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portable antimalware products
by David Mehler 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

Hello, I need recommendations for portable apps, apps that run from thumb drives, for antimalware work. I've got a Win7 Home Premium 64 bit box that I'm probably going to be paying a visit to either tomorrow or next weekend that has got something on it that I'm not sure what. I've heard various things it started out as a worm, then a virus called win32.blaster, then a rootkit/backdoor, bottomline I'm getting just guesswork from it's owner until I see it, I'm also concerned about two toolbars delio toolbar and something called vtoolbar updater 10.2 which added in a services entry, anyone know of either of these? I don't trust any AV running on the box, particularly Norton 360, and I don't think that's all there is. Does anyone utilize any good general rootkit/worm/Antivirus that goes from a thumb drive? I'm going to be running this from a drive using NVDA also on the same drive. Thanks. Dave.

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DHCP not working using ICS
by Ben Mustill-Rose 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hi all, I've been banging my metaphorical head against my metaphorical desk for a while about this one so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. The situation: 3G modem connected to a computer, connection needs to be shared to its lan connection for some other clients. Should just be a straight forward ICS setup - I've done it before; its not that hard. ICS gets enabled and the lan adaptor that its being shared with gets assigned a static ip, but dhcp doesn't work. Even when I run my own dhcp server on the lan adaptor none of the clients get ip's so I'm assuming the connections aren't being shared at all. The 3G modem actually shows up as a dialup connection and after some reading, it turns out that this sort of thing happens quite often when trying to share something that windows thinks is dialup, although nobody has posted a solution. Tried to bridge the connections, but part of the cryteria for enabling bridging is that both connections have to be "high speed" and since the modem shows up as dialup, windows won't let me enable it. Thats all I've tried; does anyone have any other suggestions about how I can do this? Any input what so ever would be great. Cheers, Ben.

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DHCP not working using ICS
by Ben Mustill-Rose 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Hi all, I've been banging my metaphorical head against my metaphorical desk for a while about this one so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. The situation: 3G modem connected to a computer, connection needs to be shared to its lan connection for some other clients. Should just be a straight forward ICS setup - I've done it before; its not that hard. ICS gets enabled and the lan adaptor that its being shared with gets assigned a static ip, but dhcp doesn't work. Even when I run my own dhcp server on the lan adaptor none of the clients get ip's so I'm assuming the connections aren't being shared at all. The 3G modem actually shows up as a dialup connection and after some reading, it turns out that this sort of thing happens quite often when trying to share something that windows thinks is dialup, although nobody has posted a solution. Tried to bridge the connections, but part of the cryteria for enabling bridging is that both connections have to be "high speed" and since the modem shows up as dialup, windows won't let me enable it. Thats all I've tried; does anyone have any other suggestions about how I can do this? Any input what so ever would be great. Cheers, Ben.

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System Center 2012 has gone RTM
by Ryan Shugart 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hi all: Microsoft released the System Center 2012 family of products to manufacturing today. Those of you with volume license agreements can download them now, the rest of you will be able to get them on April 17TH. I downloaded SCCM 2012 today and got it going in a test environment. Unfortunately accessibility hasn't changed any since the RC. Window-Eyes didn't read any of the installation dialogs, Narrator read some of them, enough that I could get things going. The UI itself is a mess. Many controls have no field labels, the new ribbon doesn't appear to work, and its just complex. I'll state that we're at the stage where to a point I don't know what's an accessibility issue, what's a screen reader issue and what's a training issue, (Ryan not knowing the right commands to navigate the UI.) I think it's a safe thing to say that System Center 2012 is not a good example of Microsoft's commitment to accessibility, however. I've contacted our Microsoft TAM and let him know this is a problem, also that there is no way we will be implementing this in our company until I have a work around. How much good that will do I don't know, but we pay a lot for said TAM so time to see how far this will go. I encourage those of you planning to implement this to contact your TAMs as well, hopefully someone in Microsoft will listen to us. Ryan

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System Center 2012 has gone RTM
by Ryan Shugart 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hi all: Microsoft released the System Center 2012 family of products to manufacturing today. Those of you with volume license agreements can download them now, the rest of you will be able to get them on April 17TH. I downloaded SCCM 2012 today and got it going in a test environment. Unfortunately accessibility hasn't changed any since the RC. Window-Eyes didn't read any of the installation dialogs, Narrator read some of them, enough that I could get things going. The UI itself is a mess. Many controls have no field labels, the new ribbon doesn't appear to work, and its just complex. I'll state that we're at the stage where to a point I don't know what's an accessibility issue, what's a screen reader issue and what's a training issue, (Ryan not knowing the right commands to navigate the UI.) I think it's a safe thing to say that System Center 2012 is not a good example of Microsoft's commitment to accessibility, however. I've contacted our Microsoft TAM and let him know this is a problem, also that there is no way we will be implementing this in our company until I have a work around. How much good that will do I don't know, but we pay a lot for said TAM so time to see how far this will go. I encourage those of you planning to implement this to contact your TAMs as well, hopefully someone in Microsoft will listen to us. Ryan

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Eco data recovery
by David Mehler 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hello, Has anyone used Eco Data Recovery Services in Florida USA to recover raid or single hard drive data? If so, what were your impressions pro conn and would you use them again? Thanks. Dave.

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Eco data recovery
by David Mehler 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hello, Has anyone used Eco Data Recovery Services in Florida USA to recover raid or single hard drive data? If so, what were your impressions pro conn and would you use them again? Thanks. Dave.

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testing an external drive
by David Mehler 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hello, I know about spinrite, but I didn't think that worked on usb-attached external drives. I've got a terabyte external drive connected by usb, it's an enclosure, but not removable, i.e. the drive came in it and it's sealed not meant to be replaced. This enclosure took a spill and hit a carpeted ground apartment say maybe four feet and it didn't show up for a while. I recycled it, disconnected and reconnected everything, and it shows up but it took what looks like casing damage and I'm hoping it didn't take internal damage, it's not making any noises and it is showing up again, I'd like to know what others use to test their external drives? Also on the subject, is anyone using the network-attached terabyte or greater drive? Which one can be recommended? Thanks. Dave.

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System loosing date
by David Mehler 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hello, I'm dealing with a rather perplexing problem, at least I do when I get over to the box. An xp home machine keeps loosing it's date. It was doing some other stuff, like loosing it's boot order and atempting to network boot, so the CMOS battery was replaced, and that problem went away that is the problem of the network booting. Now in windows (not the system setup it knows it's date), sometimes it thinks it's date is like I just checked it Monday December 31 2001, 11:15 p.m. when the time was actually 8:15 p.m. or there abouts. Other times I've been told it thinks it's date is October 28 2065, I've never heard of a machine jumping forward in this instance. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate them. Thanks. Dave.

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terminal services accessibility
by Juliano Cesar Ribeiro 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Good morning, my name is Julian, I'm from Brazil. work in the area of ??management configuraçõ, and gosria the following information: I use terminal services to access the rowing máq cl, to perform some tasks. use NVDA such as screen reader. Audio tab, checked for audio work on the local computer. However, the warning text before logon uzer, always need someone to help me enxe. not existnhum feature, which gives access to terminal services on this screen? how do you do? not to need someone to help you see. for example, want access logon screen, using a screen reader, in remot computer. More a computer not installed a screen reader. thanks

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