Symptom: Computer “locked up”, SPOOLSV.EXE using 100% CPU. Read more

I’ve been building serveral small test servers and workstations, but I ran into a Windows Update error 80072EE2 putting a test server on my production network. Read more

Ever have one of those days?  Among all the random things the corporate beast threw at me, I encountered a wonderful WMI error generated by a GPO refresh. Read more

After a few failed starts getting Java to update via WSUS Package Publisher, I’ve taken one more try.  Here are the steps I used to successfully deploy Java 6 update 115.  The process should work for any Java version. Read more

Tech support phone scams are a few years old, but still fairly common. If someone calls you claiming to be from Microsoft (or some other tech company) wanting to connect to your computer to fix something, hang up. Read more

In case you haven’t heard, many Drupal hosting providers and users dropped the ball on getting their systems patched.  Tripwire reports automated scans started compromising sites just hours after the most recent patch announcement.  The lesson here: Pay attention to your installed products, especially the internet exposed ones.  Attackers started hitting our systems for Shellshock a few hours after I learned of it, and luckily I read the article just after it was posted.  You need to do you base level security as always, but patching is a never ending cycle.  You need to stay on top of it. Read more

Microsoft releases an advisory and fix-it tool to disable SSL3 in Internet Explorer, recommends SSL 3 is disabled on all systems.  It appears they are also disabling SSL3 on all their hosted internet services.  I recommend we all do likewise. Read more

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FFTF’s Net neutrality campaign against big media appears to be paying off – according to them.  As a collective group, we “The Internet” have fought off corporate mongers before.  Can we do it again and permanently institute fair bandwidth allocation for all?  Can we prevent big media from buying their way into first place across the internet, forcing everyone else into the background? Read more

After a long hiatus, I’m finally going to post a blog entry!  Yeah me! Read more