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Entries in Case Studies (52)

Adware Deathmatch III

So I’m locked in a death-struggle with evil Adware which is rendering my Spouse’s laptop virtually unusable. Time to do some research:

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Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 07:32PM by Registered CommenterLarry Cone in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Adware Deathmatch II

Yesterday I found myself engaged in a fight to the death with Spyware and Adware infecting The Reverend’s machine. It threw me right out of my PM tasks, and pushed me into a prolonged struggle with software infecting my machines. It almost got the better of me.

My Trend Micro virus checker/firewall didn’t touch this stuff – I needed better tools.

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Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 07:30PM by Registered CommenterLarry Cone in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Adware Deathmatch I

This Blog is entitled “A Day in the Life of a Project Manager”, but like many of you, what I do during the day sometimes has nothing to do with Project Management.

I’m reading e-mail yesterday morning, when The Reverend <<my Spouse>> lets out a yelp from the next room. Five browser windows just leaped up onto her Laptop screen, touting everything from Low Airfares to On-line Casinos. Over the next half hour, more junk comes up, and the machine repeatedly freezes. There is an Adware infection loose in the house.

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Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 07:29PM by Registered CommenterLarry Cone in , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Content and Automated Analysis

Its time to wrap up this series about AIIM, the Content and Document Management show that I attended last week. In my last entry I talked about XML, and its value in describing or Metatagging content.

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Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 03:17PM by Registered CommenterLarry Cone in , | CommentsPost a Comment

Content and XML

At the AIIM show at the Javits Center in NYC, I saw lots of software vendors with many offerings. Most of these vendors had the word “Enterprise” in the description of the software product.

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Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 03:13PM by Registered CommenterLarry Cone in , , | CommentsPost a Comment