Posts by Dan Mansfield

LA explosion knocks LogMeIn's British customers offline

Fallback

Rob Lee - we use LMI Central and have hundreds of clients on it but as soon as we couldn't use it we just started using Team Viewer during the downtime. Any customer with a problem just installs the quick support client and away you go.

IT Support companies should have backup too in case of supplier failure.

'Indestructible' rootkit enslaves 4.5m PCs in 3 months

Physical

Agree, I believe that the only way to protect the boot sector would be to have on an EEPROM which has a physical switch (like a usb flash drive that has a read only switch). Bastards can't infect it then.

Boffins showcase do-it-yourself flying spy drone

Old hat

https://www.mikrocontroller.com/

Just received my Oktocopter kit yesterday for some serious neighbourhood spying....

Outlook grim as Cloudmark update crashes email clients

M$ helped for free!

After struggling with this problem a quick call to MSFT tech support resulted in them dialling in to fix the problem for free! They must have been bored. Did the cloudmark update for us and all. Nice.