Let’s continue this mini blog-a-thon by talking about a concept called Defense In Depth. In essence, this is really nothing more than not relying on any one system to protect your computer.
There’s actually a very good reason for this. If one component of your defense mechanism fails, you have a fallback system. Think of it [...]
This post will be short and sweet, so to speak…
This post on Sunbelt Software’s blog talks about the test that I’ve been referring to in the past few blog posts. While their blog is a great resource, it *can* get a bit more technical than the average user needs at times, but since I relied [...]
OK, so you now know about the free version of Avast! anti-virus software. Just how does it stack up?
I’m about to reveal to you one of my favorite sources of computer security information — Sunbelt Software’s blog. I’ve known about Sunbelt Software since 2001 when I was working for a customer that needed patch management, [...]
Here are a few important links regarding this anti-virus software detection capabilities study. I recommend that you take a look at the results to see how your anti-virus software compares. And since I’m not selling any anti-virus software from this blog, I’m not going to make any comparisons between products; I’ll leave that up to [...]
There’s a lot of hype surrounding the marketing and sales of anti-virus software. After all, no matter how well or how poorly the software performs, if nobody purchases the software, the companies are out of luck, aren’t they?
Even that statement is not completely true. More on that to come.
First, I’m going to call attention to [...]
This is the first post for my mini blog-a-thon. I’m doing it at the invitation of Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian, a pediatric cardiac surgeon in Chennai, India who also happens to be a pretty good marketer and (speaking as a retired soldier) the kind of guy you’d want to share a foxhole with: reliable, dependable, good [...]
I just got an email from Dr. Mani (does he ever sleep?) asking me if everything was ready for tomorrow’s mini blog-a-thon. I responded to let him that I’m ready, except for one thing: the weather.
You see, the weather has taken a drastic turn… for the better — and with winter fast approaching in this [...]
For the first time since the end of 2002 I’m going to be working a regular Monday through Friday schedule for more than a week or two. It’s a welcome change, but along with it comes some major schedule adjustments. It really does feel strange working like a normal person and getting a weekend!
Along with [...]
I received an email in my Inbox the other day from a marketer who told a story about how he had purchased a new PC, but after a year or so, he ended up purchasing a new laptop because that still-almost-new machine had slowed to a crawl. It cost him almost $2,000 for the new [...]
OK, so James Brausch tells me about an interesting experiment that Armand Morin is conducting. I looked at it earlier and although it consisted of English words, it looked like the stuff that spammers generate when they are trying to get their garbage past spam filters. Now I go there, I get a 404 error, [...]