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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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Microsoft has released an update for IE 7. The big news – it no longer requires Windows Validation. This means you can install it even if MS detects your copy of windows is not genuine. I downloaded it to see if there were any other differences. You can do the same by just downloading the […]
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The latest flaws in Acrobat reader have been annoying at best, and very dangerous to your network at worst. A few weeks back a security researcher claimed that he found a flaw that was in just about every version of Acrobat Reader that would allow him to take control of a PC. Petko Petkov, a […]
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After I wrote about the Office compatibility pack, a reader asked this question: I just saw your post on the compatibility pack. This seems like an ideal thing we can use here, but I can’t seem to locate the msi file so I can push it through the domain After doing some experimentation and using […]
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Many administrators are always looking for easier ways to deploy applications across their network. I find it amazing the number of times I have spoken with other Windows Admins, and they have never used the package deployment features of group policy. It works well, and I am going to walk you through a simple application […]
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