Friday, 20th February, 2015
You may have seen reports in the media recently about something called “Superfish” on Lenovo laptops. Before I go into details, I want to stress one thing: According to a statement from Lenovo, “ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, Lenovo Desktop, ThinkStation, ThinkServer and System x products are not impacted.” This includes all Lenovo products sold by GC Support […]
Tuesday, 18th September, 2012
There’s lots of reports around today about a new vulnerability discovered affecting Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8 and 9 running on Windows XP, Vista and 7. For the moment it seems that Internet Explorer 10 running on Windows 8 is not affected, however only those in the business and the geeks […]
Friday, 13th April, 2012
Phil, also known as PryMal, who is a Tech Talk Radio listener, has sent me the following information: I’ve tripped over this recently and in case you’d not found a fix yet, it appears as though it was a botched update from MS that pushed 64bit code for IE which starts background at boot, into […]
Tuesday, 24th January, 2012
I’m chasing a strange issue. A number of machines on one of my sites have been affected, however I have no reports from other sites with similar setups. The machines are Windows XP Pro. SP3, are domain members and with Automatic Updates (direct from MS, no WSUS server) turned on. They have Office 2007 and […]