Newsletter Archives

• Extra security for all your devices

  Posted on February 28, 2022 at 02:42 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  These days, I don’t have just traditional PCs that I must protect — I have iPads, iPhones, Kindles, Chromebooks, and others. And these don’t run Microsoft operating systems.

  Not to pick on her, but my sister used to randomly surf with her Windows PC and, after searching, would end up with some sort of infection or malicious browser plugin. But when she did the same on her iPad or iPhone, I was spared the chore of cleaning up those devices — they were less targeted and less likely to end up compromised.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.09.0 (2022-02-28).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, On Security AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Microsoft Defender, Patch Lady Posts, phishing, security

• The case of the missing Win10 antivirus scan results

  Posted on October 25, 2021 at 02:44 CDT by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  

  By Fred Langa

  Windows 10’s dialogs are sometimes laid out in funky ways and can lack headings and other visual cues to help you quickly locate what you’re looking for.

  That, coupled with Windows’ inconsistent and variable naming and labeling conventions, can be an annoyance to most of us — but can actually enrage some users, as you’ll see in today’s first item!

  Plus: An easy solution to a conflict between MS Office and LibreOffice. And: Finding a safe substitute for a laptop AC adapter.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.41.0 (2021-10-25).

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• Patch Lady – Defender not having a good week

  Posted on August 13, 2020 at 22:19 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  So the other day we had folks reporting issues with Defender and Western Digital drivers.

  Today Citrix Broker service was flagged as malicious and well.. a whole bunch of work from home remote workers weren’t working anymore.

  Bottomline the best antivirus is silent and does it’s job.  And when it doesn’t…. it often is very painful.  It’s a tight tap dance around our operating systems to determine what is malicious and what is not. And when the attackers try EXTREMELY hard to LOOK like a normal application doing it’s job.  Bottom line we depend so much on antivirus and curse at them when they don’t work.

  Windows Security Microsoft Defender, Patch Lady Posts

• Windows Defender becomes “Microsoft Defender”

  Posted on July 19, 2019 at 12:04 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Effective with Win10 version 20H1 (gawd, I hope they don’t call it version 2003), Windows Defender will get the new name “Microsoft Defender.”

  I first read about that in a Tero Alhonen tweet, but Martin Brinkmann has a thorough explanation in this ghacks.net post.

  One question has not been answered yet: why is Microsoft making the change? A likely explanation, and our colleagues over at Deskmodder seem to agree, is that Microsoft wants to use the Microsoft name for services and tools that are available on multiple platforms, and the Windows name if a service or tool is only available on Windows.

  Windows 10 Microsoft Defender, Windows Defender