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Microsoft Security Essentials – Beta (Now Available)

Yes it is here “Microsoft Security Essentials”, the Beta for Microsoft’s new free anti virus (previously codenamed morro) and the replacement for One Care Live a paid anti virus solution Microsoft attempted earlier which reached eol in June 2009. We use Forefront Client Security (Microsoft’s corporate anti virus solution) at work, and it works quite well. The malware and anti virus part is just as good as any I have tried, but the corporate management part is somewhat lagging I would say. But as Microsoft Security Essentials is a standalone product this is not an issue, and I would suspect the engine etc. to be the same as Forefront Client Security so all in all I expect this to be an excelent product. Read more; http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ Here you can also get the beta (if you are eligible) http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Microsoft_Security_Essentials Here you can also get the beta (if you are not eligible 😉 ) A pretty good walkthrough here; http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/mse_beta.asp Some random posts; http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/microsoft-security-essentials-review-with-screenshots/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/167160/is_microsofts_morro_malware_in_disguise.html

2009-06-24/by Mike

GPS surviliance for the family

Gadgets, Security

Want to keep track of your car, kids, wife or whatever, well there are tons of solutions for this today. I just read about one called www.inanny.de (www.inanny.dk for Danes), this seem to be quite an organized setup and thus perhaps more reliable than some of the discount solutions on the marked. So if you are in the marked for some GPS tracking, maybe the www.inanny.desite is worth a visit. I how done no research into pricing (the unit seem cheap enough however ther may be some monthly fee or what not)..

2009-06-24/by Mike

Uptime – when was a server restarted

Utility

Ever wanted to know just how long a Windows 2003 server has been running (or rather when it was last restarted)? In unix and many other os’s you can simply type uptime and hit enter and viola you have the answer, however not in Windows 200x… But winding time back to the good old Windows NT4 days, Microsoft actually thought of this and created a small commandline that would do just this, however afterwards it was abandoned or forgotten…

But it’s actually still there (if you know where to look), so download it here and put it on your Windows box, and then you can simply goto a command prompt and type uptime 🙂 nice..

Download here;
http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsrv40/install/uptime_1.01/nt4/en-us/uptime.exe

Uptime [server] [/s ] [/a] [/d:mm/dd/yyyy | /p:n] [/heartbeat] 
[/? | /help] server  Name or IP address of remote server to process.
/s  Display key system events and statistics. 
/a  Display application failure events (assumes /s). 
/d:  Only calculate for events after mm/dd/yyyy. 
/p:  Only calculate for events in the previous n days. 
/heartbeat  Turn on/off the system's heartbeat 
/? Basic usage. /help  Additional usage information.

Source;
http://frankdzedzy.com/2008/06/06/check-windows-uptime-stats-w-uptimeexe/

2009-06-22/by Mike