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Internet Explorer use falling further still

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Tom Raftery

on 21/1/2005

in Malware, Open Source, Spyware, Technology and Windows

. 0 Comments

I note that eWeek are reporting that usage of Microsoft’s internet Explorer has fallen another 1.5% to 90.3%.

Of course, what is amazing, to me, is that over 90% of people are still using internet Explorer!

Still, I shouldn’t complain, a lot of my business these days is coming from people whose PC’s have been decimated by Viruses/worms/spyware/etc. because they are using Internet Explorer!

Security center could not change your automatic updates settings

Published

Tom Raftery

on 6/10/2004

in Malware, Spyware, Technology and Windows

. 22 Comments

I was working on a friends PC the other day. It had Windows XP Home on it and several viruses! After cleaning out the viruses, I updated the PC to XP SP 2 to get the security advantages that the service pack confers.

However, on re-starting the PC after the install, the Security Centre gave a warning that Automatic Updates were not turned on. On attempting to turn it on from the Security Centre, I got the error message “The security center could not change your automatic updates settings”.

I tried changing the Automatic Update settings through the Control Panel but according to the Control Panel, the Updates were turned on! However, every time I re-started or logged in again, I got the warning “Your computer may be at risk”.

Resolution:

I did a Google search on this error and found a resolution on Google Groups - after registering the dlls in this thread, I closed and re-opened the Security Centre and the Automatic Updates showed as being on.