RE: Life just keeps getting better....
Overblown IMHO - the example is talking about loading bad kernel code - you need to be an admin to do that - on x64 systems the bad driver would have to be signed - the AV system should have picked up the bad code being placed onto the system prior to anyone executing it - I don't see how this bypasses signature based detection. It would only, potentially, bypass some kind of HIPS based protection. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Life just keeps getting better How to bypass almost all AV software http://www.matousec.com/info/articles/khobe-8.0-earthquake-for-windows-desktop-security-software.php Including VIPRE, and all of the big names that I can think of. It takes a bit of effort, but it will probably be commodified shortly, I expect. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
SEP increased my user logoff times on MPS 4.5 by about 30-40 seconds. Caused in my opinion by the problem a lot of AV vendors have - trying to be more than the end-user requires. Once I stopped installing the full-fat version and limited it to only AV and antispyware, it started behaving more like an antivirus product and less like a bloated, unnecessary suite of difficult-to-manage security products. I've since moved to Vipre and found it a lot easier, both in terms of installation, footprint, and maintenance. Having said that, I haven't been bitten by any of the FPs that came out lately either, but I am much happier with Sunbelt's product. However, seeing as though we have mandatory profiles, a very tight Group Policy implementation, application whitelisting and various other layers of security, our AV doesn't do much at all, bar catch the EICAR test strings we send out occasionally. On 9 May 2010 22:34, James Hill james.h...@superamart.com.au wrote: IMO SEP was a disaster when it was first released. It was supposed to fix the problems with the previous product (Symantec Corporate Edition, which I can remember having to completely renstall on every server we had as it wouldn't update anymore and that was Symantec's fix for the issue). We were an early adopter of Windows 2008 Server and SEP caused us massive pain. It broke shares left right and centre and would bring servers to a halt. It took about 3 releases from when the problem was identified before it was fixed. Of course each of those releases was claimed to fix the problem. This was just one of its issues. There were many. I swore black and blue when with my previous employer that I wouldn't touch Symantec AV again. Then I inherited it in my current job and I've been singing the same thing. Not to mention we also battle with some of their other products. Backup Exec (update a backup exec server and watch it stop the sql service on the sql server its database is on... too bad for the other databases on there) and Enterprise Vault provide their share of pain as well. Having said that, SEP has worked pretty well since MR5. Nothing major has broken for a while and it seems to stop all threats except for those Fake AV malwares (which many of the big players seem to struggle with). The management console is quite easy to use, there is a good amount of control over how defs are deployed. The group updater function is great(now that it finally works properly). To be honest it has been very solid for a while now but we will probably look at Microsoft's offering next time. -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 6:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr
Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f
Hi chaps,. Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate chkdsk c: /f remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to tell it to run on the next reboot. Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a chkdsk c: /f? CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm hoping we can edit this directly. Olly [cid:personal21eb.jpg] [cid:g2supportsmall_250x58borderbb3.png] Network Support Online Backups Server Management Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web: http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: personal21eb.jpginline: g2supportsmall_250x58borderbb3.png
RE: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f
Can you do it like this c:\windows\system32\chkdsk /r |y Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Ultraframe design and manufacture innovative and quality conservatory solutions to suit all styles, all applications, all consumers and every price point. By demonstrating our company values of innovation, integrity, total quality, premium service and customer first, we will to continue to build our position as UK market leader. For more information visit our website: www.ultraframe.co.uk The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. This email is subject to copyright and the information contained in it is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: 10 May 2010 09:32 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f Hi chaps,. Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate chkdsk c: /f remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to tell it to run on the next reboot. Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a chkdsk c: /f? CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm hoping we can edit this directly. Olly Network Support Online Backups Server Management Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web: http://www.g2support.com http://www.g2support.com/ Twitter: g2support http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~personal21eb.jpgg2supportsmall_250x58borderbb3.png
Re: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f
Have you tried using psexec to send the command, either with a /y on the end, or by using an *echo *command to send the y? e.g. *echo y|chkdsk c: /F /R* On 10 May 2010 09:31, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps,. Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate chkdsk c: /f remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to tell it to run on the next reboot. Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a chkdsk c: /f? CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm hoping we can edit this directly. Olly Network Support Online Backups Server Management Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web: http://www.g2support.com Twitter: g2support http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~g2supportsmall_250x58borderbb3.pngpersonal21eb.jpg
RE: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f
Cheers chaps; echo y|chkdsk c: /f just made the command prompt window sit there with a flashing cursor for ages while everything else around it stopped responding. c:\windows\system32\chkdsk /r |y doesnt appear to work at all Any others? -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletterhttp://www.g2support.com/newsletter From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 10 May 2010 10:05 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f Have you tried using psexec to send the command, either with a /y on the end, or by using an echo command to send the y? e.g. echo y|chkdsk c: /F /R On 10 May 2010 09:31, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps,. Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate chkdsk c: /f remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to tell it to run on the next reboot. Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a chkdsk c: /f? CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm hoping we can edit this directly. Olly [cid:image002.png@01CAF02D.89277720] Network Support Online Backups Server Management Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web: http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.png
RE: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f
Actually James, ignore what I said, I tried it again and it does appear to work. Thanks -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletterhttp://www.g2support.com/newsletter From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 10 May 2010 10:05 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f Have you tried using psexec to send the command, either with a /y on the end, or by using an echo command to send the y? e.g. echo y|chkdsk c: /F /R On 10 May 2010 09:31, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi chaps,. Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate chkdsk c: /f remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to tell it to run on the next reboot. Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a chkdsk c: /f? CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm hoping we can edit this directly. Olly [cid:image002.png@01CAF02D.A3F2E6C0] Network Support Online Backups Server Management Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.commailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web: http://www.g2support.comhttp://www.g2support.com/ Twitter: g2supporthttp://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.png
odd computer issues: users claims pc not shutdown, after shutting it down from prior workday or weekend
odd computer issues: users claims pc not shutdown, after shutting it down from prior workday or weekend User is on domain And when she arrives next morning Her pc still shutting down, forcing her to reboot Could it be a issue with av, networking not sure I went checked pc and it shutdown normally. -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: odd computer issues: users claims pc not shutdown, after shutting it down from prior workday or weekend
Vast amount of things could cause this. What OS is it on? Might help narrow down the possible causes. On 10 May 2010 10:54, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: odd computer issues: users claims pc not shutdown, after shutting it down from prior workday or weekend User is on domain And when she arrives next morning Her pc still shutting down, forcing her to reboot Could it be a issue with av, networking not sure I went checked pc and it shutdown normally. -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Except that Microsoft has great OSes out concurrently with WinME, so you still had good options available from them. Symantec's products were simply crappy all the way through. They had to purchase SyGate's product to arrive at the not-quite-so-crappy-anymore product they have today. If you're happy with Symantec, then by all means continue to use them. No one has suggested that they have a 100% failure rate, or no-one would be using them. But enough of us have been burned enough times over a sufficient period of time to choose one of the many viable alternatives on the market. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT-ish large quantity LCD monitor recommendation
