Re: Need more IP addresses

2009-12-18 Thread James Rankin
I've got all my servers on DHCP these days, except for a very select few (WebSense being one that springs to mind that needed a static IP). I don't get any problems really, except for occasionally having to flush DNS records when we bring templates online for patching and they pick up a different a

Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread John Meyers
Good morning I have a laptop I need to somehow salvage ALL the deleted internet history from. IE was set to only keep for 20 days, not sure what Firefox was at. But I need to retrieve EVERYTHING I possibly can. I think the user at some point did a defrag, which is making it more difficult. I

Windows 2008 User Shares called "Documents"

2009-12-18 Thread Peter Schwarz
Hi, We just migrated a Client to Windows 2008 SBS from Windows 2003 SBS. AD is used to point home drive U: to \\servername\users\%username% Now when I look in the "users" folder I see this Behind those folders that appear as "Documents" in the list are actually users' folders. Ho

What sends broadcasts these days?

2009-12-18 Thread RM
I'll add that broadcast traffic can be curtailed if some diligence is exercised. On a modern network, what's left that sends broadcasts? Browser elections? DHCP requests? For name resolution, I think modern Windows systems only broadcast as a last resort. I'm curious to hear discussion about w

Re: OT: VLAN question

2009-12-18 Thread RichardMcClary
I don't have time to read the other replies (I'm drowning here!)... The data world is a bit different from the VoIP world. Phone traffic (let's call it things like "SIP" and "RTP") require absolutely top priority through the wires. 1. Depite the same wires, there absolutely must be a separate

RE: VLAN question

2009-12-18 Thread Mayo, Bill
Little late to the party, but figure I'll throw in my $.02 worth. As was mentioned by several, the key thing here you need to be concerned with is QOS. Putting the data and voice on separate VLANs is a best practice in my experience, but that alone isn't going to prevent breakups/dropouts/etc. I

Backup Exec issues

2009-12-18 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have BEX 12D running to backup about 1TB of user data, and about 600GB of mail data. The exchange07 cluster has the Symantec agents running on it and I have a front end server doing spam and handling mail delivery. BEX constantly whines and complains about the VSS writer status, something is

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Glen Johnson
IEHistoryView from www.nirsoft.net might give you some info from IE. I don't think it works with FF though. From: John Meyers [mailto:jrmeyer...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 7:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent Good m

RE: Need more IP addresses

2009-12-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Oh yeah... no DHCP'd servers here. -sc From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Need more IP addresses I've got all my servers on DHCP these days, except for a very select few (WebSense being one t

Re: Backup Exec issues

2009-12-18 Thread Jon Harris
Last I heard Ultrabac was still there if this is for 2003 then it was rock solid for me. I never got to try it on 2008 the office refused to update the software so I was forced to use built in backup programs for the OS. It does take a bit getting used to but I rarely had issues except during a m

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
You might be able to look at the date/time stamp on the cached objects to get that information. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urg

User Migration tool

2009-12-18 Thread Jon Harris
I am heading out to do a quick user migration and would like a bit of an assist. There is a tool built into XP for migrating a user from XP to another machine will it work with the same tool in Windows 7? Normally we blow away user profiles and create new but this is a special case and I really h

RE: User Migration tool

2009-12-18 Thread Terry Dickson
On the new windows 7 machine click on the start button and type in migwiz, it will give you what you want. You will be able to copy the software to the usb drive or network drive, it has good instructions included. From: Jon Harris [jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Fr

RE: VLAN question

2009-12-18 Thread Dennis Hoefer
+1 QOS is key, but so is the rest of your network. Keep in mind that voice and data are totally different animals, voice has no way to deal with packet loss or latency so everything in the chain needs to be in top shape. Don't know anything about Allworx but we run Shoretel VOIP over VLAN with

Re: User Migration tool

2009-12-18 Thread Jon Harris
Ah I am starting with a XP as the source though. Is that still the case? Jon On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Terry Dickson wrote: > On the new windows 7 machine click on the start button and type in > migwiz, it will give you what you want. You will be able to copy the > software to the usb

Lansweeper alternatives

2009-12-18 Thread HELP_PC
I would like to hear experiences about the product , compared to others about pricing and features, for using at several small customers sites TIA GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Offline files in Vista and Windows7

2009-12-18 Thread Davies,Matt
All, Does anyone know if there is a limit to the size of the offline file cache on vista and windows 7 ? We are trying to sync a users network drive (12GB of data) over a 30Mb/s 200ms round trip link and each time it appears not to sync all the files. Does anyone know of any way to log the ent

RE: Offline files in Vista and Windows7

2009-12-18 Thread Carl Houseman
Group policy item... Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Offline Files Carl From: Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Offline files in Vista and Windows7 All, D

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread John Meyers
Sorry but how exactly do I do that? TIA From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:48:14 -0500 You might be able to look at the date/time stamp on the cached objects

RE: What Should We Call The Next VIPRE V4? Need Your Input !

