Adobe has released a fix for the flaw I wrote about a few weeks ago. The patch fixes a bug that exposed Windows XP users to attackers sending PDF files containing viruses and maleware. If you search across the net, you will find that numerous exploits are running in the wild. Here is the short […]
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I have a few different servers I remote into all the time using Microsoft Remote Desktop. One of the big problems I have is that I use a wireless phone to connect, and often the Remote Desktop session is lost in mid stream. After a few reconnects, and lost connections you will get this error […]
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When I move a user to a new machine I like to move everything. Yes it sounds obvious. But I like to get down to that last detail, that others seem to pass off as unimportant. For example, I explained a few weeks ago on how to backup and restore the auto complete data in […]
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One of the things I like about Exchange is its ability to retain messages – even after you delete them. One way you really can be a hero in IT is to restore that very important message your boss “Stored” in deleted items (See note at bottom)…and then accidentally emptied the folder. Worse yet, is […]
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Over the past few years I have received many emails asking what the admin$ share is used for, and what are the security implications when using it. This share has been present in all of the “NT” versions of windows. This means Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The share is […]
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The one click shutdown article has gotten a lot of attention. A reader named John, has sent me a nice email with a few good tips in it…so I thought I would share it with you. Here it is:Hi, Just wanted to see if you were aware of the fact that you can actuallymake it […]
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I just finished helping a friend remove some pretty bad spyware from his system. In addition to the usual removal tools – AdAware, and Spybot I found the Autoruns utility from Sysinternals to be very useful. It is a comprehensive piece of software that will allow you to see every possible startup program in one […]
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When I worked as an IT administrator at a large company I cringed when I saw a message like this float by: Usually in the To field it was sent to “All Employees”. A large number of attachments work fine when everyone is directly connected to Exchange on the LAN. The problem arises when users […]
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Yes it is a strange error message. After removing McAfee Anti-Virus from one of my machines I kept getting this each time I launched Outlook: I thought I could stop the error by going into advanced options and disable the old McAfee extensions. Unfortunately – nothing from McAfee was there After doing some searching over […]
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ISO files are images of physical CD and DVD ROMS. You can use to burn them to disk. Microsoft now distributes many of their DVD, and CD ROMs from their website in this format. Many times you just want to pull a few files off the ISO without burning it to physical media. Microsoft has […]
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