We have about 1500 Ultrasharps. I think we have had about 20 need replacement, so just a tad over 1%. I believe most of them were power supplies. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:23 PM, David blazer...@gmail.com wrote: The shop I work for parttime is strictly a Dell shop, and they just never have any problems with their Dell units. They're now ordering the wide 22-inch units, I think those are ultrasharp as you mention. The reliability and standardization on an enterprise basis makes it a no-brainer for me, I'd stick with Dell. David On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: We've been a Dell Desktop shop for years. We've been VERY pleased with the Dell UltraSharp line for a long time. While I know that Dell just has another manufacturer re-brand/re-package their panels in a Dell enclosure, I've yet to find a monitor that compares for the price (when matching the specs, line by line). We tried Acer a few years back and were burned by frequent failures. We recently bought some Planar units, and the clarity isn't as good, and some of them have bad pixels, which we've NEVER seen on the Dell units. Now that we're headed away from Dell toward Lenovo (via PC Connection), we're looking to possibly switching to a different monitor altogether. I'd like some recommendations as to where to turn, or if I should just stick with Dell for their monitors. If you buy significant quantities of monitors (10 at a time or more), please share your experiences, particularly if you've ever used any of the Dell Ultrasharp. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA www.eaglemds.com jra...@eaglemds.com Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- David _ These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. --Thomas Paine, 1776 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Powershell Question
I can't think of a way to EASILY do that without post-processing the input array: $in = gc file.txt $ary = @() for ($i = 0; $i -lt $in.Length; $i += 2) { $ary += $in[$i] } But that isn't very efficient. I'd just process every other line of the input array. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: mck1012 [mailto:mck1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 10:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell Question I am trying to read in a text file and putting the odd lines in a array. The text file is a list of names like the example below. So my array would have ServerOne,ServerThree,ServerFive in it. ServerOne ServerTwo ServerThree ServerFour ServerFive ServerSix Thanks for the help ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
I said that you cannot talk about things that you didn't try GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 14.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
As I _AM_ running both SAV and SEP, I guess I'll file that away as advice for the future... -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I said that you cannot talk about things that you didn't try GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 14.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally,
Strangeness with Windows XP laptop
Here's the situation: I have a few laptops that I manage running XP Pro SP3. Last night (Sunday) one of my users called me at home saying he had been working on an important presentation and when he went to print it, he realized he didn't have his home printer installed, so he tried to hook up an old HP Inkjet he had at home. Then after installing the drivers, Windows said it needed to reboot and when he did, it all went south. The laptop would not let him log back in as it did not recognize his USERID and a friend of his (an IT Manager for a big telecom company which shall not be revealed) poked around and couldn't find his profile (on the d: drive) so they called me. I drove an hour into the office to meet him and I found the same thing. It wouldn't even recognize *my* profile. It gave me an error when I tried to log in that a Google search turned up a Microsoft article about too many security products installed. The error was 0x0035 NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS. The article gave a registry hack that should fix it if a hotfix was applied, prior to SP3. The same article stated that the hotfix was included in SP3, but it also said that if the hotfix was not installed, the registry hack would be ignored. It *did* allow me to log in as the local admin in safe mode, but would not let me log onto a domain account, even after the registry hack. I was also unable to pull up the installed programs list (add/remove programs) as the local admin in safe mode. I ended up wiping and reinstalling Windows. Office and Vipre Enterprise. I also had to format the D: drive as Windows said it was not formatted. Now one thing I haven't mentioned until now was that I had upgraded Vipre Enterprise from Vipre 3.x to Vipre 4 the previous week, and advised the user to restart his computer. He never got around to restarting it until Sunday evening after installing the HP printer driver. Any clue what could have happened? John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Who did write it ? At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 15.05 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? As I _AM_ running both SAV and SEP, I guess I'll file that away as advice for the future... -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I said that you cannot talk about things that you didn't try GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 14.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? With all the passion and sincerity I can muster...NO! From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Oh, HELLS NO... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?
Look the original poster asked who was running SAV and their experience. I gave my experience for SAV, and for SEP, and called them out separately. We are running both, and I've disclosed to what extent my experience with SEP is limited by time. This is nothing at all like only running WinME and opting to comment on Win2K without having touched it. Feel free to have the last word I'll not waste my time arguing with you. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Who did write it ? At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 15.05 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? As I _AM_ running both SAV and SEP, I guess I'll file that away as advice for the future... -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I said that you cannot talk about things that you didn't try GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 14.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? I'm not even sure what you are trying to say. -sc -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Is the same telling MS has crappy Oss when the last tried was Windows ME!| GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 0.51 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? Clients all of the sudden becoming unmanageable from the console and needing manual intervention. At least that was the case with 2 previous versions of SAV, haven't been running SEP long enough to have seen if that's been fixed yet. -sc -Original Message- From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? For those runng symantec what the biggest issues postive and negative. Just want to be open minded. On 5/9/10, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: We have SEP because the larger gov. organization we are a part of has standardized on it, and thus has a contract that makes the price attractive. I haven't had much success trying to convince them otherwise. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We're using SEP because we're implementing NAC and it also does AV, firewall etc. We also have to have a separate desktop security product to our server security product. Cheers Ken From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, 9 May 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? We are running SAV because we are a Symantec Partner, therefore I assume we get it for free. But, if I had the decision I would switch to VIPRE in a flash. I have nothing against Symantec, in fact they have a strong portfolio of solutions. However, their Antivirus / Endpoint Protection is unwieldy, badly designed and above all a bloated resource drainer. I would be very surprised if anyone here came out strongly in favour of SAV, but I would be very interested to hear if anyone has positive experiences. Always want to be open minded. Regards, andrew On 9 May 2010 10:10, Dave Florea blazer...@gmail.com wrote: Cold day in Hades. Sent slowly via my BBerry... From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:31:20 -0400
RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
Anyone else getting this when they try to goto Sunbelt's Message of the Day (May 7th) from within Vipre? The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator. The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred While Processing Request Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid object name 'munchkin_links'. The error occurred in D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 279 : /cfquery 280 : !--- Marketo: Munchkin code + links --- 281 : cfquery datasource='sunbelt' name='master_munchkin_links' cachedwithin='#master_cache_timespan#' 282 : select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 283 : /cfquery SQLSTATE 42S02 SQL select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 VENDORERRORCODE 208 DATASOURCE sunbelt Resources: Check the ColdFusion documentation http://www.macromedia.com/go/proddoc_getdoc to verify that you are using the correct syntax. Search the Knowledge Base http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ to find a solution to your problem. Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Remote Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Referrer http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license=XXX version=3.1.3121.0 http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license=XX Xversion=3.1.3121.0 Date/Time 10-May-10 09:25 AM From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 6:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one was that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in our test bed. Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, of course. -- Ben . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
That's what they get for using CF. ;-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Anyone else getting this when they try to goto Sunbelt's Message of the Day (May 7th) from within Vipre? The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator. The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred While Processing Request Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid object name 'munchkin_links'. The error occurred in D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 279 : /cfquery 280 : !--- Marketo: Munchkin code + links --- 281 : cfquery datasource='sunbelt' name='master_munchkin_links' cachedwithin='#master_cache_timespan#' 282 : select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 283 : /cfquery SQLSTATE 42S02 SQL select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 VENDORERRORCODE 208 DATASOURCE sunbelt Resources: Check the ColdFusion documentationhttp://www.macromedia.com/go/proddoc_getdoc to verify that you are using the correct syntax. Search the Knowledge Basehttp://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ to find a solution to your problem. Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Remote Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Referrer http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license=XXXversion=3.1.3121.0 Date/Time 10-May-10 09:25 AM From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 6:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.commailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one was that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in our test bed. Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, of course. -- Ben . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
