We are starting to notice an uptick in the amount of spyware present on PCs.. it seems as though the spyware makers have lulled us to sleep and are ready for the next wave of attack. The timing is good, as the old version of Ad Aware does not update any more, Windows Defender does not pick up all spywares and the new version of Ad Aware (Ad Aware 2007) is not very good. Spybot 1.5 is the best defence against spyware these days; it scans for over 100,000 infections. Keep your PC safe!

Our organization has moved up to Microsoft CRM 4.0 and here is an early review:

• The software runs much quicker; no more going for coffee when clicking on a new section!
• CRM 4 runs very well in Outlook; previous versions were a bit buggy
• Option to export to Excel works well and is very useful
• CRM 4.0 has a much more attractive looking user interface than CRM 3.0

My early conclusion is that this upgrade is very worth it and is going to be great for our company. I recommend this software to manage your clients.

The Joomla User Group Toronto meeting held at En Vogue Computers headquarters went well; details of the meeting can be found here: http://toronto.joomla.ca.

En Vogue Computers is proud to announce that we are the host of the inaugural Toronto Joomla! User Group Meeting. The meeting will take place at our offices on Monday the 25th of February. We love Joomla! and can't wait to meet other Joomla! evangelists.

What is Yahoo thinking? Yahoo decided (for fun I guess) to change the way one sends mail through Rogers Internet Service with a non-Rogers account. You now have to go to mail.yahoo.com and add any non-Rogers addresses into your Control Panel, or Yahoo! will block all your mail you send out with this address! You will receive the following cryptic message:

There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. #5.5.0 smtp;553 From: address not verified; see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/alternate_email/index.html

The link leads you to a place, that if you dig hard enough, you may understand why your email is blocked. You are also trapped, as you cannot send through other outgoing mail servers with Rogers Home High Speed Internet.

Maybe they should change their name from Yahoo! to Duh!? It's one thing to make an annoying change like this; it's another to not tell inform your users about it! Shame, Yahoo; you have caused a ton of confusion. If you want to see how much, try typing the above error message into Google.

Blackberry has recently announced Blackberry Enterprise Server Small Business edition. The software is for 5 users and costs $1199; this is staggeringly cheaper than the $3599 they want for the full edition. At $1199, it seems pointless to have it hosted elsewhere as the cost will hit that amount within the first year!