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Altiris Business Unit says all is good with Symantec

Posted to an email list today, an Altiris employee talks about their perception of support since Symantec acquired the systems management company. ============= Well I work for the Symantec Altiris Business Unit in the enterprise support group. So here's what I would say about Symantec support: The...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 01-18-2008
Filed under: Security, Software, Systems Management, Industry News
Haute Secure installed -- it blocks Google and Blogger

Despite the annoyance of having to reboot after installing Haute Secure (at least the installation apologized for having to reboot — seriously, it did) it seems to work pretty well. Upon reboot and jumping straight out the Internet, I hit a blog site. Haute Secure blocked some content: one for...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 08-02-2007
Filed under: Security, Software
Slow sites in IE? Check the Phishing filter

I’ve had an issue with slow access to our mailing list server software for a while. I don’t remember when it started, but it has been excruciatingly slow to access. So, if there were problems with someone’s account on the mailing lists, or management needed to be performed on the delivery...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-12-2007
Filed under: Internet, Security, Software
Uninstalled Norton Internet Security today

As I posted before, my new laptop came with Norton Internet Security pre-installed with a 60 day trial period. I decided to go ahead and purchase a full license. I did that a week or so ago and just today I got around to trying to apply the new license. Well — to apply the purchased license you...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 03-10-2007
Filed under: Security, Software, Windows
Uninstalling Live OneCare on Windows Vista

If you are having trouble uninstalling Windows Live OneCare from a computer (as I did) there’s a separate Windows Live OneCare uninstall program which should do the trick. Here’s the URL for download: the Windows Live OneCare uninstall program

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 01-16-2007
Filed under: Security, Software, Windows
Dang Google

So, I see that there’s a security issue with WinZip 10 today. I drop out to the WinZip site, download the update, and start the installation. During the installation of the latest revision of WinZip 10, I’m confronted with the following screen (and, of course, the checkboxes were auto-selected...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-15-2006
Filed under: Internet, Patch Management, Security, Software
Sent my first Spam report to Microsoft tonight

Are you using this? Microsoft Junk E-mail Reporting Tool version 1.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook I installed it and sent my first email report today. Pretty neat, but it actually sends the email to: 'abuse@frontbridge.com' If you try to resolve frontbridge.com in a web browser, it goes here: http:/...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-27-2006
Filed under: Messaging, Security, Software
Day something or another: Taking the Windows Live OneCare Challenge

I really, really wanted to hate Windows Live OneCare . I really wanted to think that those companies that have been around the security industry, for what seems like eons (in Internet years), would be better and more comprehensive. This morning my computer woke to tell me that I had some outstanding...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-08-2006
Filed under: Security, Software, Windows Live OneCare
Finally -- someone is protecting our parents and grandparents

AOL 9.0 Accused of Behaving Like Badware It’s amazing, though, that this is the first time we’ve heard about this in the news media. This has been going on for years. IT folks have cringed for years any time they were approached with a AOL question. Why only now do we hear about it? Well...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 08-28-2006
Filed under: Security, Software
Method to Better Predict Software Vulnerabilities

Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a model to predict with much greater accuracy the number and severity of vulnerabilities that will likely surface in operating systems and in major software applications in the near future. The research is lead by Yashwant K. Malaiya, professor...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-02-2006
Filed under: Security, Software

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