Fractured Logic - Up and Running!

So just a little over 5 days ago; I said that I’d take a in-depth look through a couple trial runs of Microsoft Security Essentials; focusing on areas of: Virus Detection, Functionality, Performance and Features; from both the views of an end user and a power user. So strap yourselves in, this post’s going to be a long one.

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I've had a spare 2.5" hard drive laying around for a while and I've been wondering what to do with it. It's a 200GB Sata 5200rpm drive; Big enough to be useful, but what for?

Then someone gave me the Idea of putting it into a USB Caddy so I can carry it around with me. Now I already have one of these; a WD 500GB Passport, but you can't ever have too much space!

So I went ahead and ordered on NexStar CX, made b… Continue

Facebook has had a large amount of security problems since it’s birth. Having such a large amount of subscribers and such lacking security measures, it’s been a big target for spammers/spambots, scammers and spam and/or malware attacks.

Recently, there has been a hit of Spam email claiming to be from the facebook team to users of Facebook that contains a malicious trojan called “Bredolab” that will connect to additional servers that install more malware.

Part of the trojan’s payload is to conn… Continue

Rogue Security Programs have always been a problem. I've gotten a couple of these myself. Ever heard of AntiVirus 2009? Yeah. For the majority of these programs, It involves you downloading and running a program (Most commonly a program that has been mislabeled for you to run it, say a program you would want to install); And the rogue programs installing themselves.

These Programs; By definition are a Trojan Horse. "A Program advertised as preforming one activity but actually does something els… Continue

With the ever approaching release of Windows 7, and the continually rising support for Mac and Linux, I thought I might give everyone my 5 tips based on personal experiences before Upgrading or Moving Operating System:

1) Back up data.

This is probably the most important part of moving or upgrading. Don’t think “I’m only upgrading, My files will be fine!”. I’ve thought this in the past and files can be corrupted or even lost. I back up my files in two ways; A Hard Drive Image of my working sys… Continue