Thursday, March 31, 2011

MVPS Hosts File Download Available

The March update to the MVPS HOSTS file is available now.

This is a good time to run an up-to-date Spybot and then download and install the new HOSTS file. You can find it here:


This should be an integral and very important part of your security baseline.

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Browser Wars?

Much is being made these days of "The Browser Wars". I think that's funny because I find some of my customers if asked "what browser do you use?" would probably reply "what is a browser?".

Internet Explorer is the  browser that most everyone knows, mostly because it comes installed on every Windows machine. I switched to Firefox years ago because of all of the security issues with Internet Explorer. Firefox is still my browser of choice. I have tried the others, but see no reason to change. I see one reason NOT to change to Chrome, and that is their refusal to include something as simple as a left sidebar for listing all of your Favorites or Bookmarks. Why? I haven't a clue. I see no good reason to switch to Opera or Safari.

All browsers are free, and that is good.

Maximum PC recently published their review of these 5 browsers, with Firefox coming out as the winner. If you are at all interested, it is a good article, and can be found here: Browser Battle 2011: Who Is the New King of the Web?

FYI, I have installed Firefox 4 on my 2 Windows XP machines. The install was fast and simple, and the differences are barely noticeable. You can read about these in the above-referenced Maximum PC article.