Today, all of a sudden, every Windows 7 machine in our office fails Windows Update with the 80246002 error. Two machines were brand new installations. As a temporary fix, I changed the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google’s DNS Servers) and it now works. We were using OpenDNS. I’m […]
Jim
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Malwarebytes has been one of my favorite tools for years. It does a great job at removing junk and unwanted programs that Anti-virus vendors either ignore or can’t detect. When cleaning machines in our shop, we use the Free version which does not offer real-time protection. The Premium version offers […]
Seems like a definition update for Microsoft Security Essentials has broken it on Windows XP. Found this error on our XP test machine this morning. Microsoft has announced that they will provide definition updates for MSE on Windows XP until July of 2015, so what is going on here? Tried […]
I was content simply using the Verizon provided Actiontec Router at the head of my home network until I logged into my Verizon account and saw this: This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the Verizon e-mail account I’m forced to create when I got Verizon FiOS is […]
If you think you don’t have to worry about the NSA spying on you because you have nothing to hide, watch this video:
