by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY
Wecykler is a family of worms, that shares some similarities with the Worm:Win32/Autorun family, in that it takes advantage of removable drives attached to an infected system in order to propagate to other machines. They target users’ familiarity with the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, SECURITY
Have you ever wondered which exploit kits are the most prevalent? We have been tracking several exploit kits that we have identified these past few months and it’s interesting to see which gets the biggest chunk of the pie: 56% of the coverage is owned by only...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 12, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals
Windows 8 brought a brand new task manager with tons of new features, but it can be a little bit confusing if you were accustomed to the old way of doing things. Here are a few ways to customize the interface. The task manager was redesigned to be easier to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Recently Facebook decided that in addition to visual notifications, it would start making a “beeping sound” when you receive a new notification. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that annoying beep. Note: this “feature” hasn’t been rolled out across all...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 8, 2013 | Blog Entry, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technicals
Windows 8 received a decent amount of enhancements on the desktop side that I tend to appreciate versus running Windows 7, even if that means I get Metro standing in the middle here and there occasionally. One such area of improvement is notification management and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven’t ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you get your feet wet with Apache on a Linux server. You’ll...