R: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
I connected from the link above with no issue (not from within Vipre) GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Inviato: lunedì 10 maggio 2010 15.25 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Anyone else getting this when they try to goto Sunbelt's Message of the Day (May 7th) from within Vipre? The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator. The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred While Processing Request Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid object name 'munchkin_links'. The error occurred in D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 279 : /cfquery 280 : !--- Marketo: Munchkin code + links --- 281 : cfquery datasource='sunbelt' name='master_munchkin_links' cachedwithin='#master_cache_timespan#' 282 : select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 283 : /cfquery _ SQLSTATE 42S02 SQL select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 VENDORERRORCODE 208 DATASOURCE sunbelt Resources: Check the ColdFusion http://www.macromedia.com/go/proddoc_getdoc documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax. Search the Knowledge Base http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ to find a solution to your problem. Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Remote Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Referrer http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license= http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license=XXXversion=3.1.3121.0 XXXversion=3.1.3121.0 Date/Time 10-May-10 09:25 AM _ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 6:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one was that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in our test bed. Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, of course. -- Ben . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Strangeness with Windows XP laptop
Short version: User has admin rights. Long version: Modelel of the printer is missing, users need to be trained to restart when Vipre or Windows tells them to restart. Instructing them on the consequences of failing to do the restart when requested is just as important. Lastly, employees should not allow IT people not from your company to touch the laptop. You have no idea of what he did, and even if he told you what he did, he likely forgot something unless he was taking notes while he was doing it. There's a huge black hole of missing information that can only be filled in by speculation, or someone who has the same exact printer and also underwent the vipre upgrade and proceeded to ignore the restart warning that it is unlikely you'll have a (satisfactory) answer. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:11 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Here’s the situation: I have a few laptops that I manage running XP Pro SP3. Last night (Sunday) one of my users called me at home saying he had been working on an important presentation and when he went to print it, he realized he didn’t have his home printer installed, so he tried to hook up an old HP Inkjet he had at home. Then after installing the drivers, Windows said it needed to reboot and when he did, it all went south. The laptop would not let him log back in as it did not recognize his USERID and a friend of his (an IT Manager for a big telecom company which shall not be revealed) poked around and couldn’t find his profile (on the d: drive) so they called me. I drove an hour into the office to meet him and I found the same thing. It wouldn’t even recognize **my** profile. It gave me an error when I tried to log in that a Google search turned up a Microsoft article about too many security products installed. The error was 0x0035 NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS. The article gave a registry hack that should fix it if a hotfix was applied, prior to SP3. The same article stated that the hotfix was included in SP3, but it also said that if the hotfix was not installed, the registry hack would be ignored. It **did** allow me to log in as the local admin in safe mode, but would not let me log onto a domain account, even after the registry hack. I was also unable to pull up the installed programs list (add/remove programs) as the local admin in safe mode. I ended up wiping and reinstalling Windows. Office and Vipre Enterprise. I also had to format the D: drive as Windows said it was not formatted. Now one thing I haven’t mentioned until now was that I had upgraded Vipre Enterprise from Vipre 3.x to Vipre 4 the previous week, and advised the user to restart his computer. He never got around to restarting it until Sunday evening after installing the HP printer driver. Any clue what could have happened? [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Strangeness with Windows XP laptop
Thanks. That's kind of what I thought. When I rebuilt the laptop, I did NOT add the user to the local admins group, so hopefully this won't happen again. I just find it strange that the D: drive was showing up as unformatted. About the only thing I could attribute this to was some sort of fatal interaction between Vipre and the Embassy Trust Suite which may have been installed on there originally, but why it would ONLY affect the D: drive, I don't know. In any case, I guess we can chalk this up as resolved but still have lots of questions. Note that I did NOT authorize the friend to look at the laptop. The user took it upon himself to do this. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Strangeness with Windows XP laptop Short version: User has admin rights. Long version: Modelel of the printer is missing, users need to be trained to restart when Vipre or Windows tells them to restart. Instructing them on the consequences of failing to do the restart when requested is just as important. Lastly, employees should not allow IT people not from your company to touch the laptop. You have no idea of what he did, and even if he told you what he did, he likely forgot something unless he was taking notes while he was doing it. There's a huge black hole of missing information that can only be filled in by speculation, or someone who has the same exact printer and also underwent the vipre upgrade and proceeded to ignore the restart warning that it is unlikely you'll have a (satisfactory) answer. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:11 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Here's the situation: I have a few laptops that I manage running XP Pro SP3. Last night (Sunday) one of my users called me at home saying he had been working on an important presentation and when he went to print it, he realized he didn't have his home printer installed, so he tried to hook up an old HP Inkjet he had at home. Then after installing the drivers, Windows said it needed to reboot and when he did, it all went south. The laptop would not let him log back in as it did not recognize his USERID and a friend of his (an IT Manager for a big telecom company which shall not be revealed) poked around and couldn't find his profile (on the d: drive) so they called me. I drove an hour into the office to meet him and I found the same thing. It wouldn't even recognize *my* profile. It gave me an error when I tried to log in that a Google search turned up a Microsoft article about too many security products installed. The error was 0x0035 NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS. The article gave a registry hack that should fix it if a hotfix was applied, prior to SP3. The same article stated that the hotfix was included in SP3, but it also said that if the hotfix was not installed, the registry hack would be ignored. It *did* allow me to log in as the local admin in safe mode, but would not let me log onto a domain account, even after the registry hack. I was also unable to pull up the installed programs list (add/remove programs) as the local admin in safe mode. I ended up wiping and reinstalling Windows. Office and Vipre Enterprise. I also had to format the D: drive as Windows said it was not formatted. Now one thing I haven't mentioned until now was that I had upgraded Vipre Enterprise from Vipre 3.x to Vipre 4 the previous week, and advised the user to restart his computer. He never got around to restarting it until Sunday evening after installing the HP printer driver. Any clue what could have happened? John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Wireless Routers
This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Wireless Routers
Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that **will** work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.commailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CAF02B.328EF4D0][cid:image002@01caf02b.328ef4d0] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Just a quick response to your Anti-Netgear attitude. I've had 2 Netgear WIFI's and they both work just fine. When I moved up to a Rangemax, I gave my old one to a friend and he reports no problems. Oh, that was more than 2 years ago. I've worked on other brands at work, but I'm very happy with my Netgear.I highly recvommend them. BTW, when friends and relatives come over with laptops, we have no problems connecting, and some of these people have MAC's. I'm using WPA2 and I always have radio broadcast turned off. Murray From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
I usually have at least one employee a month telling me they can't get their new wireless router to work and if I have any advice. First question is if it's a Netgear. So far I'm batting 1000. Tell them to take it back and get a linksys/cisco branded one. From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Nope, but I did review the settings on it, and I had the paperwork from Geeksquad from when they originally set it up, which included the wireless password. It would connect but it would never get an IP address. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What?s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client?s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short ? if I ever have a job where I can?t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I?m not even going to spend time on it, I?ll just tell the client I?m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I?d pass this along for anyone who?s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Convert 3gp to media player friendly?
