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Vol. 15, #37 - Sep 6, 2010 - Issue #796 The Last Line of Defense This issue of WServerNews is sponsored by Editor's Corner The Last Line Of Defense (TLLOD) Quotes of the Week Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without Webinars & Seminars Free Desktop Virtualization Seminar with expert Brian Madden Tech Briefing Hot Certified, Noncertified IT Skills: What You Need Now IBM Claims World`s Fastest Chip A VM Gotcha With A Nice Recovery VMware vCloud Director Unveiled at VMworld 2010 Windows Server News Building A Support System For Dynamic Hyper-V Environments Using VMware ThinApp To Virtualize Applications Hypervisors: Which Is Right For You? Top 10 Cloud Computing Startups Selecting A VDI Performance Measurement And Management Tool Third Party News September Special Offers Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA) 50% discount on new licenses Have Email Archiving Needs Changed? Product Notification: VIPRE Enterprise 4.0 Console Update WServerNews Fave Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. WServerNews - Product of the Week myPassword. Securing your business, one password at a time. myPassword. Securing your business, one password at a time. In today’s fast paced mobile business environment, a comprehensive and cost effective identity management plan is more important than ever and critical to preventing devastating security breaches. myPassword is an easy to use, yet extremely powerful, self-service password management solution that provides end users with a cost-efficient, safe and secure method to reset forgotten passwords, meet complexity requirements and manage locked accounts. myPassword minimizes user downtime, dramatically decreases Help Desk costs and delivers an immediate ROI to your organization: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-passwordreset Editor's Corner The Last Line Of Defense (TLLOD) Familiar with the TLLOD startup? Probably not, they were new to me too. LastLine, Inc., provides protection technology that is complementary to existing anti-virus software and firewalls. They gather malware intelligence by analyzing millions of suspicious URLs and binaries each day, and pinpoint the exploit servers that are behind drive-by exploits campaigns and the command and control server that manage botnets. This is the malicious infrastructure that is used by cyber criminals to carry out their attacks. Last week they were instrumental in taking down a botnet consisting of 30 command & control servers and 'zillions' of zombies. (The number is unknown but large.) In this exercise, TLLOD contacted eight ISPs to take down about 60% of the C&C servers, which talked to zombie PCs infected with a variant of bot software known as Pushdo/Cutwail. There was major impact, but this is the third time that a Pushdo botnet was taken down, and each time the cyber criminals reconstitute their networks fairly quickly. Looks like they too have some sharp system admins that know how to do disaster recovery. This is actually an interesting story about the cyber crime IT infrastructure. TLLOD Blog: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-pushdocutwail Quotes of the Week "I hate to lose more than I love to win." - Jimmy Connors "Little strokes fell great oaks." -- Benjamin Franklin, US Founding Father "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." -- also by Benjamin Franklin. Warm regards, and thank you for being a WServerNews subscriber. No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. Please tell your friends about us. They can subscribe here: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-sub PS: Did you know this newsletter has a sister publication for XP users called WXPnews? You can subscribe here, and tell your friends: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-subscribe PPS: And now we have our new Win7News! You can subscribe here, and tell your friends: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-subscribewin7 Hope you enjoy this issue of WServerNews! Warm regards, Stu  |   Email me: feedback@wservernews.com Call For Votes - for 6 GFI/VIPRE products GFI is on a roll: GFI and VIPRE have made it to the finals of the Computing Security Awards in the UK! GFI has been nominated in 6 categories: Anti Spam Solution of the Year - GFI MailEssentials Data Leakage Prevention Solution of the Year - GFI EndPointSecurity Bench Tested Solution of the Year - GFI MailArchiver (no public vote) Anti Spam Solution of the Year - VIPRE Anti Virus Solution of the Year - VIPRE SME Security Solution of the Year - VIPRE Please visit this site and vote now: http://www.wservernews.com/100830-Computing-Security-Awards Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without Simplify your life with mPowerTools - 100+ Reports - tackle AD chores in bulk - a search & replace tool - you'll never script again AND NO third party databases! http://www.wservernews.com/100906-namescape Join Prism Microsystems for "10 Best Practices to Windows Security" Friday, September 10, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT http://www.wservernews.com/100906-gotomeeting PacketTrap IT Infrastructure Management Solution from ScriptLogic Solve problems with bandwidth, network and application performance http://www.wservernews.com/100906-scriptlogic InfoWorld put together eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading. Worth checking out, here they are: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-infoworld The Capacity Management Suite 2.0 is in the top 3 for the VMworld 2010 Best of Show in the "Virtualization Management" category: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-vkernal Webinars & Seminars Free Desktop Virtualization Seminar with expert Brian Madden Attend this complimentary one-day seminar featuring industry analyst and blogger Brian Madden who explains how virtualization technologies can help you save time and money and simplify the management of your user's desktops. Coming to Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago and Irvine this year, Brian reviews the current state of desktop virtualization, application virtualization and streaming, and the evolution of thin client computing. Don’t miss out - reserve your seat today! http://www.wservernews.com/100906-techtarget Tech Briefing Hot Certified, Noncertified