04 Aug 09 WordPress 2.8.3 security update – upgrade now; it’s easy and essential.
Short and sweet:
An important out-of-band update to WordPress has been released; 2.8.3 includes a security patch to fix unauthorized privilege escalation issues.
Since you all have 2.7 or higher (right) and online updating is easy… do it now!
Tags: IT Security, Software, WordPress, WordPress 2.7
08 Apr 09 TweetDeck 0.25 released ! Painless upgrade from 0.21.5
Well, TweetDeck is my current fave 3rd party Twitter tool to manage Tweets…
TweetDeck 0.25 was released and the online upgrade from 0.21.5 was quite smooth – actually seamless.
One of the most notable features I noticed is being able to select if your tweet will be posted to Twitter, Facebook, or both. This is a most welcome feature as I offer Twitter several times during the day and night, but don’t necessarily want to integrate those Tweets as part of my FB status…
Here’s a list of TweetDeck 0.25 feature updates from the official changelog: (more…)
28 Jan 09 Windows Live Messenger unable to connect with error code 80040200 – solution in Windows 7
Are you unable to log in to Windows Live Messenger and getting the error code 80040200 ? If so, you may wish to try the following which worked for me on Windows 7 (beta, build 7000) with Windows Live Messenger 2009 (final build 14.0.850.1202):
DISCLAIMER: make sure you have a backup of everything before proceeding, and use this information at your own risk and peril.
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Tags: 14.0.850.1202, 80040200, 8100030d, error messages, MSN Messenger, Software, Windows 7 Beta, Windows Live Messenger
19 Jan 09 Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7 automatically licensed to… Russian Federation ?!
Early rise this Monday morning…
So I’ve been testing the beta version of Windows 7 (Build 7000 at the moment) on a Dell Inspiron 6400… so far, I’m fairly impressed. But that’s not the subject of todays thought – or mystery.
After downloading the 43MB technical preview of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8 (AKA KAV 2009) for Windows 7, it goes through a fairly straightforward installation process. It politely asks if you want to disable the built-in Windows firewall and use Kaspersky Anti-Hacker instead. I chose to leave the Windows 7 firewall intact and running.
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Tags: IT Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.0 Technical Preview, Russian Federation, Software, Windows 7 Beta
12 Jan 09 Free 1 year subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus – $39.99 ? No way! $0.00 :-)
After a rough day at work (argh, backups, backups backups…) it was nice to come across this really nice deal:
It’s normally US $39.95 for 1 year, but McAfee has a deal to get VirusScan Plus free for 1 year! Add the $39.95 product to your cart and use promo code VSPPROMOCF to get it – free, legal and instant download with a year of updates.
You can decide if VirusScan is worth it and works well on your system. I use it on a regular basis, and the issue is not so much whether it detects virii or malware, but how much of your computer resources it uses.
Tags: bargains, Deals, IT Security, McAfee VirusScan, Software
