WyzGuys Tech Talk

I recently read an article on Tech Republic that described how the cybersecurity firm Norse Corporation is using a network of 80 million honeypots to track malicious activity on the web.  A honeypot is a special computer or server that has been placed on the Internet to attract attackers, like Winnie-the-Pooh to honey.  80 million honeypots are going to track a lot of data, over 130 terabytes per day.  This information is displayed on a Continue Reading →

Finally some good news, this time from Tech Republic.  Recently an independent security lab, AV-Test, put seventeen popular anti-malware applications through their paces, specifically looking for how well the applications could detect and remove malware on systems that were already infected.  Anti-malware applications also prevent malware from installing through signature based and behavioral detection, but this test focused on whether the apps would work on a computer where malware had already been installed. 

The testers used 30 malware ...

Stumbled across an article on Tech Dirt that made a great visual statement about how technology has made us “less social.”  Or has it?  Looks like the only thing that has changed in 100 years is the medium.  Anyway, take a look at these photos.  Looks like we have been anti-social long before the smartphone “killed conversation.”

I just read a couple of articles about wireless networking that ought to be concerning to you – if you are one of the 75% who think unsecured public Wi-Fi systems are safe to use for any purpose.  Because, if you think so, you are wrong!

In a survey that was ...

Hey, it happens.  Sophos has a great article giving the step by step you need to recover from this without reinstalling everything from scratch.  Everything below is from Sophos.  Thanks, guys.

Microsoft has published a workaround that will get you up and running again, but it involves a fair amount of fiddling.
You need to:

1. Boot from installation media or go into Recovery Mode.
2. Delete the crash-triggering file %WINDOWS%system32fntcache.dat.
3. Reboot normally, which should now succeed.
4. Save the registry key ...