Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from Malicious Software removal tool

Microsoft has released an interesting report on some results from their Malicious Software Removal tool. There are some pretty shocking results of the amount of virii this thing has cleaned. For example 4.4 million removals of Win32/Rbot, another interesting statistic..the tool cleaned one computer that had over 251 variants of malware. I can only imagine what that person was doing on the web. : )

Article about it here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1975563,00.asp

See the full report from Microsoft here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/e/3de2470b-ab9a-4a7f-b760-ee2421df294a/WindowsRemovalToolWP.doc

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Download Pick: Single Sign On RDP Client

This weeks download pick is WBISoft Single Sign on RDP client.

http://wbisoft.com/index.php?id=60

Single sign on or Passthru authentication, whatever you call it, our latest download will hopefully help some of you by letting you connect to your remote servers (either console or normal RDP session) without entering credentials again in the remote session.

By caching the user cred's you enter on your PC at logon time the XPTS Single SignOn client will enable you to logon to your remote servers quickly.
Not only does this client support Single SignOn but also allow you to tunnel RDP via an HTTP proxy server (Note, does NOT support SSL, you need the full XPTS server install and full client for this and all other enhanced features) and the size of the desktop is scalable so you can shrink the window to a size that suits your desktop, organise the windows on the screen the way and size you want then the next time you open them, that's where they will be and at the size you set.

All of the usual support is in there for Disk, Printer, Port and Clipboard mapping so what are you waiting for check out the Free Stuff download page here

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2 stories of interest Google Sync and .Net 3.0

Google released browser sync plugin for Firefox to sync your cookies, favorites and other browser settings across any session or machine.
This is an important first step in the app access from anywhere.
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/index.html


See my previous blog post on WinFX and why I think this is the new frontier..

Microsoft has renamed the Winfx framework to .Net 3.0. I think this is good move for them and makes a lot of sense.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1974872,00.asp

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Google Spreadsheets now signing up beta testers...

Be the first to sign up to get on the beta test of Google Spreadsheets. Collaborate and share spreadsheets online for free. Why hasn't Microsoft got this type of thing going? Cmon guys.

http://spreadsheet.google.com

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Download Pick ADmodify.net

Damn this is cool! OK folks this is DEFINITELY a download pick of the week. Two snaps go to Dave Stevens for pointing out this Dotnet utility called ADModify. I wanted a way to add a new email domain in exchange 2003 for all users and make it the primary email address and also
keep the old domain active. I found my solution here:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF010.html

Basically Exchange 2003 has added something called Recipient Policies making something that used to be really difficult a snap. I also got pointed to the ADModify tool which also performs the same function and then some!

The ADModify tool will let you add/ modify /remove objects in bulk form within Active directory.

In other words any user properties in Active directory can easily be changed globally with it. I just used it to remove an old smtp address from over 1000 ad users accounts. Worked like a champ!

Must have .net on the machine.
See:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=f5cbbfa9-e46b-4a7a-8ed8-3e44523f32e2

Actual download is here
http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/releases/checkForDownload.aspx?id=f5cbbfa9-e46b-4a7a-8ed8-3e44523f32e2&releaseid=567213f5-dd90-4d64-a867-de53f71d168c

Which I knew about this a year ago when we did our migration!!
Jim

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Download Pick of the Week: IntelliAdmin RemoteReboot

Found this excellent utility that is so much better than Shutgui to restart computers on your network remotely. It is by a company called IntelliAdmin and is called Remote Reboot. This utility lets you choose a domain/hostname and provide alternate credentials to reboot a remote machine!

For more information see:

http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/05/reboot-computers-on-your-network.html


Direct download from:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/remotereboot.exe

Check this site out for some other cool utilities.

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OT: Why you are playing russian roullette if you use a search engine....

McAfee has released an interesting report on how safe search engines are:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/search_safety_may2006.html

Gotta love this...
On the five most popular sites -- Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask -- 72 percent of results for searches such as "free screensavers," "digital music," "popular software" and "singers" were risky.

Further reading of the document shows that picking the top results of a search aren't always safe either.

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