Quick Tips – Keeping your software secure on windows

by: WanderingTechy March 7, 2010

Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software.  This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed. This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it.  It is not a virus scanner or security product but [...]

Quick Tips – Killing Zombie Processes

by: WanderingTechy March 6, 2010

This will be a regular feature (I hope). Quick tips are brief descriptions of a common problem and a solution. The first is how to kill zombie processes. A zombie process is a child process that has died without the parent’s knowledge or acknowledgement. To kill it send a signal SIGCHLD to the parent process. [...]