2009-12-18 Thread Bill Lambert
How bout Capital Punishment? 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 authoriz

RE: Lansweeper alternatives

2009-12-18 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
I love Lansweeper!, It's very customizable if you dabble in some SQL. The price can't be beat. The only other one I know like it it's Spiceworks From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Lansweeper alternatives I wou

Re: What Should We Call The Next VIPRE V4? Need Your Input !

2009-12-18 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Thought of something else that the next version of Vipre needs to have, a Mac client please. Didn't think of that when I filled out the survey. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Bill Lambert wrote: > How bout Capital Punishment? > > > > *Bill Lambert* > > *Concuity* > > *Phone 847-941-9206

This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread David Lum
Well, a couple hours ago http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10418270-36.html?tag=mncol;title David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread RichardMcClary
Doesn't bother me nearly so much as yesterday's BBC report that terrorists are now able to intercept the feed from drone planes to see if they are coming for them or not. Worse - the DoD has known this was a danger for some time, but decided that encrypting the transmissions was too expensive.

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
Go into the cache folder, and look at the details on the files. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: John Meyers [mailto:jrmeyer...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent Sorry but how exa

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Cayze
+1. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: This just in... Doesn't bother me nearly so much as yesterday's BBC report that terrorists are now able to intercept the feed from dron

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread David Lum
Quite true. After a couple of bombings DoD will figure it out - our country is good at fixing things once the wrong people have died. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspc

R: Lansweeper alternatives

2009-12-18 Thread HELP_PC
The price ! Isn't it a bit high (is a year subscription) if you have to use it on 4-5 small sites ? GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Inviato: venerdì 18 dicembre 2009 16.09 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Lansweeper alternati

Re: Lansweeper alternatives

2009-12-18 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 18 Dec 2009 at 10:08, Garcia-Moran, Carlos wrote: > I love Lansweeper!, It´s very customizable if you dabble in some SQL. The > price can´t be beat. The only other one I know like it it´s Spiceworks For very small LANs Lansweeper might be a no-go as it requires AD. Spiceworks just rele

Re: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 18 Dec 2009 at 8:25, Glen Johnson wrote: > IEHistoryView from www.nirsoft.net might give you some info from IE. I > don´t think it works with FF though. It doesn't, but nirsoft also offers tools called MozillaHistoryView, IECacheView, and MozillaCacheView. Sounds like the OP might need

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Rod Trent
It coincided with the Iranian army takeover of an Iraqi oil field this morning. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: This just in... Well, a couple hours ago http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10418270-3

Re: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Let's face it. Most people and enterprises simply pay lip service to information security until it's too late, or there has been a breach of some sort. The bulk of resources go into features and functionality that are non-security related. It's all about chasing revenue. Perhaps we'll learn by

On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread David Lum
http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/12/will-facebook-kill-email/ I laughed "hahah no way" at the title, but then I read this line: "I have to admit I didn't see his point until I read a headline recently indicating that 92% of global email traffic is now spam. The fact that most email is junk is

Re: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Jeff Brown
Sometimes I think the guys who know the most about security do the most damage. I have seen a couple of situations where a company would have made incremental changes to improve security, but the consultant presented a dooms-day recommendation that suggested that EVERYTHING was broke/bad/dangerous

RE: Need more IP addresses

2009-12-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
Thanks for the long and detailed info Kurt. I think I will be learning about vlans VERY soon! I do remember reading about helper addresses and will look into that further. Thanks, Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax -Original Message- From: Kurt

Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Very interesting article indeed. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, David Lum wrote: > http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/12/will-facebook-kill-email/ > > > > I laughed “hahah no way” at the title, but then I read this line: “I have > to admit I didn’t see his point until I read a headline recen

RE: Lansweeper alternatives

2009-12-18 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
You can do path scanning of any type of files (you need the location, it does take in some variables) in LS and make reports out of it, Also AD isn't 100% required you can do a batch login scan or a couple of other methods for a small office. Price wise it's either free, or at the most $1,000 w

