Re: How to maintain Adobe and Java updates

I may be out of the level that you folks operate at. I am a small fry and I have a few sites with less then 50 users. I implemented Google Chrome browser. This allowed me to ditch flash, java, and reader and just use Chrome for all that. Where Google handles the updates itself it gives me less

Re: MS Updates Issues?

How long will it take before we get someone to wake up and kick these users that can't properly configure OOO messages? Hmmm? Computerz r triky hard! On 7/11/2012 12:17 PM, Tom Miller wrote: I am currently out of the office. I will return on Wednesday July 18th. If you require immediate

Re: ESET Nod32 - Comments?

In order asked: OK Good Good Had a couple issues with updates, what a year ago or so? It would be a good choice if we didn't have Vipre or Sophos. I won't use Eset anymore though... JHMO, YMMV. On 6/27/2012 1:09 PM, Roger Wright wrote: I'm a long-time VIPRE user but would appreciate

Re: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC

+1 and add Tripplite... On 6/13/2012 9:51 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: I've been using CyberPower for over a year now (probably close to 2), and I'm very happy with them. Including my former employer, I purchased about 10 of them. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: OT:windows phone and outlook notes

Think you have to consider One Note or Office 365. Love my WP7. Check out I'm a WP7! by Liquid Daffodil. Great app, lots of features. I have iPhone and Droid ICS, etc and my Windows Phone is by far the best. However, there are a number of free apps on Droid that are either not available yet or

Re: SonicWall - being acquired by Dell

Thanks ASB. On 3/14/2012 9:20 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: Fortigate firewalls from Fortinet Also, Palo Alto Networks has recently released some small business / small office devices. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful

Re: SonicWall - being acquired by Dell

What I need to know is, what's the next best solution for small business security appliances similar to Sonicwall... On 3/13/2012 7:46 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: Funny, I just got three emails about this from this list. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

Yeah, I got a 5 year old generic laptop that just fell over this morning. I barely used it until this last year. I got an IBM and a Dell that are over 10 years old and they run 24/7, both of them - still... All because no one wants to pay for anything anymore, so let's show a low price tag

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

I think these are worthwhile issues to discuss since we are the ones supporting them. Let's face it - they will only become more integrated into our lives, business and otherwise. On 3/8/2012 12:57 PM, steve ens wrote: start of rant. I've been thinking about this for a while...and it bugs

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

Here, here... Still running many Win2K's It is getting to the point of 'must upgrade' though. On 3/5/2012 2:36 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: 2000 Not good? That's news to me. 2000 rocked. It was lean, it was fast, it added USB support NT didn't have. It was also the first OS (server) with AD...

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

Oh hell, I had a Win7 Pro box booting in under 10 seconds... C'mon... On 3/5/2012 3:27 PM, Guyer, Donald wrote: My Win 7 SSD-based machine rivals that fairly close. I never actually timed it, but I'm guesstimating 20 and 30 - ish. Now you've got me curious... -- Regards, joeuser - Still

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

Exactly, I've already had to reset Androids iPhones and I still have no idea how to reset my Windows Phone, Why? Haven't needed too. Love when androids get virused and what-not too. I think the Xbox failure line was sarcasm, BTW... On 3/5/2012 7:21 PM, James Hill wrote: That's a bit

Re: KVM over IP

You really can't beat the quality of Avocent, but you always get what ya pay for. On 3/5/2012 5:20 PM, Sean Martin wrote: We use the TrippLites as well. I believe when we first started using them a couple of years ago they were almost half the price of the Avocent models we looked at. Mouse

Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

Yup. Had to hard reset the device too. And of course, they didn't set up the Google backup/sync. On 3/5/2012 8:13 PM, Rod Trent wrote: Never experienced an Android virus. Have you? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful

Re[2]: Antivirus Recommendations?

Hello, For me bloat is a major factor. Vipre is probably the leanest AV out there. I don't think you'd regret going with Vipre, IMHO. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

Re[2]: Windows 8 dev preview video

Hello Steven, Thanks Steve. Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 11:22:21 PM, you wrote: I don't remember that part, but it is a dev build, not even beta. I thought the part where Steve was longing for the 'bing' app and she said, 'skip it' which I thought was pretty funny. Having been involved in

Re[2]: Background Checks and Drug Test

Hello, I was going to read this thread but I will have to ask for 9.99 from everyone, to pay for an anti-virus and spam scan before I can. TIA. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re[2]: Facebook Christmas Tree app

Hello, This is twice now and I'm not sure that anyone's catching it. Excuse the pun... Friday, November 19, 2010, 4:42:03 PM, you wrote: quick better run AntiVirus 2010 to make sure I'm protected... -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a

Re[3]: Help -- Bricked PC

Hello John, Doesn't Vista make it a junker by default? Friday, June 25, 2010, 11:04:02 AM, you wrote: Exactly. I just don't want to waste a high-end PC for an AS/400 terminal. Let me put it this way. if ALL we're going to use it for is an AS/400 client, why would I want a P4 with a Gig of

Vipre not updating?

Hello, Anyone having Vipre update issues? 5968 here 3.19/7am -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Vipre not updating?