I'd like to convert a 3gp file (video taken on a cell phone) to any format that can easily be played (video + sound) with Media Player 11. (free of course) This is for a senior exec who wants to watch the vid he took on his cell on his home computer. I have the 3GP file, hence I don't want them to have to download VLC, codecs, converters, etc... :) . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
African, or European? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook *From:* Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that **will** work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
What do you mean, an African or European Swallow? _ From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. :-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Blue, no...yellow Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
I'm pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I've had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that's part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
An African or European Swallow? From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Convert 3gp to media player friendly?
Ah... true.. And actually, I bet he already has QuickTime at home... especially since the whole family has iPods. And I think QT wants to install by default when you install/upgrade iTunes... along with Safari... UGH. Thanks!!! From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Convert 3gp to media player friendly? I've only got those to work on QuickTime. YMMV On 10 May 2010 15:28, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: I'd like to convert a 3gp file (video taken on a cell phone) to any format that can easily be played (video + sound) with Media Player 11. (free of course) This is for a senior exec who wants to watch the vid he took on his cell on his home computer. I have the 3GP file, hence I don't want them to have to download VLC, codecs, converters, etc... :) . -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
I had a similar experience with trouble shooting a friend's home network. She had a Netgear set up that was about a year and half old that included a router and additional access point. Nothing I did would get the Netgear to keep a consistent connection; including pushing the reset button(s). Changed to Linksys and everything came up fine. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I'm pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I've had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that's part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Geek Squad should not set these things up! If they do, they have no business leaving before confirming that the end user connects and gets IP settings, etc from it. (I don't believe they do this stuff for free, either.) Most of these things come with default settings wide-open, broadcasting SSID, no encryption, etc. It is highly desirable to go with a more secure set of security measures offered by the device. Now, if one chooses n, an encryption standard not supported by the users NIC, etc, one will either not connect or will connect but get no IP settings. Hey, if you can't connect, it is secure! BTW, it is possible for a coconut to drift from the Caribbean to the coast of Ireland via the Gulf Stream. Swallows need not be involved. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:28:17 AM: Nope, but I did review the settings on it, and I had the paperwork from Geeksquad from when they originally set it up, which included the wireless password. It would ?connect? but it would never get an IP address. [image removed] [image removed] From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client?s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short ? if I ever have a job where I can?t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I?m not even going to spend time on it, I?ll just tell the client I?m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I?d pass this along for anyone who?s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Well, there went Shook... Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:29:33 AM: Blue, no?yellow Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What?s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client?s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short ? if I ever have a job where I can?t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I?m not even going to spend time on it, I?ll just tell the client I?m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I?d pass this along for anyone who?s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
It was just a flesh wound...I'm good. Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Well, there went Shook... Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:29:33 AM: Blue, no...yellow Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
♫ Bravely ran away... ♫ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Well, there went Shook... Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:29:33 AM: Blue, no…yellow Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Good to see I'm not the only person having problems with Netgear equipment. I used to use Netgear for my ISDN dial-up accounts a few years back. Still have the ISDN routers, if anyone's interested. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I usually have at least one employee a month telling me they can't get their new wireless router to work and if I have any advice. First question is if it's a Netgear. So far I'm batting 1000. Tell them to take it back and get a linksys/cisco branded one. _ From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: [ot] Wireless Routers
That ain't what she said. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers It was just a flesh wound...I'm good. Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Well, there went Shook... Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.commailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:29:33 AM: Blue, no...yellow Shook From: richardmccl...@aspca.orgmailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]mailto:[mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.commailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com%0b wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
I would like to confess, however, that our Netgear WAP failed to provide a connection to one of our Mac users. I have reset it via the web GUI. If he still can't connect, I'll do a hard reset (pull the power cord). If he still can't connect, well, thanks John for the heads up on Netgear. (It had been doing fine for a couple of years.) -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA ®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote on 05/10/2010 09:38:04 AM: Geek Squad should not set these things up! If they do, they have no business leaving before confirming that the end user connects and gets IP settings, etc from it. (I don't believe they do this stuff for free, either.) Most of these things come with default settings wide-open, broadcasting SSID, no encryption, etc. It is highly desirable to go with a more secure set of security measures offered by the device. Now, if one chooses n, an encryption standard not supported by the users NIC, etc, one will either not connect or will connect but get no IP settings. Hey, if you can't connect, it is secure! BTW, it is possible for a coconut to drift from the Caribbean to the coast of Ireland via the Gulf Stream. Swallows need not be involved. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:28:17 AM: Nope, but I did review the settings on it, and I had the paperwork from Geeksquad from when they originally set it up, which included the wireless password. It would ?connect? but it would never get an IP address. [image removed] [image removed] From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client?s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short ? if I ever have a job where I can?t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I?m not even going to spend time on it, I?ll just tell the client I?m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I?d pass this along for anyone who?s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Yeah. well, it *was* working, until the user decided to move the router, only to discover that he didn't have an internet jack where he wanted the router, so I moved it back and ordered him a wireless PCI NIC for his desktop. That was the catalyst for the new router. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Geek Squad should not set these things up! If they do, they have no business leaving before confirming that the end user connects and gets IP settings, etc from it. (I don't believe they do this stuff for free, either.) Most of these things come with default settings wide-open, broadcasting SSID, no encryption, etc. It is highly desirable to go with a more secure set of security measures offered by the device. Now, if one chooses n, an encryption standard not supported by the users NIC, etc, one will either not connect or will connect but get no IP settings. Hey, if you can't connect, it is secure! BTW, it is possible for a coconut to drift from the Caribbean to the coast of Ireland via the Gulf Stream. Swallows need not be involved. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:28:17 AM: Nope, but I did review the settings on it, and I had the paperwork from Geeksquad from when they originally set it up, which included the wireless password. It would connect but it would never get an IP address. [image removed] [image removed] From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Understood, but had to make sure it wasn’t an incompatibility between 802.11A router and G clients or vice versa .. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I’m pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I’ve had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that’s part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Actually this reminded me, I did have a client a year or so ago with a similar problem, and changing the channel the Netgear used solved the connection issue for him. I can’t remember if we changed from channel 11 to 8, or 8 to 11 , but you get the idea. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I had a similar experience with trouble shooting a friend’s home network. She had a Netgear set up that was about a year and half old that included a router and additional access point. Nothing I did would get the Netgear to keep a consistent connection; including pushing the reset button(s). Changed to Linksys and everything came up fine. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I’m pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I’ve had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that’s part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Sweet...they go to 11 (name that movie :) ) I'm on a roll today, baby. Shook From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Actually this reminded me, I did have a client a year or so ago with a similar problem, and changing the channel the Netgear used solved the connection issue for him. I can't remember if we changed from channel 11 to 8, or 8 to 11 , but you get the idea. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I had a similar experience with trouble shooting a friend's home network. She had a Netgear set up that was about a year and half old that included a router and additional access point. Nothing I did would get the Netgear to keep a consistent connection; including pushing the reset button(s). Changed to Linksys and everything came up fine. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I'm pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I've had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that's part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. [cid:image001.jpg@01CAF02E.8BAC30C0][cid:image002@01caf02e.8bac30c0] From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CAF02E.8BAC30C0][cid:image002@01caf02e.8bac30c0] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Heh heh...Shook said swallow. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers An African or European Swallow? From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
WYSIWYG web site editors
Hi All A friend of mine runs a small truck racing team and has a website He wants to be able to put up photos/reviews of recent events etc. and has no web editing skills Does anybody know of any good and free WYSIWYG web editors? Thanks Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
Please. You need a Spinal Tap. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: Sweet…they go to 11 (name that movie J ) I’m on a roll today, baby. Shook *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Wireless Routers Actually this reminded me, I did have a client a year or so ago with a similar problem, and changing the channel the Netgear used solved the connection issue for him. I can’t remember if we changed from channel 11 to 8, or 8 to 11 , but you get the idea. *Erik Goldoff*** *IT Consultant* *Systems, Networks, Security * ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' *From:* Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Wireless Routers I had a similar experience with trouble shooting a friend’s home network. She had a Netgear set up that was about a year and half old that included a router and additional access point. Nothing I did would get the Netgear to keep a consistent connection; including pushing the reset button(s). Changed to Linksys and everything came up fine. *Bill Lambert* *Concuity* *Phone 847-941-9206* *The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. *** *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 9:32 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Wireless Routers I’m pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I’ve had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that’s part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? *Erik Goldoff*** *IT Consultant* *Systems, Networks, Security * ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that **will** work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image002.jpgimage001.jpg
RE: WYSIWYG web site editors
Why doesn't he use something like wordpress? Most hosting companies support this... -Original Message- From: Laurence Childs [mailto:laurence.chi...@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WYSIWYG web site editors Hi All A friend of mine runs a small truck racing team and has a website He wants to be able to put up photos/reviews of recent events etc. and has no web editing skills Does anybody know of any good and free WYSIWYG web editors? Thanks Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Convert 3gp to media player friendly?
