security
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Windows
Windows 10 Security concerns already
The story broke before the weekendย as reported among others by the Hacker News about Windows 10 Preview having a keylogger to spy on your activities. ย It seems that Microsoft may be taking its technical preview to the next level of…
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Security
Install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET for better security
In this day and age of high profile exploits in the news involving businesses that we all know and use, digital security is more on the minds of everyone now than ever before. ย While there isn’t anything we as consumers…
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Security
The safer way to lock your Windows computer
How many times have all of us walked away from our workstations thinking that the CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then ENTER keystrokes we entered successfully locked our workstations only to come back and find that we were too fast for Windows and…
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Linux
Install all updates besides select few Ubuntu Server
Recently, in working on updating an Ubuntu server for a client that was running a customized version of Nginx compiled with Google Pagespeed and other mods, we wanted to install all the updates besides any that touched Nginx as we…
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Mobile
Can’t copy and paste files from Samsung Galaxy S4 to computer
I ran across a pesky issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4 the other day where I wanted to copy a few pictures and a video from my phone’s internal memory over to my computer. ย For the most part in times…
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Cloud
Has cloud computing matured?
I was asked the question just the other day about cloud computing and what my thoughts were on the whole concept. ย It made me realize the questions revolving around cloud computing for businesses are still there. ย Many businesses are still…
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Web
How to properly setup nginx local authentication
If you have a website running on nginx and you want to make sure the content is not viewable by anyone that isn’t authenticated, the easiest way to set this up is to setup local authentication. ย Let us take a…
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ActiveDirectory
How to manage fine grained password policy with powergui
We here at Computer-howto.com are big fans of the free utility Powergui. Powergui offers a wide range of free powerpacks which offer tremendous control for admins over their environments. One of the huge strengths that Powergui provides is the obvious…
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Malware
Windows 7 Malware Cleanup with Roaming Profiles
We have covered this situation before with malware and profiles in a different post. ย However, we thought it good to cover this topic again since in a roaming profile environment, this issue is likely to pop up again and and…
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Troubleshooting
How to Fix the publisher could not be verified warning Windows 7
If you have ever run into this error message, it is certainly annoying, especially if you have installed software that you DO trust and KNOW where it came from and receive this warning. ย The error is basically saying the software…
