Microsoft support for Windows XP expired a month ago, and yet hundreds of millions of users around the world are still using it. Personally, I think that is a bad idea, but it’s a free world and people are entitled […]
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Thousands of Citrix customers and partners took over the Anaheim Convention Center this week for Citrix Synergy 2014. The annual event is a platform for Citrix to make big announcements and reveal new products and features, such as those it
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What’s in the Office 365 Personal plan? Microsoft announced at the beginning of March a new Office 365 plan aimed at individuals, and now the Office 365 Personal plan is available for would-be subscribers. There’s nothing wrong with Office 365
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Definition: In network security, a vulnerability refers to any flaw or weakness in the network defense that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to, damage or otherwise affect the network.
Definition: A virus is malicious code that replicates itself. New viruses are discovered daily. Some exist simply to replicate themselves. Others can do serious damage such as erasing files or even rendering the computer itself inoperable.
Definition: VBScript is an active scripting language created by Microsoft to compete with Netscape’s JavaScript. VBScript is based on Microsoft’s popular programming language Visual Basic. VBScript is an active scripting language used within HTML to execute small programs to generate
Definition: UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a part of the TCP/IP suite of protocols used for communications on the Internet. It is similar to TCP except that it offers very little error-checking and does not establish a connection with a
Definition: A worm is similar to a virus. They replicate themselves like viruses, but do not alter files like viruses do. The main difference is that worms reside in memory and usually remain unnoticed until the rate of replication reduces
Definition: A Trojan horse is called such as a reference to the story of the Trojan horse from Greek legend. It is a malicious program disguised as a normal application. Trojan horse programs do not replicate themselves like a virus,
Definition: TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) is a suite of protocols which make up the basic framework for communication on the Internet. The first part, TCP, helps to control how the larger data is broken down into smaller