www.mediaconverter.org From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Convert 3gp to media player friendly? I'd like to convert a 3gp file (video taken on a cell phone) to any format that can easily be played (video + sound) with Media Player 11. (free of course) This is for a senior exec who wants to watch the vid he took on his cell on his home computer. I have the 3GP file, hence I don't want them to have to download VLC, codecs, converters, etc... :) . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Convert 3gp to media player friendly?
Or. http://media-convert.com/ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Convert 3gp to media player friendly? I'd like to convert a 3gp file (video taken on a cell phone) to any format that can easily be played (video + sound) with Media Player 11. (free of course) This is for a senior exec who wants to watch the vid he took on his cell on his home computer. I have the 3GP file, hence I don't want them to have to download VLC, codecs, converters, etc... :) . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Don’t have time to name that movie, on the way to the hospital to have a Spinal Tap g Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Sweet…they go to 11 (name that movie J ) I’m on a roll today, baby. Shook From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Actually this reminded me, I did have a client a year or so ago with a similar problem, and changing the channel the Netgear used solved the connection issue for him. I can’t remember if we changed from channel 11 to 8, or 8 to 11 , but you get the idea. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I had a similar experience with trouble shooting a friend’s home network. She had a Netgear set up that was about a year and half old that included a router and additional access point. Nothing I did would get the Netgear to keep a consistent connection; including pushing the reset button(s). Changed to Linksys and everything came up fine. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I’m pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I’ve had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that’s part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Powershell Question
Thanks Michael. That helped out. From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 8:17:21 AM Subject: RE: Powershell Question I can’t think of a way to EASILY do that without post-processing the input array: $in = gc file.txt $ary = @() for ($i = 0; $i –lt $in.Length; $i += 2) { $ary += $in[$i] } But that isn’t very efficient. I’d just process every other line of the input array. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From:mck1012 [mailto:mck1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 10:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell Question I am trying to read in a text file and putting the odd lines in a array. The text file is a list of names like the example below. So my array would have ServerOne,ServerThree,ServerFive in it. ServerOne ServerTwo ServerThree ServerFour ServerFive ServerSix Thanks for the help ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Well, all I can do is tell you guys what *my* personal experience has been. YMMV and quite possibly does. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I would like to confess, however, that our Netgear WAP failed to provide a connection to one of our Mac users. I have reset it via the web GUI. If he still can't connect, I'll do a hard reset (pull the power cord). If he still can't connect, well, thanks John for the heads up on Netgear. (It had been doing fine for a couple of years.) -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote on 05/10/2010 09:38:04 AM: Geek Squad should not set these things up! If they do, they have no business leaving before confirming that the end user connects and gets IP settings, etc from it. (I don't believe they do this stuff for free, either.) Most of these things come with default settings wide-open, broadcasting SSID, no encryption, etc. It is highly desirable to go with a more secure set of security measures offered by the device. Now, if one chooses n, an encryption standard not supported by the users NIC, etc, one will either not connect or will connect but get no IP settings. Hey, if you can't connect, it is secure! BTW, it is possible for a coconut to drift from the Caribbean to the coast of Ireland via the Gulf Stream. Swallows need not be involved. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:28:17 AM: Nope, but I did review the settings on it, and I had the paperwork from Geeksquad from when they originally set it up, which included the wireless password. It would connect but it would never get an IP address. [image removed] [image removed] From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
RE: Wireless Routers
Nahh. that's all good. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Understood, but had to make sure it wasn't an incompatibility between 802.11A router and G clients or vice versa .. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I'm pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I've had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that's part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
As to the channel in use, 1,6 11 are the recommended channels for all wifi, but I've used all of them at one time or another. It seems that some of the newer wif's search for a quiet channel if there are a lot of units nearby. I have a dozen neighbors in my area that have wifi and several are always changing channels. I've been using 9 since that one ie rarely ever being switched to or being used at all. BTW, I'm using Inssider software to monitor my area. I've never noticed any difference among the channels, but I just prefer to be alone on a channel. Murray From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Actually this reminded me, I did have a client a year or so ago with a similar problem, and changing the channel the Netgear used solved the connection issue for him. I can't remember if we changed from channel 11 to 8, or 8 to 11 , but you get the idea. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I had a similar experience with trouble shooting a friend's home network. She had a Netgear set up that was about a year and half old that included a router and additional access point. Nothing I did would get the Netgear to keep a consistent connection; including pushing the reset button(s). Changed to Linksys and everything came up fine. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers I'm pretty sure the Netgear was an 802.11G router. The Dell laptop has a Dell Wireless Dual-Band WLAN card in it (on-board.) The Desktop machine had an Edimax EX-7128G 802.11 b/g card installed. Once I got the Linksys in, it connected right up and even got an IP address. Not to mention that the client said his Vista laptop had problems getting onto the internet that morning wirelessly. I've had problems with Netgear wireless routers before and that's part of the reason I will refuse to use Netgear wireless routers in the future. Wired, sure. Wireless, no. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Could be a dumb question, but what was the Netgear, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, and what was the wireless adapter in the user systems ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
Looks like a transient issue. Are you still finding this to be the case? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Anyone else getting this when they try to goto Sunbelt's Message of the Day (May 7th) from within Vipre? The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator. The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred While Processing Request Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid object name 'munchkin_links'. The error occurred in D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 279 : /cfquery 280 : !--- Marketo: Munchkin code + links --- 281 : cfquery datasource='sunbelt' name='master_munchkin_links' cachedwithin='#master_cache_timespan#' 282 : select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 283 : /cfquery SQLSTATE 42S02 SQL select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 VENDORERRORCODE 208 DATASOURCE sunbelt Resources: Check the ColdFusion documentationhttp://www.macromedia.com/go/proddoc_getdoc to verify that you are using the correct syntax. Search the Knowledge Basehttp://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ to find a solution to your problem. Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Remote Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Referrer http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license=XXXversion=3.1.3121.0 Date/Time 10-May-10 09:25 AM From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 6:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.commailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one was that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in our test bed. Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, of course. -- Ben . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
It's not a bad idea and we'll look into it. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one was that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in our test bed. Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, of course. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Convert 3gp to media player friendly?
