While I’m extremely disappointed to have to say this, Sunbelt Software has released another update that has caused problems with VIPRE.

At the moment, their chat and phone representatives are utterly swamped due to the problems. After getting through, I was told that a bad update was released last night and that it would be “fixed shortly”.

For now, it appears that they have turned off the update service in hopes of containing the problems.

If you have problems, restart your computer and it should help the situation. In about 2 hours, hit the “Update” button in the software and it should download an update (as long as they fix it by then).

Justin

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Many of you may see Java pop up and ask to be updated. Click the icon, run through the update procedure (make sure to uncheck the Bing toolbar) and let it do it’s thing.

It seems there was a serious flaw in the Java software that allowed things to be executed within the program. It was so serious that Java released an “out of band” update today for it. This means they thought it was bad enough to release an update outside their normal update time line. It’s a big deal for a lot of companies to do this.

For more information, click here.
Justin

You may not have noticed it this weekend, except those on the website around 8:30PM on Saturday, but we did some house cleaning.

With my Voodoo Chicken Magic L33t H4x0R skillz (ok, maybe not), I moved the site from a static page, to something a little more dynamic to allow updates to the site to happen a little easier. While I broke the blog in the process, it’s fixed – it was only “broke” for about 10 minutes.

So, with that said, you, Google, and the rest of the world, should be seeing Protocol16 just as you normally do. If you have problems with a file, please feel free to report it and we’ll take care of it rather quickly.
Justin

Microsoft is releasing an out of band update today to patch security holes in Internet Explorer. After the recent Google China incident, Microsoft discovered that sneaky code inside office documents could attack IE and cause problems.

This out of band update should be released around 10am PST “or as close to it as possible”, according to Microsoft.

While home users should get update alerts tomorrow morning, businesses will want to patch their systems as soon as possible, after testing the update, of course.
Justin