RE: Need more IP addresses

2009-12-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
TOTALLY agree on this one. Luckily I only have 5-6 people that ever work from home. This is the President, CFO, VP, Op's manager, Sales manager and myself. The IT guy before me decided it was easier to go to each person's house and reconfigure their network rather than changing ours. When I t

RE: Need more IP addresses

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
Well, if you have a Cisco ASA, I believe there's a web-based VPN client that will allow your users to connect anywhere and then they can RDP from there. I certainly would not allow unecrypted RDP on my network! -Original Message- From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com] Sen

RE: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread Holstrom, Don
My kids are both teenagers, one in college, one in high school. My youngest goes days without checking e-mail, and he spends at least five hours on his computer each and every day. My daughter reads hers, but on her cell phone, and mostly her college e-mail account. I own my last name account on

RE: User Migration tool

2009-12-18 Thread Terry Dickson
It works just fine, except the install software for XP is already in Win7 so if you get that software from there you are fine. If they are networked it will copy directly over the network without any problems and is very good for transferring files and settings. -Original Message- Fr

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
Link? From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: This just in... It coincided with the Iranian army takeover of an Iraqi oil field this morning. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Frid

RE: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread Steven M. Caesare
That's largely my experience as well... my 14 yr old daughter is a text/IM person much more than email (she is not allowed on social networking sites). Some younger friends of mine in their late-teens & early 20's are much more likely to answer a text promptly than an email. -sc From: Holst

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread RichardMcClary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8420774.stm "Richard Stovall" wrote on 12/18/2009 10:07:52 AM: > Link? > > From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] > Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:28 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: This just in... > > It coincided with the I

Re: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580560,00.html?test=latestnews On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Richard Stovall < richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: > Link? > > > > *From:* Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] > *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2009 10:28 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin

RE: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread Rod Trent
Nah.what will kill email is Google. 80% of all spam originates from a Gmail address. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail... Very interestin

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Ben Schorr
Security is like insurance. It's one of those things people always think they have too much of, until they discover they have too little of it. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com / www.officeforlawyers.com

Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread asbzone
The bulk of my useful mail comes from these lists, LinkedIn and Facebook. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: David Lum Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:44:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On another front - social networking killing e-mail... http://blog.

RE: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks Richard and Sherry. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: This just in... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8420774.stm "Richard Stovall" wrote on 12/18/2009 10:07:5

RE: Windows 2008 User Shares called "Documents"

2009-12-18 Thread Klint Price
I am having the same issue on a windows 2003 domain. I have not had time to troubleshoot, but am interested to know if one of my Jr's made a change to the AD. Klint From: Peter Schwarz [pschw...@syndeotech.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 5:17 AM To: NT Sys

Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Ens
+1 On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > The bulk of my useful mail comes from these lists, LinkedIn and Facebook. > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > -- > *From: *David Lum > *Date: *Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:44:49 -0800 > *To: *NT System Admin Issues > *S

Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread asbzone
Yep, that too. I can catch all the folks at my church in the 14-30 age bracket by text or FB chat.Next is FB email. Lastly, regular email which they only check once or so per week. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Steven M. Caesare" Date: Fri, 1

Re: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread asbzone
Indeed. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Ben Schorr" Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:23:37 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: This just in... Security is like insurance. It's one of those things people always think they have too much of, until they d

Re: This just in...

2009-12-18 Thread asbzone
There are *some* instances of that, to be sure. But there more instances where there are 5 holes to fix, and there's only a desire to fix 1. Of course, when one of the other 4 is exploited, the question becomes "how come we didn't take care of this sooner?" IT: We have 5 issues Exec: Well, w

Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread asbzone
Not for me it doesn't. I get less gmail spam than anything else, actually. Not much live.com spam either. Most of my spam is foreign, and then hotmail is the most popular of the big mailers, and then yahoo. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Rod Tr

Fw: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Bambi . J . Saastad
Does any one know any good forensic sites or forums? TIA . . SAVE THE EARTH.. IT'S THE ONLY PLANET WITH CHOCOLATE - Forwarded by Bambi J Saastad/Seagate on 12/18/2009 10:59 AM - John Meyers

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Ben Schorr
Depending upon what this is for I'd advise you to be VERY careful. Forensics is a tricky science and if you might be going to court with this information phrases like "spoliation" and "chain of custody" are going to come into play. My colleagues who do this stuff for a living would probably tel

