out what’s safe or real and what has more sinister plans in mind. The good folks at dshield.org have been keeping an updated list of third party information on conficker. Here you can find plenty of free conficker detection and removal tools, general information and the microsoft patch. That should help keep you updated, safe and informed.
