Grisoft has forums for us to look at to see what is happening with the new Version 8. Some of you have wondered why I recommend waiting a bit. It's easy to see why if you read the forums, as I do on your behalf each day. Be patient and look back here in a week or two for my final recommendation.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3
XP SP3 is available starting today at Windows Update. It is NOT yet being downloaded through Automatic Updates - fortunately! :-) I went to the Windows Update web site and although they make it very difficult to say "Don't ask me to install these updates again", I managed to do so by starting the download and then NOT agreeing with the End User License Agreement (EULA). When I declined to agree, I got the old window that enabled me to check the box as shown below:
Since this is not being 'forced' on us through Automatic Updates - YET! - I wanted to see if I could block it, and as you can see I did just that. You can do the same or watch this site for further information. You can always block it even after it is downloaded as an Automatic Update.
Since this is not being 'forced' on us through Automatic Updates - YET! - I wanted to see if I could block it, and as you can see I did just that. You can do the same or watch this site for further information. You can always block it even after it is downloaded as an Automatic Update.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
AVG users
If you use AVG Free Edition Antivirus, as I do, you may have received a pop-up telling you that Version 8 is available now. Do NOT click on download and get into the situation where you have to buy a fee version.
Please read the press release linked to below.
Avg Version 8 also has a FREE version. For those of you who have gotten used to the older version 7 as I have, Version 8 is quite different, but still FREE!! In the next couple of weeks I will document here for all of you the steps you need to take to upgrade to the FREE Version 8. Please be patient and keep looking here for those instructions.
Please read the press release linked to below.
Avg Version 8 also has a FREE version. For those of you who have gotten used to the older version 7 as I have, Version 8 is quite different, but still FREE!! In the next couple of weeks I will document here for all of you the steps you need to take to upgrade to the FREE Version 8. Please be patient and keep looking here for those instructions.
Below is the warning screen you may receive. Just click on UPGRADE LATER.
Get more with Vista’s ‘secret’ features
For you Vista users out there, here is an article from Kim Komando's web site, http://komando.com. I found this on her web site today even though it has a February date.
Monday, May 5, 2008
A very unhappy birthday to spam, age 30
This article from the San Francisco Chronicle documents the history of spam and has some interesting tidbits about the history of the internet as well.
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