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At 4:44 last night my wife Shannon gave birth to my son Nicholas. He was 21 inches long and weighed in at 8lb’s, 5 oz. I will be out of the office until tomorrow afternoon, but if you have an urgent situation, please call. Server’s run 24 hours a day, every day, so I provide tech suport 24 hours a day.

Web Design quotes are still being given, but no web design work is being done for the next two days.

Today’s the day!

I’m writing this from the hospital, where the wife is in the beginning stages of labor. I don’t usually ever close the office for anything and the office techniclly isn’t closed. If you need emergency support, please feel free to call. However if it isn’t urgent please hold calls until the day after tomorrow.

Not only did Microsoft’s new security software for their new operating system - “Vista” score last in all categories (only catching 91% of todays well know viruses and only noticing 79% of intrusion attempts), in the latest round of test, but it also “quarantines” all E-mails and Contacts in it’s own Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail software. By mistaking all e-mails and contacts in the address book as viruses, it isolates them making them not accessible by the computer.

Needless to say this has users on Vista irked. “This is the most unacceptable act Microsoft has ever committed,” groused one user on a forum. “I run a small business and I am screwed. I have no way to respond to e-mails because I made the mistake of trusting Microsoft… and all of my e-mails and contacts are gone.”

Microsoft finally confirmed the problem via e-mail Friday, and said it will update the Windows Live OneCare engine to fix the problem as part of its monthly patch release cycle.(Editors note - They didn’t say this month).

No press release, nothing on their web site no e-mail to Vista users (I guess there’s no point because they can’t use their e-mail), just an e-mail to the security researchers.

The fact that this hasn’t been reported in the IT press or the regular press demonstrates just how much influence their advertising dollars have.

Microsoft also offered the following step-by-step fix to recover lost e-mail in the meantime:

– Close Outlook or Outlook Express

– Click change OneCare settings in the main OneCare user interface

– Click on the viruses and spyware tab

– Click on the quarantine button and then select the pst or dbx file and then click on restore.

To ensure that the problem does not continue until the next update, Microsoft said users should also do the following:

– Click change OneCare setting in the main user interface

– Click viruses and spyware tab

– Click on the exclusions button

– Click on the add folder button

– Navigate to the specific folder that contains the.dbx or.pst file to be excluded.

– Click OK.

Also noteable from the tests performed by AV-Comparatives was that the top names in the computer security business, McAffee and Nortons anti-virus scored poorly too (not in the top three in any category, and more costly than all.

Hmmmm, Here’s cool trick to impress the Geezers with down at the local Pub!