Michael Horowitz's Blog Archive

How the Clampi Trojan infects Windows computers and a defense for each attack vector.

The way most people remove malicious software from an infected Windows machine can be improved upon.

Hard drives are fragile, so it's important that the packaging protect them in transit. I recently had a mixed experience with this buying hard drives from Amazon.com.

Is it worthwhile to get HP's on-site service plan? Here's a story from the trenches.

Along with private browsing, Firefox 3.5 introduced a "Forget this site" feature for cases when private browsing was not invoked up-front. I found the implementation incomplete.

For the third time in the last couple weeks Microsoft has a simple fix that disables software with a critical flaw.

German software company SRWare offers Iron, a customized version of Google's Chrome browser. Iron offers better privacy, portability and ad blocking.

If you are in or near New York City, the local computer user group, NYPC, is offering a free lecture "Why Internet Fraud is so Successful and How to Avoid It" on July 16th.

The simple registry update to disable the buggy Video ActiveX Control is not as simple as it first appears.

I researched the the latest Microsoft Video ActiveX Control bug in Windows and came away with a couple important questions that no one else has addressed. For a critical zero day bug, there shouldn't be any open questions. Bottom line, avoid Internet Explorer.

Part 2 of defensively installing a VoIP telephone adapter. Debating with Robert L. Mitchell about whether a VoIP box should be plugged into a broadband modem or into a router. I vote for the router.