If you have upgraded your iPhone to iOS 10, the chances are you will have noticed the ‘Home’ button does not work the way it used to. With earlier versions of iOS and phones that have a finger print sensor, resting your finger on the home button would unlock the screen. However, iOS 10 changes […]

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People using FortiClient security software on the their Mac computers should think twice about upgrading to the latest macOS Sierra software. FortiClient is a popular free utility that creates a VPN connection to office networks for mobile workers. In our tests, after the macOS Sierra upgrade has finished, the user is told the new operating […]

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Sometimes emails from friends or colleagues ends up your spam folder. Depending on your email provider, the easiest way to prevent this could be to ‘whitelist’ the person that is sending the emails. Some mail systems allow you to whitelist email addresses, others work by allowing you to whitelist the server name or server address […]

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Connecting a Mac running OS X Snow Leopard to a server running Microsoft Exchange  2007 is not quite as simple as it should be. We use Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, which comes with Exchange 2007. In our experience, the IMAP and SMTP protocols worked fine with any mail client we could find. But making […]

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Following our release of the popular Hping2 software for Linux based hand-held devices, The Hypervisor Lab team has developed a plugin for the open-source WordPress content management software to make it easy for users to login and logout of WordPress powered websites. Although WordPress comes with a similar feature, called the “Meta” widget, the built […]

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Hping is open-source network testing software, and some time ago one our software gurus compiled a version of Hping to run on the Sharp Zaurus, which is a fairly ancient Linux based mobile device. Although the Zaurus may be long in the tooth, the software should also work on other Linux based devices that use the StrongArm […]

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Over the last few years the Apple iPhone has changed our expectations of how a mobile phone should look and work. But while the iPhone comes with an exceptionally good web browser and a range of other software, years after its launch the options for push email are still disappointing. Blackberry was the first major […]

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Corporate customers and software developers were unable to access Microsoft’s MSDN benefits portal for much of today. The portal provides MSDN subscribers with access to downloads of Microsoft products and license keys. Although Microsoft has not issued a statement about the problem, the problem came to light in The Hypervisor Lab when one of our […]

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In a head to head test of AVG and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, The Hypervisor lab results show the Kaspersky suite discovered and removed more Trojan and virus software than AVG. However, neither package was able to completely clean our PC and we needed to format the hard disk and reinstall Windows to fully fix the […]

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I’ve recently been working on a project to make Lotus Notes email available to users of the Apple iPhone. It turns out there’s quite a few commercial products that claim to do this, but most of the ones I’ve tried seem to not work properly. Perhaps this is because IBM recently announced support for direct […]

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