Hello, Anyone having Vipre update issues? 5968 here 3.19/7am Never mind... -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re[2]: National broadband

Hello Jgarciaitlist, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 1:31:13 PM, you wrote: What if goverment ran world of war craft servers??? Would you play? Paid for by tax payers? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile Then Tuesdays the Government would actually do work. -- Regards, joeuser - Still

Re[2]: WinPatrol for 99 cents Thursday

Hello Carol, Monday, February 1, 2010, 10:43:19 AM, you wrote: Good luck with that. Email to them bounces because their AOL mailbox is full, and they don’t answer their phone. Definitely would not encourage me to recommend them to anyone. w/e... The email is supp...@winpatrol.com I

Re[2]: * Where Do You Get Your IT News?

Hello Jon, Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:44:05 AM, you wrote: I have but only to pitch them into the trash. They are usually old news anyway. What else to read while you are on the can though? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a

Re[2]: 2010 date problems anyone?

Kerio is having an issue with 2010 and it's mail server running SpamAssassin, some details: Emails Dated 2010 are being marked as SPAM Kerio wish to make you aware of a bug that may have been affecting your email since 1st January 2010. SpamAssassin 3.2.5 used in Kerio MailServer's Spam

Re[2]: 2010 date problems anyone?

Hello Sherry, Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 1:41:32 PM, you wrote: Welll, how interesting. This list has just made me look like a brilliant admin. once again. Thanks to the person that posted about the issue with SpamAssassin, we use SA and upon investigation have observed behavior stated

List of known social networking site proxy services

Hello, Anyone aware of a list of known proxy servers for social networking sites (and other well known productivity killing sites for that matter, if possible). We seem to have users on facebook bypassing the domain blocks in place. I assume it's more proxies but I am only aware of a couple that

Re[2]: Search strangeness

Hello Richard, Friday, December 18, 2009, 2:52:35 PM, you wrote: Something to that effect, yes. Time to get out MBAM, Combofix, Superantispyware, etc. I understand ComboFix was nuking peoples drives - making them unbootable. I checked it out for myself at bleeping computer and sure enough

Re[4]: Search strangeness

Hello Richard, Friday, December 18, 2009, 5:45:47 PM, you wrote: Hi, um, Joe, Thanks for the heads up. I actually used it last week for the first time in forever and didn't have any trouble. I'm usually in the category of folks who prefers to wipe and re-build after a malware incident,

Re[2]: Vipre Competition

Hello Micheal, Friday, December 11, 2009, 8:47:50 PM, you wrote: My choice would be ESET NOD32. +1 -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re[4]: OT: Side work

Hello Mike, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:07:20 PM, you wrote: Did you know Vista defrags weekly by default? I don't set it to monthly to be aggressive, quarterly would be fine. I set it to monthly because sometimes peoples computers are off, and it doesn't hurt at all to have it set to

Re[2]: Today is the 234th Birthday of the US Marine Corp

Hello Kurt, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:06:06 PM, you wrote: No, some Marines don't die in service. The rest, for the time that they are alive, are usually referred to as former. Marines don't die without permission; I thought 'Once a Marine - Always a Marine' was the saying. --

Re[2]: OT: Side work

Hello Mike, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 12:14:51 PM, you wrote: As for the 5 minute fix you're guilty of charging for, I rarely see a computer that isn't in need of at least a good performance tune. Disable unnecessary/rouge startup items and services, schedule a monthly defrag (if XP),

Re[2]: Mail server software

+1 Kerio - good stuff: solid, stable, great company/service. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re[2]: FTP server ?

Hello Chris, Thursday, August 6, 2009, 9:49:52 AM, you wrote: We use serv-u8 and it works great. http://www.serv-u.com/ We serve up gigs of encrypted files over sftp per hour without so much as a hiccup. I would recommend downloading the demo and trying it out. +1 -- Regards, joeuser -

Re[2]: Favorite Tools

Hello Andrew, Monday, August 3, 2009, 1:07:38 PM, you wrote: HmmmI think I have to update my list which hasn't been updated in ages! * http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=Utils.TXT* I'm going to be putting this into a Wiki before year's end (hopefully) How goes it, folks? Speak

Re: Windows Defender

Hello Martin, Monday, August 3, 2009, 5:02:11 PM, you wrote: Has anyone actually seen this product defend anything? I've never seen it do anything myself so just wondering. Yeah once - when I was trying to install something better. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any'

Re[2]: AV revisited

Hello Erik, Thursday, June 18, 2009, 7:22:09 AM, you wrote: IMNSHO ... no A/V is ever gonna be perfect and catch 100%, and I think they all leapfrog one another based on various criteria ... but service behind the product, time to react in getting out critical signature updates, and quality

Re[2]: AV revisited

Hello Roger, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 1:31:33 PM, you wrote: Sunbelt Software's VIPRE for servers and clients; Ninja on the Exchange store. 1) Easy to deploy manage 2) Very cost-effective 3) The best support available (although it's not needed much) +1 --

Re[2]: www.msn.com just brought my citrix servers to a screeching hault!

Hello aci, Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 9:39:29 AM, you wrote: why would anyone want to go to MSN.com Exactly. Everyone else does so I should also... lemmings. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... ~ Finally,

Re[2]: IE8 and the add dcom storage setting

Hello Wolf, Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 7:23:43 PM, you wrote: My google-fu is strong http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/readiness/developers-new.aspx#dom Let Me Google That For You . Com http://lmgtfy.com/ -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now

Re[2]: AV Opinions

Kaspersky is nothing but trouble. It's bloated. These fast updates sometimes equal trouble also. I know a few times last year when they updated and it screwed up clients. In fact, once they updated their AV to look for updates on a beta test server and for days no one could update. When approached