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Security researchers at Microsoft last week warned of a significant increase in exploits of the SMB flaw in Windows. The flaw was patched with an emergency fix last month. Microsoft again urged users to install the patch if they have not already done so. The patch can be found here Microsoft’s malware protection center said […]
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I am using the Thanksgiving holiday as a perfect time to upgrade our internal servers. I had already installed 2008 at our main site, and the backup site. Since everything was already running I could do it from home using our IntelliAdmin Remote Control. Within a few hours I got all the files in place, […]
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I lied. This is not the 5 sins of Windows 7, but the 5 sins of Vista undone. When Vista was first released I wrote an article titled “The 5 Sins of Vista” Each Sin was a bug or issue with Vista that I thought needed to be fixed. Lets look at all 5 of […]
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I just received an email from Mike: Hi, I have a 10-year-old daughter, and I’m concerned that she might be doing some shady things on her computer. I was told about “Intelliadmin” to discreetly watch her computer from my own on the same network. Is this something you can provide? Please give me some information… […]
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I recently received an email: Dear Steve, I was going through google search and I came across your script. Please, how do I reset the network users home page to a particular website and make it permanent such that they would not change it? Thanks. Normally the answer would be to use group policy. But […]
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We have updated our blog. We now have a full text search, a mailing list (so you can be notified when new articles are published, software released, etc)…and now you can comment on articles – something many of you have been requesting over and over. If you have been using a RSS reader to subscribe, […]
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From time to time I have accidentally typed in the wrong address in Outlook. To make matters worse the wrong email address comes up every time when I start typing. I searched for quite some time trying to figure out how to remove items from the list – until finally I discovered the obvious. To […]
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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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