This new webinar from www.centrify.com has been announced lately - featuring my good pal Jeremy Moskowitz - it’s gonna be awesome!

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Five Top Benefits of Using Windows Group Policy to Secure and Manage UNIX, Linux and Mac Systems

    Date:           February 21, 2008    
    Time:          2 p.m. Eastern US (11 a.m. Pacific)    
    Duration:     1 hour  

 
In this live webinar, Linux, UNIX and Mac admins will get a concise overview of how Group Policy works from Jeremy Moskowitz, author of authoritative works on both Windows Group Policy and Windows/Linux integration. Centrify’s David McNeely will then explain the workings of the Group Policy engine that is seamlessly built into DirectControl and the unique benefits of using it for non-Windows policy enforcement. He’ll also demonstrate using Windows Group Policy to lock down user and security settings on a Mac desktop system.

Register now (*CLICK HERE*) and we’ll send you a free copy of our complementary white paper on extending Windows Group Policy to Linux, UNIX and Mac.

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Ekxdvft Toolbar is a bad toolbar. The Ekxdvft Toolbar usually get installed onto your PC without your permission, through Trojan, malware and virus (or you could get it by installing a fake video codec).

Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility

Manual Ekxdvft Toolbar Removal Instructions:

Unregister Ekxdvft Toolbar DLL Files:
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byxww.dll
ssqpp.dll
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browsew.dll
ddcyvtt.dll
ctl3d3.dll
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oggview32.dll
turbosearchsite.dll

Find and Delete these Trojan Win32.Murlo Files:
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byxww.dll
ssqpp.dll
ezzhjmt.dll
ddcyvtt.dll
ctl3d3.dll
hggdbab.dll
toprates.dll
sprt_ads.dll
browsew.dll
oggview32.dll
turbosearchsite.dll

Remove Ekxdvft Toolbar Registry Values:
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You can also download the free version of Avira Antivir to remove the spyware (update)

Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product

The results of the analysis show that Windows Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor. Analysis of security updates also shows that Microsoft improvements to the security update process and development process have reduced the impact of security updates to Windows administrators significantly compared to its predecessor, Windows XP.

Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

Well the day has finally come - Windows 2008, and Vista SP1 have been released to manufacturing. If you are a MSDN subscriber you can download both of them - if you can get in.

Right now it looks like the MSDN servers are being crushed by the number of people trying to download:

For Windows 2008 the highlights are:

-Significantly improved performance of IIS

-Built-in virtualization (Hypervisor)

-Faster file sharing (There have been many good benchmarks on this one)

-Introduction of the Core edition (A stripped down command line only version)

More information about the Windows 2008

For Vista SP1:

- 50% improvement of network file copies. (Sure hope this is true)

- Resuming from sleep mode significantly improved

- Many common causes of crashes addressed, and fixed

Service Pack 1 is a very important milestone because it addresses many of the key issues that our customers have identified with Windows Vista over the last year both, directly and through programs like the Customer Experience Improvement Program. With Service Pack 1, we have made great progress in performance, reliability and compatibility. One of the great things about my job is that I get to play with the latest builds of our products — I’ve personally been running Windows Vista SP1 pretty exclusively for a few months and I’ve noticed that my systems run faster and more reliably than they did with the “Gold” release of Windows Vista.

When we first released Windows Vista last year, there were lots of customers who had great experiences, but some had issues finding applications that worked well on Windows Vista; others had problems finding the right device drivers for some of the hardware devices that they used. The reason for these issues is that in order to improve the reliability and security of Windows Vista, we made some important architectural changes to the system. While this caused some issues in the short term, in the long term we…

Microsoft have by released Vista SP1 to manufacturing, but users won’t be able to actually download it until mid-March at the earliest, company officials said Monday. During beta testing for Vista SP1, Microsoft found that some device drivers were causing problems on systems with SP1 installed. Although the issues can be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, Microsoft decided this would be too complicated for most users. As a result, Microsoft will spend the next month hunting for additional problematic device drivers, said David Zipkin, senior product manager in Windows Client Group.”With drivers, we wanted to make sure when folks upgrade to Vista that they have a smooth experience,” Zipkin said.
In mid-March, Microsoft plans to release Vista SP1 in 5 languages — English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese — through Windows Update and the Download Center, Zipkin said, adding that Microsoft will ensure that SP1 isn’t pushed out to PCs that have the aforementioned drivers installed. In April, Microsoft will begin auto updates of Vista SP1 to users who’ve chosen this option, and will also release the rest of the language specific versions of Vista SP1, Zipkin…