Worked perfectly! Thank you From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Convert 3gp to media player friendly? www.mediaconverter.org From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Convert 3gp to media player friendly? I'd like to convert a 3gp file (video taken on a cell phone) to any format that can easily be played (video + sound) with Media Player 11. (free of course) This is for a senior exec who wants to watch the vid he took on his cell on his home computer. I have the 3GP file, hence I don't want them to have to download VLC, codecs, converters, etc... :) . . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
It works now. thx From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Looks like a transient issue. Are you still finding this to be the case? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Anyone else getting this when they try to goto Sunbelt's Message of the Day (May 7th) from within Vipre? The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error. Please contact the website administrator. The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred While Processing Request Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid object name 'munchkin_links'. The error occurred in D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 281 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\app_2008_vars.cfm: line 1 Called from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\Application.cfm: line 21 279 : /cfquery 280 : !--- Marketo: Munchkin code + links --- 281 : cfquery datasource='sunbelt' name='master_munchkin_links' cachedwithin='#master_cache_timespan#' 282 : select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 283 : /cfquery SQLSTATE 42S02 SQL select * from munchkin_links where active = 1 VENDORERRORCODE 208 DATASOURCE sunbelt Resources: Check the ColdFusion documentation http://www.macromedia.com/go/proddoc_getdoc to verify that you are using the correct syntax. Search the Knowledge Base http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ to find a solution to your problem. Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Remote Address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Referrer http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/MOTD/401/?license=XXX version=3.1.3121.0 Date/Time 10-May-10 09:25 AM From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 6:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: And yes, we do test each definition that go out. The problem with this one was that the loop condition kicks in on a file of a certain size that is not in our test bed. Would it be feasible to build some kind of governor into the scan-engine, such that if a scan on a single file takes more than a given amount of CPU time, the scan is assumed to have gone haywire, and will be throttled or killed? With suitable administrator alerts, of course. -- Ben . . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
African or European? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:26, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
So, I'm really late on this... On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:36, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: An African or European Swallow? From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
802.11sw -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What's the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com%0b wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Whatever you buy, make sure it will run DD-WRT (or Tomato). -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. :-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
I've used many Netgear wireless routers with no problems. Of course, YMMV. Sean Rector, MCSE From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J Virginia Opera's 35th Anniversary Season ends with America's favorite, The Gershwins' Porgy and BessSM 2010-2011 subscriptions are on sale now! Featuring: Rigoletto | Cos? Fan Tutte | The Valkyrie | Madama Butterfly Visit us online at www.VaOpera.org or call 1-866-OPERA-VA The vision of Virginia Opera is to enrich lives through the powerful integration of music, voice and human drama. This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). Unless otherwise specified, persons unnamed as recipients may not read, distribute, copy or alter this e-mail. Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail belong to the author and may not necessarily represent those of Virginia Opera. Although precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present, Virginia Opera cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of this e-mail or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: WYSIWYG web site editors
I can't recommend this, except it was free. I found it for some users in our office and they are able to use it. I have not spent more than three minutes using it and it worked for what I wanted. But it is one option. http://www.nvu.com/ -Original Message- From: Laurence Childs [mailto:laurence.chi...@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WYSIWYG web site editors Hi All A friend of mine runs a small truck racing team and has a website He wants to be able to put up photos/reviews of recent events etc. and has no web editing skills Does anybody know of any good and free WYSIWYG web editors? Thanks Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
IP over avian carrier? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:22, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: 802.11sw -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Wireless IP over CP. -sc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers IP over avian carrier? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:22, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: 802.11sw -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
WRT54GS2 is supported by DD-WRT. However, I knew my wife would be upset (she was) about how long it was taking, so I just left the factory firmware on there and set it up as secure as I could. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Whatever you buy, make sure it will run DD-WRT (or Tomato). -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Wireless Routers
Déjà vu! On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: IP over avian carrier? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:22, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: 802.11sw -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; What’s the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Time to update firmware on the wife. -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers WRT54GS2 is supported by DD-WRT. However, I knew my wife would be upset (she was) about how long it was taking, so I just left the factory firmware on there and set it up as secure as I could. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Whatever you buy, make sure it will run DD-WRT (or Tomato). -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. :-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f
On 10 May 2010 at 9:31, Oliver Marshall wrote: Hi chaps,. Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate chkdsk c: /f remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to tell it to run on the next reboot. Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a chkdsk c: /f? CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm hoping we can edit this directly. Olly After a little Googling for force chkdsk next reboot, I found this MSKB: CHKNTFS.EXE: What You Can Use It For http://support.microsoft.com/kb/160963 Reading this, I found that running chkdsk C: /f/r and answering YES changes the contents of this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\Session Manager I dumped this key then ran chkdsk C: /f/r, answering YES, and here's what I got: Before: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager] BootExecute=hex(7):61,00,75,00,74,00,6f,00,63,00,68,00,65,00,63,00,6b,00,20,\ 00,61,00,75,00,74,00,6f,00,63,00,68,00,6b,00,20,00,2a,00,00,00,00,00 which resolves to autocheck autochk * After: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager] BootExecute=hex(7):61,00,75,00,74,00,6f,00,63,00,68,00,65,00,63,00,6b,00,20,\ 00,61,00,75,00,74,00,6f,00,63,00,68,00,6b,00,20,00,2f,00,72,00,20,00,5c,00,\ 3f,00,3f,00,5c,00,43,00,3a,00,00,00,61,00,75,00,74,00,6f,00,63,00,68,00,65,\ 00,63,00,6b,00,20,00,61,00,75,00,74,00,6f,00,63,00,68,00,6b,00,20,00,2a,00,\ 00,00,00,00 which resolves to autocheck autochk /r \??\C: autocheck autochk * I created both ChkdskON.reg and ChkdskOFF.reg from these keys, and they work to toggle the BootExecute key. I imagine you could write some VBS which would insert this registry key remotely. If you do, please share! Angus PS I also found a batch file that might help. The lines starting with reg ADD and ending with /f are actually one long line: = Included Stuff Follows = @echo off chkdsk.exe c: if ERRORLEVEL 2 goto ADD_CHECK echo. echo The drive is okay this time. goto end :ADD_CHECK reg ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager /v BootExecute /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d autocheck autochk /p \??\C:\0autocheck autochk * /f echo. echo The drive has problems and chkdsk will run next boot :end = Included Stuff Ends = Seen here: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3790839.php -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
BB Email Delays
Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Yeah, well. you know the old saying: If mama ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy! J I learned a long time ago to try and keep peace in the household. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Time to update firmware on the wife. -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers WRT54GS2 is supported by DD-WRT. However, I knew my wife would be upset (she was) about how long it was taking, so I just left the factory firmware on there and set it up as secure as I could. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Whatever you buy, make sure it will run DD-WRT (or Tomato). -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless Routers This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
