by wwarren | Mar 5, 2009 | Open Source, SBS 2008, Storage
I was excited about carbonite. The backup side works great…the restore is a disaster. Two days after a server crash and i am waiting on carbonite to give me back my files. SBS 2008 backup sucks for DR and i was depending on carbonite to save my behind. ...
by wwarren | Mar 3, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
Conficker Collateral Damage for March 2009. This is one side effect of the conficker worm. Since it generates random doains to try to get instructions for if your site is the site of the day you are going to get hammered. On March 13 it will be southwest...
by wwarren | Mar 3, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
Protecting Against the Rampant Conficker Worm – PC World. It’s called conficker or downandup and it’s another attack against a bad design in the windows system. Conficker affects ALL versions of windows in one form or another. The primary means...
by wwarren | Mar 3, 2009 | Open Source, Security
After CERT warning, Microsoft delivers AutoRun fix | ITworld. It’s about time. I have been trying to kill U3 forever among other autorun enabled garbage. ALL ECC managed network will get this patch pushed out to them.
by wwarren | Feb 6, 2009 | Open Source, Windows 7
Windows 7 exploit secured, say Voles – The Inquirer. Ughhhh..i hope this is a minor tweak. It’s a total non-issue if you don’t run as the amdinistrator…if windows would not set ypu up as admin by default this would not be an...
by wwarren | Feb 6, 2009 | Open Source, Security, Windows 7
Microsoft under spotlight for Windows 7 security ‘flaw’ | IT PRO. Supposedly you can make a script or program that an turn off UAC in Windows 7 without user intervention..except..there’s one catch..you have to be an administrator to do it. If you...
by wwarren | Jan 31, 2009 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
Well i had an issue with my server which has now been fixed. Windows 7 right now is much better than vista. It’s not up to XP speeds but with the DRM infestation and Aero it’s not going to be..it runs a bunch better than vista AND uac so far is not...
by wwarren | Jan 26, 2009 | Microsoft, Security, Windows
New to the botnet scene is Conficker, a botnet that exploits a critical security vulnerability Microsoft actually patched in late October. It may be time for Microsoft to begin forcing critical security updates upon home users. via Time for forced updates? Conficker...
by wwarren | Jan 24, 2009 | Security, Security Alerts
SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community – Internet Security – isc. I never believe any company when they say on non-criticalo informaiton was stolen. Expecially in light of hte following statement: “including user IDs and...
by wwarren | Jan 20, 2009 | Hardware, Storage
AnandTech. I hit this issue with the onetouch series 4 external drives. Anything based on the barracuda .11 series is having issues. I had to return the drives and go with some seagate laptop external drives.
