Dinesh Mistry:

PC World has an interesting article on how to preserve your Laptop Battery Life and debunks some theories. It is a very interesting article.

Laptop batteries are like people–eventually and inevitably, they die. And like people, they don’t obey Moore’s Law–You can’t expect next year’s batteries to last twice as long as this year’s. Battery technology may improve a bit over time (after all, there’s plenty of financial incentive for better batteries), but, while interesting possibilities may pop up, don’t expect major battery breakthroughs in the near future.

Read the full article here

A reminder has been posted on the official Windows Team blog regarding support for Windows 2000, Vista RTM, and XP with Service Pack 2. The support for these three operating systems will end soon.

Vista RTM will be the first one out of those three, which will not receive support anymore starting April 13.

For the other two OSs, July 13 is the date of their support termination.

Windows Vista RTM users need to use Windows Update to install the latest service pack.

A fake Facebook password reset email seems to be doing the rounds in the last few days. I fixed two computers today that had been infected by this particular malware.

Instead of having a fake Facebook page to collect the victims passwords (phishing), the email is sent with a malware attachment. The malware is known as “Bredolab” which is a Trojan downloader. In the two computers I repaired today, Bredolab downloaded some rogue antivirus products. However, some sites are saying that it also downloads a password stealing trojan.

If you see it onsite, Malware Bytes seems to deal with the Trojan once you kill the main executable (at least the rogue antivirus variants). Be sure to tell your clients to change their passwords after the infection has been removed as well.