PPPoPidgeon Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers IP over avian carrier? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:22, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: 802.11sw -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Would that be an African swallow or a European swallow? -- richard, from an autonomous collective Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote on 05/10/2010 09:26:05 AM: Another silly question; Whats the airspeed velocity of an un-laden swallow? Shook From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers Silly question, but did you try resetting the original one back to factory specs? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a clients site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short if I ever have a job where I cant get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, Im not even going to spend time on it, Ill just tell the client Im going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought Id pass this along for anyone whos looking for a new wireless router. J [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: BB Email Delays
Are you running a/v or anti-SPAM software on your Exchange box? When we had a very similar issue, it ended up being related to that. At first, we changed settings in the anti-SPAM software (turned off deep scan, IIRC), that seemed to fix it for a short time. When the issue reappeared, we ended up downgrading the a/v software to a prior version. Been running fine ever since. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB Email Delays Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: running out of disk space on WSUS drive
That checkbox is checked... Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu 5/7/2010 1:55 PM Also, check to see if you're getting delta updates under Options, update files and languages, download express installation files. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: running out of disk space on WSUS drive Found it... thanks, that freed up 9GB. Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu 5/6/2010 2:59 PM Yes. In 3.0 there is a server cleanup wizard in the management console. -- Sent using BlackBerry - Original Message - From: Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu May 06 17:55:12 2010 Subject: running out of disk space on WSUS drive Is it possible to delete older updates, in order to conserve space? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
I've had issues with Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys/Cisco consumer routers. It seems most are only good for about 18-24 months and then need to be replaced. I do like the Linksys GUI best but that's probably just because I'm more familiar with it. But for $50, it's not worth the time to mess with them if a simple reset doesn't allow you to connect. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client’s site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short – if I ever have a job where I can’t get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I’m not even going to spend time on it, I’ll just tell the client I’m going to go buy a different router that **will** work and get another Linksys. Just thought I’d pass this along for anyone who’s looking for a new wireless router. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image002.jpgimage001.jpg
Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... For a general system scan, that sounds like a good idea. But for on-access scans (real time, auto protect, whatever you call it), I think you'd want the system to run it as fast as possible. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: BB Email Delays
No Exchange-specific a/v on the BE server; VIPRE covers the rest of the server's file system with exclusions for Exchange. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: Are you running a/v or anti-SPAM software on your Exchange box? When we had a very similar issue, it ended up being related to that. At first, we changed settings in the anti-SPAM software (turned off deep scan, IIRC), that seemed to fix it for a short time. When the issue reappeared, we ended up downgrading the a/v software to a prior version. Been running fine ever since. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB Email Delays Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
But doesn't that beg the question; should an AV app EVER require 75% of a machines resources for ANYTHING? *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Or something that ensures that no more than 75% of remaining CPU will ever be consumed by the AV app and its processes... For a general system scan, that sounds like a good idea. But for on-access scans (real time, auto protect, whatever you call it), I think you'd want the system to run it as fast as possible. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wireless Routers
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote: As to the channel in use, 1,6 11 are the recommended channels for all wifi .. That's because they are the only three channels which allow for three channels with no overlap. Table here: http://www.moonblinkwifi.com/2point4freq.cfm I've been using 9 since that one ie rarely ever being switched to or being used at all. 9 overlaps with 6 and 11. That spectrum is being used, even if the channel numbers are not being chosen. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: BB Email Delays
Lucky you! :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BB Email Delays No Exchange-specific a/v on the BE server; VIPRE covers the rest of the server's file system with exclusions for Exchange. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: Are you running a/v or anti-SPAM software on your Exchange box? When we had a very similar issue, it ended up being related to that. At first, we changed settings in the anti-SPAM software (turned off deep scan, IIRC), that seemed to fix it for a short time. When the issue reappeared, we ended up downgrading the a/v software to a prior version. Been running fine ever since. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB Email Delays Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org wrote: But doesn't that beg the question; should an AV app EVER require 75% of a machines resources for ANYTHING? Software that needs resources will use as many of them as it can. Using less of them but leaving the rest of the system idle is pointless. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Yeah. I agree with you there. not to mention that they are coming out with more powerful routers, with newer technology every 18-24 months, so it's almost like it's planned obsolescence anyway. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers I've had issues with Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys/Cisco consumer routers. It seems most are only good for about 18-24 months and then need to be replaced. I do like the Linksys GUI best but that's probably just because I'm more familiar with it. But for $50, it's not worth the time to mess with them if a simple reset doesn't allow you to connect. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: Wireless Routers
Buy factory refurbs. They've already been fixed.. J Seriously, I'm running DD-WRT on several Netgear refurbs, couldn't be happier. This particular model of Netgear had a history of PS problems but the refurbs came with the 'fixed' PS. Regarding troubleshooting, a factory reset (using the pushbutton) followed by firmware upgrade should be attempted before tossing them in the trash. Carl From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers I've had issues with Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys/Cisco consumer routers. It seems most are only good for about 18-24 months and then need to be replaced. I do like the Linksys GUI best but that's probably just because I'm more familiar with it. But for $50, it's not worth the time to mess with them if a simple reset doesn't allow you to connect. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Wireless Routers
Yeah. in this case I'd been messing with it for a couple hours, trying to get everything to connect and when he said he'd had problems connecting to the internet wirelessly on his laptop that morning, that was the final straw. In the future, I'm not going to take as much time to reach that decision. If I have any problems connecting to it, I'll recommend a new router. The customer told me that the Netgear had cost over $100 brand new. 'Course part of that was probably Geek Squad setting it up. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless Routers Buy factory refurbs. They've already been fixed.. J Seriously, I'm running DD-WRT on several Netgear refurbs, couldn't be happier. This particular model of Netgear had a history of PS problems but the refurbs came with the 'fixed' PS. Regarding troubleshooting, a factory reset (using the pushbutton) followed by firmware upgrade should be attempted before tossing them in the trash. Carl From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless Routers I've had issues with Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys/Cisco consumer routers. It seems most are only good for about 18-24 months and then need to be replaced. I do like the Linksys GUI best but that's probably just because I'm more familiar with it. But for $50, it's not worth the time to mess with them if a simple reset doesn't allow you to connect. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: This weekend, I spent about 4 hours working at a client's site (side job) trying to get their desktop to link up to their existing wireless router (Netgear.) I never succeeded and I was also unable to get my Dell laptop to talk to their wireless router. After fussing with it for over 2 hours, I went to Walmart and bought a WRT54GS2 Linksys wireless (same exact model I have at home) and hooked it up. Instant success. Long story short - if I ever have a job where I can't get the wireless to connect, and the user has a Netgear wireless router, I'm not even going to spend time on it, I'll just tell the client I'm going to go buy a different router that *will* work and get another Linksys. Just thought I'd pass this along for anyone who's looking for a new wireless router. J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: BB Email Delays