IT Skills: What You Need Now What are the "hot" certified and noncertified skills that IT professionals need? IT research analyst Foote Partners of Vero Beach, Fla., has some answers. eWEEK parsed out the top 10 certified and top 10 noncertified skills from the report that are trending for the next three to six months from Foote Partners' latest "Hot List" skills report. Foote Partners' research emphasis on skills and certifications purports to capture "forward indicators of technology, business and even business investments," as well as "insights into technology segmentation (commitments, purchase intentions)." A fair amount of software- and programming-related skills, with specific mention of Linux and securing Linux, were included in a recent report outlining the skills IT professionals most need now. Here is a look at the current top 10 certified and top 10 noncertified skills from the report: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-eweek IBM Claims World`s Fastest Chip IBM will ship its new z196 processor this month, positioned as the world’s fastest chip. The new CPUs will ship in a new version of the IBM mainframe--the zEnterprise System--that begins shipping to customers on Sept. 10. IBM distinguished engineer, Jim Porell, told eWEEK the chip in IBM's new zEnterprise System clocks in at record-breaking 5.2 GHz speed to handle the growing number of business transactions as global connectivity and data proliferate. More at eWEEK: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-IBM A VM Gotcha With A Nice Recovery You may not be familiar with the NTSYSADMIN that Sunbelt/GFI has hosted for the last few hundred years or so. This is a posting from NPARR that I thought you might like. There are many of these on a regular basis. This list is free and a great resource. Subscribe here, bottom left: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-sunbeltcommunities "So I shut down a DC VM yesterday and go to turn it back on and get a hosed ntoskrnl.exe upon boot. Great, another learning experience brought to you by Tuesday, the new Monday. Restore the VM Backup from day before and still have the error. So the virtual disk has been fragged for a while. I try booting off install iso and restoring the file and get errors trying to restore the corrupt file, so the disk is really in bad shape. Last ditch effort I attach the virtual disk to another server and run chkdsk on it. Viola, It finds a ton of file and index errors and fixes them. Detach, power on DC and it boots up with no problem. So if I would have done that in the first place it would have taken me an whole five minutes. So the moral of the story is don't assume your backups are good. Even if you can restore them, if you haven't booted them then you can't be sure, what a pain." VMware vCloud Director Unveiled at VMworld 2010 VMware vCloud Director makes it possible to offer virtual Data Center Infrastructure without requiring IT involvement in the provisioning process. Instead of describing it, here are seven screen shots that tell more than a thousand words: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-vmware Windows Server News Building A Support System For Dynamic Hyper-V Environments Moving toward virtualization means your approach to support also changes. Read this expert tip to learn how to build an efficient support system for a dynamic Hyper-V environment: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-supportsystem Using VMware ThinApp To Virtualize Applications Are you looking for ways to make your application deployment and management easier? This exclusive article details how application virtualization can help you achieve this goal, and explores different application virtualization software: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-thinapp Hypervisors: Which Is Right For You? Gain insight into how you can get the most out of your hypervisors with this featured content. Learn how to select a hypervisor that is right for your organization’s specific needs and which criterion is most important when deciding: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-hypervisors Top 10 Cloud Computing Startups Access this popular slide show to discover which companies made SearchCloudComputing.com’s list of the top ten cloud computing startups. You may be surprised by who did and did not make the cut1: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-top10 Selecting A VDI Performance Measurement And Management Tool Guaranteeing appropriate levels of performance takes a lot more than just throwing additional bandwidth at a virtual desktop infrastructure. This VDI e-book helps you ensure you’re selecting a performance measurement and management tool that can efficiently support your organization: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-selectavdi Third Party News September Special Offers VIPRE Enterprise 50% discount on new licenses, plus, we'll buy-out existing maintenance contracts for up to 1 year! VIPRE Enterprise provides the performance and protection you need to achieve total endpoint malware protection, all managed from a central console. COMPLETE! All-in-one protection from today’s malware FAST! High-performance and low impact on system resources EASY! Manage everything from one central command center RELIABLE! Configurable, real-time monitoring technology AFFORDABLE! 50% discount pricing to save you money Offer ends September 30th Test drive VIPRE Today! Call us for a quote 1-800-688-8404 Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA) 50% discount on new licenses SEA delivers affordable enterprise-class email archiving and enables you to better cope with the growing volume of emails. SEA can help to drastically reduce the size of your Exchange store by up to 80%. It’s seamless to end-users, and allows for compliance and efficient eDiscovery. You can also do away with PST headaches! Gain control over your email management storage costs while ensuring compliance and increasing performance and efficiency. Request your quote today, offer ends September 30th! Have Email Archiving Needs Changed? GFI's blog had an interesting article. Here is how it starts: "Email Archiving has been around for quite a while now and according to a 2009 study (The Radicati Group "E-Mail Archiving Market, 2009-2013") the market is predicted to grow from $2.1 billion back