On Tuesday (November 18th) The ZoneAlarm Pro firewall software will be free for 24 hours. It is in celebration of Check Point’s 15th anniversary. ZoneAlarm Pro is an antispyware, firewall, and ID protection suite that normally costs $39.95. At 6 AM PDT, Tuesday morning this page: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.html Will become live and provide instructions for downloading […]
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Earlier this week I wrote about how AVG prompted for the removal of a critical windows file. This was due to an invalid signature that made User32.dll look like a virus, when it wasn’t. If you “Healed” the file, Windows would no longer boot. On Thrusday, AVG announced: “As a follow-up to the rapid distribution […]
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I have been digging up as much information possible about Windows 2008 R2. Mostly because I fear that Windows 7, and 2008 R2 will be another smack down for us in regard to application compatibility. According to a Windows 2008 server blog: WoW64 support for 32bit applications is now an optional feature in Server Core […]
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In their quest to compete with the iPhone, Research In Motion has developed the BlackBerry storm. For quite some time BlackBerry has had a grip on the corporate environment. That was starting to fall apart with the iPhone. We can attest to that from our own informal sampling here. For a long time we would […]
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Microsoft has recently released patch MS08-068 – Another SMB remote code execution bug. It allows anyone who exploits the flaw to take control of that computer. If you have not gotten the patch yet – I would get it as soon as you can. The disturbing part is that Microsoft knew about this flaw as […]
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VMWare’s competitor, Parallels, has just released 4.0 of their Virtualization product. It is a Mac only product, but many Windows users (like me) only use Windows in a virtual environment on a Mac. From Parallels, here is a list of new features:Redesigned User Interface – provides quick access to all virtual machines. Parallels Desktop 4.0 […]
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Yesterday the AVG virus scanner accidentally marked User32.dll as a virus. Since this is a critical windows component, it has caused many machines not to boot. Two of our XP machines experienced the issue here, but it has not seemed to have bothered our Vista installs. This happened because their scanner contained an incorrect virus […]
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Microsoft has announced some of the new features of 2008 R2, a server update that will coincide with the release of Windows 7. Starting with R2 all server releases from Microsoft will be 64 bit only. From this point on Microsoft will no longer ship a 32 bit server OS. One of the more interesting […]
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The noise about Windows 7 is growing. If you haven’t heard, Windows 7 is the next version of Windows. Microsoft has said that it will be released fourth quarter 2009. If Windows Vista is the Windows ME of the new millennium, then Windows 7 should be the Windows XP. If you have ever used Windows […]
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Finally – Remote Control 3.0 has been released We appreciate all of the hard work our Beta testers have done for us. Here is a link to the trial: http://www.intelliadmin.com/setupex.exe Screen Shots: http://www.intelliadmin.com/RemoteControl3_ScreenShots.htm All current customers should receive an email sometime on October 31st (Today). If you do not get your email…drop us a line […]
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