Assuming this BES and BE server are separated by a WAN link, you may be running into a common problem with the BES product. RIM usually recommends that the BES is as close to the mailbox as possible. The latency between the BES and the mailbox can prevent the UDP messages from reaching the BES messaging agent in a timely manner so mail isn't picked up and delivered to the handset in real time. The 20 minute delay is the manual mailbox reconciliation process that the BES runs to catch any mail that is missed. See this link in the RIM KB for an explanation of latency impact - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=KB14139sliceId=SAL_PublicdialogID=53728817stateId=0%200%2027577931 and this one for debugging steps - http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/7979/1181821/278286/745137/Capacity_Planning_and_Performance_Tuning_for_Environments_Using_the_BlackBerry_Enterprise_Solution.pdf?nodeid=973626 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: BB Email Delays
The BES and BE servers are connected over a WAN link. What confuses us, though, is this delay just started about 10 days ago. Prior to that the messages would sometimes hit my BB a second or two before they'd appear in my Outlook folders. I know, I know... what changed? That's what I'm trying to determine... Perhaps a BE server reboot is in order. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Brian Hintz bhi...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming this BES and BE server are separated by a WAN link, you may be running into a common problem with the BES product. RIM usually recommends that the BES is as close to the mailbox as possible. The latency between the BES and the mailbox can prevent the UDP messages from reaching the BES messaging agent in a timely manner so mail isn't picked up and delivered to the handset in real time. The 20 minute delay is the manual mailbox reconciliation process that the BES runs to catch any mail that is missed. See this link in the RIM KB for an explanation of latency impact - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=KB14139sliceId=SAL_PublicdialogID=53728817stateId=0%200%2027577931 and this one for debugging steps - http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/7979/1181821/278286/745137/Capacity_Planning_and_Performance_Tuning_for_Environments_Using_the_BlackBerry_Enterprise_Solution.pdf?nodeid=973626 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
Capping the usage at 80-90% of available processing power, however, is not as useless. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org wrote: But doesn't that beg the question; should an AV app EVER require 75% of a machines resources for ANYTHING? Software that needs resources will use as many of them as it can. Using less of them but leaving the rest of the system idle is pointless. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: BB Email Delays
Or perhaps WAN utilization changed. Do you have stats on that you can refer to? On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:33, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: The BES and BE servers are connected over a WAN link. What confuses us, though, is this delay just started about 10 days ago. Prior to that the messages would sometimes hit my BB a second or two before they'd appear in my Outlook folders. I know, I know... what changed? That's what I'm trying to determine... Perhaps a BE server reboot is in order. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Brian Hintz bhi...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming this BES and BE server are separated by a WAN link, you may be running into a common problem with the BES product. RIM usually recommends that the BES is as close to the mailbox as possible. The latency between the BES and the mailbox can prevent the UDP messages from reaching the BES messaging agent in a timely manner so mail isn't picked up and delivered to the handset in real time. The 20 minute delay is the manual mailbox reconciliation process that the BES runs to catch any mail that is missed. See this link in the RIM KB for an explanation of latency impact - http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=KB14139sliceId=SAL_PublicdialogID=53728817stateId=0%200%2027577931 and this one for debugging steps - http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/7979/1181821/278286/745137/Capacity_Planning_and_Performance_Tuning_for_Environments_Using_the_BlackBerry_Enterprise_Solution.pdf?nodeid=973626 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Our BES server is located in the parent office where the Exchange 2003 FE server resides and the Exchange BE server is in our local office. For the past week or so BB messages are arriving about 10-20 minutes behind the time the messages hit the users's mailboxes on our BE server, for both ATT and Verizon clients. Our parent office indicates no problem for their users. Does this sound like a FE, BE, or BES issue? Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Adding New 2003 DC, DNS, WINs, DHCP Server
Good morning/afternoon, Windows 2003 AD I've been tasked with replacing one of our DCs with new hardware. This DC also services WINs, DNS, DHCP. I'm trying to determine the best order of operations. I thought I came across some information that recommended the installation/configuration of WINs and DHCP services prior to promoting the machine to a domain controller. Can someone confirm that? Also, with specific regards to WINs: Would it be preferable to install WINs and set it up as a push/pull partner or simply migrate the WINs database from the old server to the new. One benefit to adding it as a push/pull partner is that I will be able to modify all of the clients that are currently configured to reference the old server at my own pace. If I migrate the database, I'm worried that I'll need to update all of the clients a lot sooner or risk wierd issue related to netbios. All clients are configured with a secondary WINs server reference but I concerned about the reliability of that config if the primary WINs server was unavailable for an extended period of time. I guess I'm just looking for opinions based on personal experiences. Thanks in advance. - Sean ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: WYSIWYG web site editors
This is a updated renamed version of Nvu, with some bug fixs, still free :-). Komposer at http://www.kompozer.net/download.php Joe Morlino Islands Computer Services Beaufort, SC -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WYSIWYG web site editors I can't recommend this, except it was free. I found it for some users in our office and they are able to use it. I have not spent more than three minutes using it and it worked for what I wanted. But it is one option. http://www.nvu.com/ -Original Message- From: Laurence Childs [mailto:laurence.chi...@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WYSIWYG web site editors Hi All A friend of mine runs a small truck racing team and has a website He wants to be able to put up photos/reviews of recent events etc. and has no web editing skills Does anybody know of any good and free WYSIWYG web editors? Thanks Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: odd computer issues: users claims pc not shutdown, after shutting it down from prior workday or weekend
widnows xp sp3, with 3.5 gigs of ram. Office 2007 latest os. Sunbelt vipre 4.0 on a 2003 r2 domain controlelr. Using active directory. Connected to a dell switch. well connect to a wall jack, to a dell switch. Using rv042 for dhcp and firewall and routing , and of course the DC windows 2003 r2 is doing dns. her pc has a 10/100/1000 it a dell workstation. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:56 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Vast amount of things could cause this. What OS is it on? Might help narrow down the possible causes. On 10 May 2010 10:54, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: odd computer issues: users claims pc not shutdown, after shutting it down from prior workday or weekend User is on domain And when she arrives next morning Her pc still shutting down, forcing her to reboot Could it be a issue with av, networking not sure I went checked pc and it shutdown normally. -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Software that needs resources will use as many of them as it can. Using less of them but leaving the rest of the system idle is pointless. Capping the usage at 80-90% of available processing power, however, is not as useless. If the system has no other use for a resource, why not put it to work? What benefit is there to putting the system in an idle loop for 10-20% of wall clock time? Conversely, if you're trying to get other work done, having only 10-20% of system resources available to you likely isn't going to be enough. I think what you're really looking for is lower priority. If the system has nothing else to do, might as well use it to make the AV get done quicker. But if the system has anything else to do, put resources towards that, and make the AV wait. Yah? (Again, this is for the full system scan scenario. On-access scanning has different parameters.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~