Joe Poniatowski

Jerry Pournelle, legendary technology columnist and fiction author, sent out a security advisory regarding the compromise of personal data on major online job boards.

How to find out what’s running on your PC, and why this is important.

SpyGuarder and Vista AntiVirus 2008 are two very nasty fake malware programs that try to extort money from you, and compromise the security of your system and data.

Anyone who’s used a personal computer for more than a week or two has undoubtedly noticed a gradual decrease in performance. There can be a number of causes for this, and a number of steps you can take to recover this lost performance. There are also a few preventative measures that can help […]

Adware and Spyware can slow your system down and compromise its security. Here is a discussion of some of the tools and utilities that can help you deal with them.

The benefits of a paid-for registry optimization tool.

This article was originally published by Triond on their web site ComputerSight. I thought it was time to reprint it here, so it appears below in its entirety.

Configuration Management (’CM’ hereafter) means a lot of different things to different people. Weighty tomes have been written describing the goals, policies, procedures, benefits, pitfalls, and a […]

Two cases in the news in the past few weeks, one dealing with the RIAA’s computer forensic investigators not having the correct licenses in several states, and the other with the 5th Amendment protections of passwords and encryption keys.