January 2008 - Posts

IT Security Through Sibling Rivalry
Some of you who know me know I have four kids—all boys. Now when you have four brothers growing up together under the same roof there is a lot of competition. In some families this competition would be with sports or academic achievement. In my house...
New Tool: Delete files in use and Windows protected files
I thought I would share a tool I had developed a while back as part of my Windows lockdown procedure. Deleting files that are in use and particularly WFP-protected files can be a pain and the methods vary with each version of Windows. X-Out is a simple...
Making sense of Microsoft malware protection
In case you haven’t noticed, in the last few years Microsoft has released a number of different client protection tools. First it was Windows Defender, then OneCare, and now we are seeing a big push on the Forefront product line. In fact, there are a...
Recanting my compaint of Vista’s Start Menu
In my last post I vented out some Vista complaints I had. One of those was how Microsoft changes the Start Menu with every version of Windows. In fact, after writing that I did a personal protest and changed the properties of the Start Menu to use the...