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1. Comment - Verizon sweetens FiOS deal with speed bump

   (Jun 20, 2008 - 9:06 AM)

   Regardless of what service/price Verizon offers, it’s still the same ol Verizon! A company who’s customer service remains THE WORST. A company with little or no integrity.
   
   My local POTS voice line gets crossed/ knocked out almost every two years, and every time, it’s the same thing: “We’ll get there in two or three days”, and when they do, they’ll call my cell @ 7:00am, and insist someone be home and wait, and not show up until 5:00pm.
   
   As to all of you knuckleheads who have no compassion for Verizon employees being downsized/ outsourced, shame on you! This has become an American epidemic, and every lost job, every outsourced job, every home foreclosure, further weakens our country and effects all of us. I can not believe your apathy.

2. Comment - Register your favorite digits now as a URL in the .NU domain

   (Jun 9, 2008 - 9:34 AM)

   With the amount of websites already out there, the need for more domain extensions are still growing exponentially. I’ve always thought that these three would be great:
   
   .inc
   .corp
   .llc

3. Comment - Trend Micro Tests Smartphone Antivirus

   (Jul 28, 2004 - 1:14 AM)

   Agreed. cell phones don't "need" that stuff, but never underestimate marketing.
   
   On cell phone viruses: Didn't anyone see the Terminator series? Is "Skynet" really coming soon?
   
   Sure, it’s a good chuckle, but out of the minds of imaginative people, the possibilities of real threats are sometimes predicted.
   
   The exact events of 9/11 were written about over a decade ago...

4. Comment - Norton Secures the Perimeter

   (Jul 13, 2004 - 8:23 PM)

   Agreed. Digging the progy out after a bad install is like pulling teeth; it really, really, needs a lot of work.
   
   Look, the only way to send them a messege is NOT to buy, or even use it! There are better choices, read my post on Trend Micro.

5. Comment - Norton Secures the Perimeter

   (Jul 11, 2004 - 1:18 PM)

   Once again a "big guy" company becomes complacent with its market share; focusing on its share holders and profits, and forgetting about what got them there. Case in point: the once valued Norton Utilities has been long considered a legacy product since Windows XP was released in 2001, and yet, they continue to release only superficial updates with little or no value.
   
   We’re a small system builder who has the unfortunate experience of servicing hundreds of Spyware / Adware / Malware / Hijack infected PC’s a year. The first line of defense is proactively protecting today’s Internet users from the various Trojans that cause far too much of the damage.
   
   Norton Antivirus does little or nothing, not only to protect from these, and all but ignores them during a full scan.
   
   "I’m sick and tired of seeing PC’s with fully functional, and updated NAV (2003 and newer) infected with Trojans and worms that would have been easily caught with another product such as that by Trend Micro."
   
   Having had more experience than I’d want to have, I can tell you after extensive testing; the only product that we now recommend is Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security. Take the same infected PC, and scan with Trend Micro, and you’ll discover (and remove) all of the infections NAV ignores. We’ve been using, recommending, and reselling Symantec products for years, both on the desktop, as well as the server level, but our primary responsibility is always to our clients.
   
   We can not in good faith recommend NAV anymore. In fact, we’ve sent many emails to Symantec regarding this that has been to date, ignored. If you want to use the best possible defense for desktop PC, then you’ll want Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security. Any other product would put you at an unacceptable risk.
   
   The only real drawback is that all of these security products feel the need to add their own version of a firewall. With the upcoming release of XP SP2, we’ll have a wait and see disposition as to whether they’re needed or not over the built in XP firewall or not. For now, we still use the XP firewall; disableing any 3rd party software.
   
   J. Farulla, MCP
   GRA Computers, Inc.
   West Paterson, NJ