Increasingly, we’re hearing from Louisville clients that they, too, are receiving CNN Alert spam e-mail messages. The e-mail messages themselves appear to be news alerts sent by CNN, but they are not. The attack is making headlines worldwide. In many cases, the e-mail messages carry a subject line that reads CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert. [...]

While disabling Automatic Updates isn’t a step I recommend, many clients ask how they can turn off this feature in Windows. In Windows XP: 1. Click Start.2. Select Control Panel.3. Double-click Automatic Updates. If the option doesn’t appear, ensure you’re in Classic View (select Switch To Classic View within the menu that should appear toward [...]