Jeremy Hellstrom

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News Editor at PC Perspective

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Leave That inetpub Folder Alone, No Matter What Social Media

1 week ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

It’s From A Somewhat Recent Security Patch, It’s Not A Free U2 Album!The internet is abuzz with various theories about how those dastardly evildoers at Microsoft are plotting to take over your life via an empty folder called inetpub they secretly installed on your C: drive. Ignore them, do not delete the folder. It was created by KB5055523 to resolve an vulnerability with Internet Information Services, the empty folder will indeed be created even if you do not have IIS installed.
Is It Time To Change Up Your Web Browser And Maybe Your Search Engine?

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

Old Habits Die Hard, But Things Have ChangedWhen most people thing of web browsers, Chrome, Firefox and occasionally Edge are immediately mentioned. Chrome is fully controlled by a company that seems to have dropped a word from their old motto of “Don’t Be Evil”, Firefox is prevaricating about what the word ‘sell’ means when it comes to your private data and usage statistics, and the only thing you can say about Edge is that it’s not Internet Explorer.
Metal Eden Is Apparently A Parkour Boomer Shooter With A Free Demo

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

It Also Has A Speedrunning Competition Where You Can Win Real MoneyBoomer Shooters are quite popular among a lot of people, though not many are actually Boomers. I suppose GenX Shooters just doesn’t have the same cadence nor the double entendre. If you already have the full contents of the Humble Boomer Shooter Bundle linked to below, you could try out a brand new, not quite ready for prime time game that goes by the name of Metal Eden.
MIME The Attachments You Open In WhatsApp For Windows

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

The Meta Behind The WhatsApp Doc-tored AttachmentsIf you have fallen under the Zuck’s influence and use WhatsApp for Windows you might want to stop, or at least stop opening attachments until you are positive you’ve updated to at least version 2.2450.6. There is a rather nasty bug in previous versions which allows code execution to be triggered when you open a doctored attachment that was sent to you.
AMD Powered AI In The 6 Inch ACEMAGIC F3A Mini PC

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

80 TOPS In A Tiny PackageThe capabilities of tiny computers have come a long way from the original Celeron 847 powered NUC, as the ACEMAGIC F3A Mini PC proves.
A New Month, A New AIDA64 With More Dark Mode Choices And More Blackwell Support

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

A Quick Update Or A New Reason To Try AIDA64 OutWe’ve said it before and will probably say it again, AIDA64 is a very handy tool for gamers, overclockers and enthusiasts in general. It’s a great diagnostic tool, with a stability test you can use to strain all, or just parts of your system components. It’s a way to check if your overclock is stable or if your cooling system is sufficient to keep you components stable at heavy load with the click of a single button.
Beware The USB-C Splitter Unless You Like To Live Dangerously

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

She Cannae Take Much More Of ThisUSB-C is wonderful, not just because you no longer need to rotate the plug at least three times to get it in, it allows you to power your laptop from your monitor, and offers external transfer speeds that far exceed what some of us recall our internal connections offering not so long ago. However it does come with some risks, of which you should pay attention to, beyond picking up excessively cheap cables to charge your very expensive equipment with.
One Of The Four Flavours Of Lian Li Hydroshift LCD 360

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

Do You Want That With RGB, No RGB or Hold The Fans Completely? Lian Li came up with an interesting twist to their Lian Li Hydroshift LCD AIO 360 series of AiO CPU coolers. You can get the full fat model with modular TL fans and a side infinity mirror, or opt for ARGB fans, normal fans or even grab a model without any fans at all.
Gmail's New End-to-End Encryption Swaps X.509 Certificates For KACL

2 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

I Can’t Believe It’s Not E2EEThere is a bit of controversy over the new end-to-end encryption feature that Gmail is offering to business customers. The traditional definition that security experts use requires that only the “sender and the recipient have the means necessary to encrypt and decrypt” a message.
Reflections On A Three Hour Tour Of Doom: The Dark Ages

3 weeks ago | pcper.com | Jeremy Hellstrom

Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Demonic Robots? DOOM: The Dark Ages will be a bit different from the past games, but apparently not too different. Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN had a chance to play with a development version and ended up in some dragonback dog-fighting, and a fifty-storey fistfight in a gargantuan mech. This certainly sounds interesting, as you get to stomp through cities in the mech, crushing everything in your wake and apparently the dragon has a pedal which turns it into a reptilian fighter jet.