Solutions Superguide: 529 Tips for Better Computing

Monday, April 21st, 2008

There's a ton of information in your computer's user manual, but it's also hundreds of pages long. To become a real power user, you could read through the entire thing, memorizing the details on each page. Or you could turn to PC Magazine. For this very special feature, we'll boil down ...

Tracking down Firefox plug-ins

Monday, April 14th, 2008

My last posting was about upgrading the Adobe Flash Player, a Web browser plug-in. Adobe Systems just released a new version that fixes critical bugs in older versions, so everyone should update to the latest version. Adobe's Flash tester page displays the version of the Flash Player being used by your ...

Active exploitation of Excel vulnerability

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The US-CERT has published a warning on active exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, described in Microsoft Security Advisory 947563. We can confirm these attacks and have been tracking several exploits over the last few days. It should be noted that the incidents we are aware of have been limited to a very ...