Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware
Spybot Search & Destroy destroying Tablet PC functionality?
by Jason Clarke Nov 6th 2006
James Kendrick over at JKOnTheRun is reporting that the latest updates from the popular Spybot Search & Destroy anti-spyware application are falsely detecting and removing files that are crucial to the correct functioning of Tablet PCs. The fix appears to require rolling back to a recent system restore point, which to me makes puts this problem in the serious category. Of course, you're immune if you don't have a Tablet PC, but think of the possibilities had this problem caused bigger problems for more mainstream versions of Windows. I suppose these days there's no real solution that will prevent a buggy update from slipping through for one of the many security based tools we now need to run to keep a Windows installation running in good shape. Heck, Windows Updates are often the worst offenders in terms of introducing problems when they're trying to fix something.
What's a user to do, short of unplugging from the net and never updating?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
