Virus found – explorer.exe crashes when loading cmd or regedit – antivirus won’t update

We’ve had a spate of customer’s machines get infected with this over the last week. Had us scratching our heads for a few hours … thought it was conficker or some variant but it seems not. Looks like it was actually Trojan:Win32/Daonol.B
Symptoms
Causes some or all of the symptoms below :-
1. Antivirus software won’t update from [...]

Google’s 10th Birthday

At this rate I might as well rename this the Google Blog! But this is quite cool/interesting – http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

Chrome task manager

At the risk of seeming obsessed with Chrome (I’m not really!), here’s one of the best features of Google’s new browser … each tab runs in a separate process and you can look at memory/cpu usage & end non-responsive processes in the browser task manager – much like you would with applications under windows.
Hit Ctrl-Escape [...]

Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts

As with all browsers there are some keyboard shortcuts in Chrome which can help make us a bit more efficient. I don’t remember that many shortcuts, so better to pick a few really useful ones than try and remember them all! This isn’t an exhaustive list – just a few that I use all the [...]

Performance boost with Google Chrome?

Here’s an interesting article from Hamid Shojaee, founder of Axosoft. At work we use their OnTime software extensively to track Bugs/Defects/Feature Requests/Incidents – and even as a simple project management tool.
Their web client is probably the best web client I’ve ever used – the experience is scarily like using a native windows app. If you [...]

Chrome mania

A lot has been written this week about Google’s recent foray into the browser market. Been using Chrome for a week or so now and have to admit that I like it a lot. I’ve always been an IE user and over the last couple of years I’ve tried Firefox, Safari, Opera – I tried [...]

Data center in a box – add power & network and away we go!

Living life in the SME sector we’re more used to having to deal with this :-
 
 
Than this :-
 
 
Microsoft are supposedly adding servers at a rate of 10,000 per month. One way they’re doing this is with “container data centers” – basically prefab data centres in a trailer! It seems these things come ready [...]

Things you didn’t know you could do with Google

Like many people Google is my browser home page – it’s where I start almost every Internet search / browse from.
I might be a bit slow of the mark here – it’s possibly common knowledge – but here are a few useful things you can do with the Google search tool.
Calculator
To do some basic arithmetic [...]

My Google Reader subscription list /panel / sidebar has disappeared!

Been using Google Reader for the last few months as my main RSS reader/aggregator – I was initially reluctant to go with a web based reader but have definitely gotten used to it with time. Having access from any machine at home, work, or when travelling is great.
This morning I lost the sidebar / panel [...]