RE: Cisco Switch Setup

2009-12-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
Thanks Mike. Got it and using it. It is a nice tool to conveniently look at everything together. Plus it give easy access to CLI. Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax [cid:image001.jpg@01CA7FC4.67757930] From: Mike French [mailto:mike.fre...@theequitybank.co

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
Judging from what’s been written already, it’s probably too late. (If the other side has a decent lawyer, anyway.) Heck, even the ability to prove willful destruction of the browsing history is likely compromised b/c of the methods employed thus far. That doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t c

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
Sans has a good blog at https://blogs.sans.org/computer-forensics/ …Tim From: bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fw: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent Does any one know any

MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
For now anyways. It seems much snappier than before. That would be nice if it stays that way. ...Tim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread David Lum
I was waiting for my 2008 R2 download to finish before saying anything, lol David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues S

Re: MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread David W. McSpadden
snappier yes. Slow for downloads though. I think all of us hungry users are going to break it. From: Tim Evans Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MVLS site is back up For now anyways. It seems much snappier than before. That would be nice if it stays

RE: MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
while I didn't time it, my download seemed pretty quick. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MVLS site is back up snappier yes. Slow for downloads though. I think all of us hungry users are going to br

Re: MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread David W. McSpadden
mine was at 3kb/sec earlier this morning where adobe downloads was at 176MB/sec From: Tim Evans Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MVLS site is back up while I didn't time it, my download seemed pretty quick. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:da

Firefox

2009-12-18 Thread David Lum
Does anyone know how to force Firefox Autoupdate to be on? I found an old (2007) article about deploying Firefox to the enterprise, but it's not quite what I was looking for. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, pow

TIP: A simple screen sharing solution

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Cayze
This is a common question on this list, so I though I would share: http://lifehacker.com/5428451/logmein-express-makes-screensharing-simple ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2 Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29 Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSIT

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-12-18 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE I've had good luck with Mandiant Web Historian http://www.mandiant.com From: John Meyers [mailto:jrmeyer...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 7:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent

Re: Firefox

2009-12-18 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 18 Dec 2009 at 10:45, David Lum wrote: > Does anyone know how to force Firefox Autoupdate to be on? I found an old > (2007) article about deploying Firefox to the enterprise, but it´s not quite > what I was looking for. It's on by default, but if your users aren't local administrators it

RE: MVLS site is back up

2009-12-18 Thread Bob Fronk
Time to download every ISO before it goes offline again. From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MVLS site is back up For now anyways. It seems much snappier than before. That would be nice if it stays that way. .

Re: A simple screen sharing solution

2009-12-18 Thread James Kerr
Its a lot like team viewer. - Original Message - From: Sam Cayze To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:58 PM Subject: TIP: A simple screen sharing solution This is a common question on this list, so I though I would share: http://lifehacker.com/54

Re: Firefox

2009-12-18 Thread Matthew W. Ross
While I have not tried this, I have heard (perhaps from this list?) that if the user has write permission to the Firefox directory (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox), then the user will still get the autoupdate functionality, with or without admin rights. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District

connectivity issue using name vs ip

2009-12-18 Thread Greg Olson
All, I have an issue that came up after we moved our qa lab to a different office that I could use some advice on. A quick overview: Our Qa lab is on its own domain with a trust relationship to our corp domain. I have a Windows clustered file share on our qa network called "incoming" that we c

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-12-18 Thread Ziots, Edward
Just food for thought, No offense the minute you scanned the box with a 3rd party utility and changed a timestamp or a hash of the value, the chain of evidence is broken, and what you find or don't find will probably be inadmissible in a court of law, because its heresay evidence, and the evid

RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
When you say connect via the ip address, do you mean that \\ip\incoming is successful? One thing to check is whether the "TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper" service running on the machine which you're trying to connect from? -Original Message- From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] Sent:

Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
One of my users is unable to get to any search engine. I tried loading FireFox on there as well as IE and in both cases the browser times out before loading any search site. I can get to the front page of Yahoo, but when I attempt to search for something, it gives me a timeout error. PC is a Dell O

RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

2009-12-18 Thread Greg Olson
Correct it works fine via \\ip\incoming. I'll go check the Netbios helper. Thanks, -G -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs i

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Joe Tinney
Have you checked the HOSTS file? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Search strangeness One of my users is unable to get to any search engine. I tried loading FireFox on there as well as IE and

Re: What Should We Call The Next VIPRE V4? Need Your Input !

