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Windows Defender Leaves Beta

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Windows Defender, Microsoft’s anti-spyware utility, has been updated, left beta and had it’s production release. It remains free. The Windows Defender beta software running on my PC notified me of the updated version. When I clicked on the link to download it just brought me to Microsoft’s Windows Defender web page. When clicking on the download link there I first had to install the “Windows Genuine Advantage” plug-in and validate my copy of Windows. Then I was able to download 4.9MB installer. The install was straight-forward but the Windows Defender [...] Read the rest »

This Weeks Minor Website Updates

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In addition to the blog posting that appear on the home page, the following updates were made to the site this past week. The Backup Project page was updated with the shortlist of software I’ll be evaluating. Added the following Thunderbird tip to the Cross Platform Apps page in the software zone: The Thunderbird spam filter must be trained after it’s enabled. This includes identifying both Spam and non-Spam messages. Select the message(s), right click and select Mark->As Junk/As Not Junk The Search page has a couple minor changes. The [...] Read the rest »

XDrive – Not Ready For Backup on Mac or Win

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I tried to give XDrive a spin on both Windows and OS X, concentrating on it’s backup abilities. But all I did was crash. On the Windows side the most I was able to back up before getting an error was 70MB. Each time I received a 2151 error. The error is discussed in this forum thread. Their recommended work around is to try the backup off hours, which for XDrive is during the day. Some responses said this didn’t work. I tried several backups over several nights and always [...] Read the rest »