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Use up-to-date antivirus software and configure your firewall as tightly as you can without destroying the usability of your computer.
“Don’t fall for unsolicited e-mails trying to lure you in with free stuff or great deals — stick to well-reputed Web sites,” Theriault said. “There is no silver bullet here, but these tips will certainly make you a much less attractive and vulnerable target.”
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This is the scenario of the latest computer-animated film from Pixar, the studio on a winning streak after Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille. At the top of the US box office rankings and lauded by critics, it looks set to at least match the wild popularity of its predecessors. That is bound to translate into merchandise sales worth billions of pounds.
Toy retailers are gleeful at the prospect of stocking a cute, lovable robot that looks a little like ET and sounds similar to R2-D2. In the coming weeks, expect to see Wall-E action figures, Wall-E sweets, Wall-E greetings cards, Wall-E puzzles, Wall-E video games and Wall-E shoes that leave tracks like the robot’s caterpillar treads. As parents are about to discover, Wall-E is an early favourite to be the must-have toy this Christmas.
“That’s a Microsoft problem. I don’t support Microsoft.”
I could easily imagine the sort of thing happened in a software-a-la-carte world.
Although changing software models seem likely to disrupt the channel and possibly disintermediate it for the short term, I can also see a longer term scenario in which the role of the channel is actually strengthened by the end customers’ need to have someone in their court who can maintain the context of the overall solution and function as the honest broker among the vendors.
Sound familiar? The more the role of the channel changes, the more it stays the same. But channel programs are likely to change to accommodate the new model. And how those programs will need to change in order to maximize results is exactly the question that is keeping vendor executives awake at night.
Writing on the Liveside blog, Kip Kniskern spotted a job ad for Microsoft in April that seeks a software design engineer to work on the “Microsoft Utility Computing Platform,” which according to the ad “will lead the marketplace as the best platform for rapid development, deployment, and maintenance of internet services and applications.”
The new platform will feature an “efficient, virtualized” environment with a “fully automated service management system” providing “highly scalable” storage services — as with EC2 you only use the storage you need. The service will “scale to millions of machines” across Microsoft’s data centers, the advertisement added.
Basing its Web-based strategy on a “software-plus-services” approach that combines traditional packaged software with cloud offerings, Microsoft officials have made a series of public statements over the last 18 months that make it clear that the Redmond, Wash.
Chris Becker, an assistant county prosecutor, said Dean stole the money from January 2004 to October 2007 while she was an accounting clerk for Sonitrol and Yps Integrated Systems.
In some cases, Becker said, Dean would simply make out company checks to “Cash” and cash them.
In other instances, he explained, Dean would make out a check to a vendor on the computer. She would put a stickie note over the “pay to” section of the check. She would then print out the check, remove the stickie note and type in her name for cashing.
In this way, Becker said, the computer would show that a check was issued to the vendor when it hadn’t been.
Becker said any order from Judge Kontos would include restitution to the companies.
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Specialist USB guitar adaptors with recording software, such as StealthPlug are available, but the simplest option is to connect the headphone output from your amplifier to the PC’s line input. As for recording, Audacity is your best free bet.
Have I lost it all?
Q: I have a 8GB pen drive, to back up Word documents, photos and video clips. It worked fine for five months then suddenly, on opening a picture, only half the image showed. A message appeared saying that no preview was available and no files could be opened. I removed the drive correctly and reinserted it but this time the PC wouldn’t recognise it. I have tried it on another PC and laptop with the same result.
Joe Grun, by email
A: The drive could be faulty and in most cases that would be an end of it, but more often than not all that’s happened is the drive’s filing system or partition information has become corrupt.
For years, the Redmond, Wash., software giant’s Windows operating system and Office suite of applications have dominated the computer software market. Some 90% of the world’s personal computers run on a version of Windows. Computer makers bundle Windows, as well as Office applications, with new machines, driving revenue.
Now competitors are chipping away at Microsoft’s primacy. Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) operating system is catching on with corporate buyers, while the freely distributed Linux system is starting to appeal to tech-savvy consumers.
Meanwhile, “cloud computing,” a broad term for applications distributed and hosted online, has tempted competitors like International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Google Inc. (GOOG) and Salesforce.com (CRM) to enter the business software market.
But it leaves the PCs themselves to computer-makers. Apple makes not only the Mac OS X operating system and software applications, but also its own computers.
Microsoft’s approach generally results in a wider variety of hardware, but it also complicates matters for the company. More than a few of the glitches that followed Vista’s January 2007 retail release were caused by compatibility problems with computers and devices. Although any new operating system can experience problems, the challenge was greater with Windows Vista because of a series of technical changes Microsoft made in an effort to improve security.
In his e-mail to employees last week, Ballmer wrote that Microsoft will try new ways to overcome those kinds of challenges, not only with PCs but also with phones, where Microsoft similarly offers an operating system but not a device.
Antivirus software uses signatures to detect viruses. Virus writers use all kinds of techniques to circumvent detection. It’s a lot harder to circumvent detection when the exploit is in plain text format. I don’t think it is difficult to see why Windows is so easily owned compared to other operating systems. The necessecity of running as administrator because of backwards compatibility makes it low hanging fruit for crackers. Just visiting a web page with a Windows XP machine can lead to the entire operating system being taken over because a single flaw in the client is turned in root access without any privilege escalation necessary. Tricking users into installing software is one thing but automated root access is something only Windows gives up so easily. A lot more user interaction is required in Linux to install and propogate malware.
