A FEW THINGS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE

If you woke up this morning and (provided you leave your computer "ON" 24/7) then you may have found it had rebooted overnight. Microsoft is pushing out Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to all legitimate Windows 7 users this week.

Consumer reports writes that if you are currently happy with your Windows 7 PC - stay there, and if you want a new PC, buy one with Windows 7 on it - NOT Windows 8. They also said that finding a Windows 7 PC in a store would be very hard and that your best bet would be to try online or have your local PC store build one for you. [this news article came via Computerworld.com - Thank You]

Rumors are popping up that Windows 9 will be released one year after this November.

MBAR, a new beta utility from Malwarebytes I wrote about last year is turning out to work very well in removing hard-to-remove malware.

A nasty type of Virus/Trojan is spreading around the internet. This one takes over your computer by spying on you through your web cam and recording what it sees [hint: if you're web cam light is ON or Blinking, this could indicate you've been hacked]. They can pop open your DVD drive, change your wallpaper to an evil looking Linda Blair, and even open notepad in combination with text-to-speech so the voice can read the repetitive lines over and over ("I have taken control of your computer and you can do nothing to stop me" type of stuff) just to creep you out.

More later...

'Nuff Said,
Brian