To all the SysAdmins out there, Happy Systems Administrator’s Day. Today, July 31, 2009 marks the day when we should all bow down and thank our SysAdmins for keeping systems running. Brownies are always appreciated.

The "selling" of fake anti-virus programs is more of a confidence trick than an attack on your machine. After all, they’re asking you to pay them for ineffective software to counter a threat that doesn’t exist.

The vulnerability in ActiveX that created the need for those emergency patches from Microsoft are all the result of a silly little ampersand ("&").

Companies have been slow to upgrade from Exchange 2007, so Microsoft’s decision not to support it on Windows Server 2008 R2 may cause problems.

Vista was such a bust there are millions of people eager to upgrade to something better. Or so says Sean Maloney of Intel.

A ten-year deal between Microsoft and Yahoo means Bing will be the search engine on Yahoo’s sites while Yahoo will sell premium search ads for both companies.

It only took a week, maybe less, for the activation/validation process on Windows 7 Ultimate RTM to be cracked. First you change your system BIOS to make it think it’s an OEM machine, then…

The emergency patches issued yesterday address flaws in the Active Template Library (ATL), affecting both Internet Explorer and Visual Studio. The patch, MS09-034, is rated "critical" by Microsoft.

In this article, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz explores your options if you want to migrate off of the now-obsolete Palm Desktop to Outlook, the iPhone, the Pre, or some cloud service like Google.

Read this OutlookPower article.

If you have Adobe Flash Player, version 9 or 10, on your computer you’re open to a zero-day vulnerability. The patch is expected Thursday.