As some of you may have read in the press there is currently a major security vulnerability in the Windows Help system that is currently being exploited by hackers to take control of PCs worldwide. Once they have control obviously they use the PCs for all kinds of nastiness. This vulnerability exists whether or not you use any of the Microsoft help functions which use the HPC protocol.
April 16, 2010 - 11:40 am
Posted in Kraya, Security, hardware | 3 comments
As I am sure everyone is aware volcanic ash from the volcano in Iceland is causing major air travel disruption at this time as volcanic ash and planes do not mix. Similarly, volcanic ash and computers do not mix. We are seeing fine particulates falling to ground level just now and these combined with the [...]
March 25, 2010 - 11:46 am
Posted in Kraya, Security | 1 comment
If some spam does hit your in box please please put it into the “Junk Email” folder (and not a Junk or spam folder) and THEN delete it. This helps the Spam filters learn from your actions. More instructions and guidance below:
Outlook and Webmail users please use the Kerio Outlook connector Tool bar:
Simply highlight the [...]
All Windows 7, Vista and XP users who currently use internet explorer will be offered a choice as part of the deal Microsoft reached with European Commission.
A pop-up window will prompt people to choose and install one of 12 different browsers or let them stick with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Kraya recommends users choose anything but Internet explorer. Users are able to select any browser of their own choosing however we would strongly recommend users pick from our top picks:
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera
Safari
February 23, 2010 - 8:27 pm
Posted in Linux, Windows, hardware | No comments
I starting having issues with the back-light of the LCD display on my ACER Travelmate 6592, it would hiss and flicker before dieing completely.
December 16, 2009 - 3:01 pm
Posted in Kraya, Rants | 2 comments
We are receiving reports of Intermittent Internet Faults from our clients in the Edinburgh area.
There Internet simply goes down for anything between 1 and 30 minutes.
As we suspected this morning this has now been confirmed as a BT Fault affecting all Customers on the BT Wholesale ADSL network.
December 16, 2009 - 1:22 am
Posted in Rants, Security | No comments
One of our Clients had their ADSL Cut off this week as they had exceeded the usage policy. Why? Adobe Update manager on one Windows XP PC had decided to download over 70GB of data over the course of a 7 day period. It would appear that it was getting itself in a loop and just kept trying to update continuously, 70GB worth of continuously.
December 15, 2009 - 4:31 pm
Posted in Journeys | No comments
It has been a while since I posted to my blog – sorry about that. There have been a number of reasons: Firstly, things have been very busy here at krayatec and more importantly, Angela and I got married. Thanks to all who came to our wedding and I do hope you all had a good time. We certainly enjoyed ourselves and I’m glad to report that after his wee trip to hospital my grandfather is well; one operation over and waiting on his second.