2009-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Something simple and subtle - Quatrain, perhaps... On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:27, Stu Sjouwerman wrote: > Hi Guys, > > > > We need your input on this new product name. It’s a 30-second survey. > > > > Thanks so much for taking the time, we really appreciate your input! > > > > http://www.surveymo

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
Nope John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Search strangeness Have you checked the HOSTS file? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, Decem

Re: User Migration tool

2009-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
http://laplink.com/pcmover On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 06:01, Jon Harris wrote: > I am heading out to do a quick user migration and would like a bit of an > assist.  There is a tool built into XP for migrating a user from XP to > another machine will it work with the same tool in Windows 7?  Normally

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
Dang! That's what it was! Any idea how that got there? Do you think it was some sort of malware that put the hosts file on there to redirect to another site and it was being blocked by the antivirus? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Friday, December

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
Something to that effect, yes. Time to get out MBAM, Combofix, Superantispyware, etc. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Search strangeness Dang! That’s what it was! Any idea how that go

Re: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Roger Wright
Exactly. Roger Wright ___ On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Dang! That’s what it was! Any idea how that got there? Do you think it > was some sort of malware that put the hosts file on there to redirect to > another site and it was being blocked by the antivirus? > > > >

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Jacob
Better yet.. start – run – cmd – format c: ;-) From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Search strangeness Something to that effect, yes. Time to get out MBAM, Combofix, Sup

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Free, Bob
fdisk From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Search strangeness Something to that effect, yes. Time to get out MBAM, Combofix, Superantispyware, etc. From: John Aldrich [mailto:j

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
A valid option, certainly. From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Search strangeness Better yet.. start – run – cmd – format c: ;-) From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchda

RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

2009-12-18 Thread Greg Olson
The helper service is on. I'm wondering if something didn’t change in the firewall to break name resolution. Time to pull out the sniffer. -Original Message- From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
I’m reasonably certain there is no *active* malware on that PC. That being said, there certainly could be traces left over from an old malware infestation. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:56 PM To: NT

RE: Windows 2008 R2 Question

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I believe that Vista SP2 was also Windows Server 2008 SP2, there was no Server 2008 SP1 as it was actually at SP1 when it released. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will in fact share SPs as they are the same base kernel. Tim -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.

RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Stovall
Looks like I picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue. How are your DNS servers configured to resolve hosts in the trusted domain? Can you do an nslookup against the default nameservers in the production domain? I know you said that you could ping, so it seems like name resolution probably isn

Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...

2009-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:44, David Lum wrote: > http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/12/will-facebook-kill-email/ > > I laughed “hahah  no way” at the title, but then I read this line: “I have > to admit I didn’t see his point until I read a headline recently indicating > that 92% of global email

RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

2009-12-18 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
I would say the QA server name is not in the production domain's DNS. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip Looks like I picke

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-12-18 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE A CISSP response if I ever heard one J From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED) Just food

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-12-18 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yeah guilty as charged... 2 months till the exam.. Z From: Kent, Larry CTR USA [mailto:larry.k...@us.army.mil] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Ca

RE: Is IFMEMBER still OK to use on a modern network?

2009-12-18 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
One thing I've run into with targeting to be aware of, and I saw also posted to an MS forum, is that they don't like group nesting. Haven't seen anything official, but we had to change a few things because of it. Basically "is a member of" means a direct member of that group, not a member of a

RE: What Should We Call The Next VIPRE V4? Need Your Input !

2009-12-18 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Yeah, that is actually in the works. Should be first half next year ! Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009

Remote installation of snmp in windows

2009-12-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hey guys, I am trying to use psexec to run a sysocmgr script to install snmp on some windows machines I don't have console access to. Anyone know if this should work, or otherwise how I can do it remotely? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Retrieving deleted IE and Firefox history Urgent (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-12-18 Thread mse...@ont.com
He is absolutely correct. You must image and work from copy and do proper forensic analysis. Otherwise chain of custody is broken and evidence is inadmissable. Forensic professionals also use tools like Encase. >From CISSP Original Message: - From: Kent, Larry CTR USA larry.k...@u

Re: Firefox

2009-12-18 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 18 Dec 2009 at 11:56, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > While I have not tried this, I have heard (perhaps from this list?) that if > the user has write permission to the Firefox directory (C:\Program > Files\Mozilla Firefox), then the user will still get the autoupdate > functionality, with or without

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