by wwarren | Sep 22, 2010 | Microsoft, Security
I have severals tweaks with group policy that combined with a decent a/v malware is reduced to a small chance. Now that this is now true as soon as they open up the partner branding I have one client that uses avg, another that uses Kaspersky(which is currently...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2010 | Church, Linux, Microsoft, NPO's, Open Source
Well I have gotten one of the donated servers fired up. It’s a dual Xeon 2.0 GHZ HT with dual 36 gig 10 SCSI hdd’s in raid 1. This is now running Untangle as the firewall. This frees up the Dell server (which is a Xeon 3.0 GHZ HT 2 gig dual 250 gigs...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2010 | Hardware, Intel, Microsoft, Vendors, Windows
Ok folks. Here it comes. MS and Intel(Wintel is NOT dead) wants to have everything signed by it so that there’s no more bad or malicious code. Of course this would put an end to the open source movement and several other industries in the software arena(which...
by wwarren | Aug 7, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Server 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft has released the fix for the LNK issue. this coming Tuesday is going to be a monster patch day with a total of 37 issues fixed in 14 patches.
by wwarren | Jul 31, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Server 2008, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Normally I advocate caution in major patches. This hole however is so important that i am going to immediately patch and then workaround any issues this is going to cause. Again on mOnday htis patch gets released. PATCH IMMEDIATLY!!! Read the previous advisories I...
by wwarren | Jul 29, 2010 | Microsoft, Server 2008, Windows
I had my server setup as best as i could. I had a RAID 1 mirror on both of my drives. Not only that I had shadow copies being made on the array. Finally I had everything being backed up to an external hard drive. Last night my server started acting funny. Putting...