In my never ending quest for the best, most versatile, most useful, most simplistic remote support tools I’ve finally come across a shining jewel amidst all of the dross. TeamViewer is the best free support tool I’ve run into in a long time, and if you keep reading you’ll find out why.
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Today Microsoft released an manual workaround for closing the SMB2 flaw revealed earlier this month. Initially the flaw was believed to only allow an attacker to crash a vulnerable machine, but since that time more exploits have been released which allow remote control and penetration of unpatched systems.
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If you’ve been paying attention to alternative energy news over the last week or two you will have noticed a lot of buzz about something called a MicroFueler. Just going off of the name a person might assume it’s just a very tiny gas can, but that person would be an idiot. The MicroFueler is in actuality a compact Ethanol production facility. E-Fuel has been developing it for the last year or so and recently installed their first unit in San Diego. More units are expected to begin shipping any day now. What does all of this have to do with you? Read on to find out.

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The second item for my “Month of Annoying Error Messages” is the pestiferous phrase titling this update. Another in Microsoft’s lexicon of extremely vague and unhelpful errors messages this one simply suggests a POSSIBLE problem. It can’t even definitively say you don’t have permission, only that you might not. With that in mind there are actually quite a few possible solutions for this one and I plan to enumerate as many as I can for your enlightenment.
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If you’ve done some networking with Vista Home Premium you may have run into this extremely vague and frustrated error, well fret not I have a simple solution for you to make this headache go away.
This error is usually caused by a problem with the “guest” account in Home Premium (it also affects other versions of Vista) and the simplest solution is to:
1) Right click “Computer” and select “Manage.”
2) Select “Local Users and Groups” and select “Users”
3) Ensure the “Guest” account exists. If not, create it. (It should be there by default but disabled.)
4) Double click the “Guest” account and remove the checkmark from “Disable this account.” If it exists.

Now if you find that the “Guest” account is already created and enabled and you are getting this error then the solution is actually to CHECK the “Disable this account” box.
So far I’ve been unable to determine exactly why this situation exists, but consistently one of these two things has solved the issue.