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Those of you considering Windows 7 can use AVG Internet Security, our recommended security suite, with the new operating system.  For those of you upgrading from Vista, you will probably need to reinstall the application and register your license key again.  Your remaining subscription time will remain in force.

AVG recently released version 9.0, which is available to current subscribers as a free upgrade.  PC World magazine recently featured a laboratory comparison of the top security suites, and AVG came in ...

Those of you who bought a Vista machine and hated it can take some comfort in knowing that it will be reasonably simple and not too expensive to upgrade to to the far superior Windows 7 operating system on Thursday.

I have run across several Personal Antivirus infections lately and just read an article on PC World that does a great job explaining what the attack looks like, but then revealed that on of the infected sites that Personal AV used to generate the fake pop-up warning was the New York Times web site.  I recommend you click on the link and read this article.  If you have been to that site lately and got a pop-up warning ...

Microsoft has released pricing details for Windows &, which is due to be released October 22. The first thing to know it that there is NO upgrade product to take you from Windows XP to Windows 7.  If you wish to upgrade your Windows XP machine, you will need to see if it is capable first, and then pay full price for the version of Windows 7 you install.

If you bought a Vista system in the since June 22 of ...

I found this article to be very interesting and entertaining.  Here is the link to PC World.

The ten biggest technology blunders listed in the article are:

• Yahoo fails to acquire Facebook in 2006.
• in 2000, Real Networks passed on the music player design that became the iPod
• Sony and Toshiba battle over HD-DVD standards starting in 2002.
• Digital Research, inventor of the CPM operating system, turns down IBM in 1980, opening the way for DOS and Microsoft
• Xerox invents the personal computer in ...

If you use Microsoft Outlook for reading your email, you will want to be on the lookout for an email message that appears to be generated by the Microsoft Outlook application.  It asks you to click on a link to “reconfigure your settings.”  This is not possible in the first place, and will instead take you to a website that will attempt to download and install some form of malware to take control of your computer and steal your information.

Those ...

Today (July 31) is SysAdmin Appreciation Day.  Find your computer guy and take him or her out to lunch.  Check out this site devoted to the event for information and cool gift ideas.  http://www.sysadminday.com/

Many of you have asked for the Expression Web schedule, and some of you have expressed interest in the LinkedIn (Social Networking and Blogging) class that I will be teaching.  A few of you are looking for other classes that I teach.

Well here they all are, listed below.

Yahoo released its quarterly financials and a spanking new portal page (www.yahoo.com) to go with it, as an offering of sorts to investors who were disappointed with the financials.  Well – it’s something, I guess.

I just can’t get worked up about portal pages, I don’t care if it’s Comcast (my ISP), MSN, Yahoo, or whoever.  I do have a Yahoo ID, (bobwyzguy) which is a relic from an job long lost where we used Yahoo IM to keep ...

Dear Email Forwarders – (you know who you are)

I get a number of emails every week from people I know and friends who are email forwarders – you know what I’m talking about.  It’s usually something patriotic, political, humorous, or possibly a health tip.

For some reason this stuff is always written in some really gigantic goofy font, usually in color, SOMETIMES IN ALL CAPITALS.

Please stop.  I am not visually impaired, and if I was I still wouldn’t need it that ...