in 2009 to over $5.1 billion by 2013. The IT landscape has changed significantly since the first Email Archiving solutions emerged and some of these changes also seem to have an impact not only on the general SMB/SME email needs, but also on their email archiving needs. Mailbox Limit The growing popularity and widespread use of web based email has changed the way people use email. Google’s philosophy with Gmail to encourage users never to delete an email but to simply archive old emails was truly groundbreaking. Upon launch Gmail offered a massive 1 GB (now >7.4 GB) of free storage which dwarfed its competitors’ Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail meager 2 and 4 Mb respectively. A direct result of this has seen business users question their often very small business mailbox size limits and demand to be able to archive all business emails. Business users also want seamless access to all their emails including the archived one. More: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-gfiarchiving Product Notification: VIPRE Enterprise 4.0 Console Update Date: August 31st, 2010 - Notification Type: Console Update Product: VIPRE Enterprise 4.0, VIPRE Enterprise Premium 4.0, CounterSpy Enterprise 4.0 - Version: All - Operating System: All product-supported OSen We are very pleased to announce the release of VIPRE Enterprise Premium, VIPRE Enterprise, and CounterSpy Enterprise Console/Service Update 2 (version 4.0.4359). Update 2 is a very comprehensive release with a number of fixes and enhancements designed to improve the overall function, performance, stability, and ease-of-use of our VIPRE Enterprise family of products. This is a free upgrade for all customers with a current maintenance agreement and does not require a reboot. The console and service release addresses these key areas: Policy templates have been added, which contain preset configurations and exclusions based on best-practice recommendations for many common environments Installation has been simplified by adding Simple/Advanced modes to the wizard Streamlined the upgrade process behind the scenes Simplified the database architecture for new installations Added a Site Maintenance screen, which allows the ability to change the volatile data repository (where the ThreatDB directory lives) Corrected the problem where console reporting data failed to update until the Enterprise service was restarted Improved the usability for Active Protection Auto deployment now works without the need to add agents to the catalog first Added the ability for agents with the same machine name on different domains to coexist Resolved various scenarios that could cause the console or service to crash Corrected various problems in the Report Viewer module Agent installation history now displays the local time Agent installation is more discoverable via dialogs that are raised when a policy without agents is selected Fixed code that would indicate "VSS Down" when PC times were not synchronized. Fixed bug where agent communication failed if the OS name was greater than 50 characters. Fixed bug where VSS would crash when proxy checkbox is enabled and no data is entered. A complete change log can be found via: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-sunbeltsupport This update can be obtained via either of the following methods: Via the message-of-the-day widget in your Enterprise console by selecting the download link for version 4.0.4359 http://www.wservernews.com/100906-sunbeltupdates WServerNews Fave Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. Wow. SuperFave of the week. Watch it full-screen and step back. After a 3 week climb, two Australians set a world record base jump at the Great Trango Tower in the Karakorum, Pakistan from an altitude of 20,600 feet: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-basejump Helicopter vs. Car. A scene from the Bollywood action film "Magadheera". This is 'state of the art' in India now, LOL. Check it out: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-helivscar For your Labor Day weekend, a short Tech Museum Vacation: Eight Computer Museums Worth the Visit: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-techmuseum Once again, Roger Federer stunned his opponent and the crowd with a between the legs shot at the US Open 2010 tennis game: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-federer An optimistic outlook and a little imagination can help to make the best out of a non-optimum situation. European Filmschool 1st place winner: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-filmschool This week's Cute Animal Fave: A dog is man's best friend, but this dog's best friend is a dolphin: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-dogdolphin Can't imagine how much time it took to set this up. This would bring tears to the eyes of Rube Goldberg: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-tears A stove that recommends recipes, wallpaper that changes color at the touch of a finger and a table that may just be the world's largest iPod - it's not science fiction, just the first wave of futuristic homes: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-futurehome Need to have actual physical protection of your server racks? These guys have come up with an interesting solution: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-serverracks Parkour is the physical discipline of overcoming any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment. These students from Cambridge University are masters in it: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-morningrun WServerNews - Product of the Week myPassword. Securing your business, one password at a time. In today’s fast paced mobile business environment, a comprehensive and cost effective identity management plan is more important than ever and critical to preventing devastating security breaches. myPassword is an easy to use, yet extremely powerful, self-service password management solution that provides end users with a cost-efficient, safe and secure method to reset forgotten passwords, meet complexity requirements and manage locked accounts. myPassword minimizes user downtime, dramatically decreases Help Desk costs and delivers an immediate ROI to your organization: http://www.wservernews.com/100906-POTWnamescape

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