Windows Server IT Pro Community Tour

Come out and meet your local IT Professional Evangelist Matt Hester in Grand Rapids, MI on March 25th at 6:30pm
  He wants to meet you and get to know you. What a better way than with Windows Server 2008 R2, giveaways and food. He will be talking about the many administrative benefits of Windows Server 2008 R2. He will also talk about his experiences with his recently published book Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference , this should be a fun evening. He will have a couple copies of his book to give away and other fun stuff. Be sure to attend and learn more of what Windows Server 2008 R2 has to offer!  Must register via following link:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032445276&Culture=en-US

For other Cities:

http://blogs.technet.com/matthewms/archive/2010/03/05/register-now-it-pro-s-windows-server-it-pro-community-tour-coming-soon.aspx

HP MediaSmart 3.0 update available for order

 

I have my MediaSmart 3.0 update and 2gig ram upgrade ordered, looking forward to updating my EX475 soon.

Terry Walsh of We Got Served has a overview of the process:

http://www.wegotserved.com/2010/02/23/upgrading-the-hp-mediasmart-server-ex470ex480-series-with-the-3-0-update/

You may order you update for $25 +shipping from HP:

1. www.hp.com
2. support and drivers
3. step 1 – select download drivers
4. step 2 – select product, ex475 in my case
5. select operating system of your pc that you will use to do the upgrade
6. Continue with your order

HP MediaSmart 3.0 update for EX470/475 and EX485/487

per:
http://usingwindowshomeserver.com/2010/02/06/hp-mediasmart-software-version-3-0-update-update/

We may ‘soon’ be able to order the long awaited version update to our original HP MediaSmart Windows Home Servers models EX470/475 and EX485/487.

“Antivirus Soft” new malware :(

 

  Tho it seems to be a pest at first, thankfully it seems to be a pretty easy fix:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-soft

1. Boot safe mode w/networking
2. Uncheck proxy in ie if it was changed
3. Download rkill to kill running stuff (was not required on the infected pc I was working on)
4. Download and run malwarebytes (I copied from my usb drive)
5. finished

Apple iPad first thoughts ;)

  Just got done watching the iPad announcement with Teresa.

  Looks pretty cool!  Love the ability to output the display to an external device like they used for the demo, that would have to be a must have cable.  Does it support active sync?  Still limited to storage space, have several folks already complaining that the storage is too small for their existing music collections on the iPod/iTouch.

  Beam me up Scotty!!!!

  Again this looks awesome for the consumer/kids/teens that are into watching/playing/listening/reading stuff by themselves in a non-family/group type environment, creating the BEST non face to face anti-social thing so far besides solitary confinement punishment in prison ;)  This is new babysitter and would save any ones sanity on a long road trip in a car.

  Can see two people on a date, each on their own iPad watching their own movie and sending messages back and forth to each other

  We see adding a universal remote app to iPad and it becoming the device sitting next to the couch for sure!

  And it makes an AWESOME picture frame!!

  We, being the minority, enjoy watching TV/movies on a big screen together or with others vs a 10 in screen alone.

  We do not listen to music with headphones by ourselves, not even in the car much.

  We do not play games without the pleasure of playing games with others.  Ok, Teresa loves bejeweled and Project Natal is going to be awesome for gaming.

  We do not read books or newspapers online or on paper :)  We use twitter/Facebook/blogs or as in Teresa’s case she actually listens to talk radio for the latest news ;)

  Since we canceled cable TV, we did not even think about the ball drop for New Year’s.  We had twelve people around a 19” computer screen watching the live show via the internet because we could not find a method to watch via the xbox, major dumb :)   Next year we will be watching the ball drop on the 65” TV even if we have to get cable for a month (under debate) ;) 

  Beam me up Scotty!!!!

  Oh, and we see the uptick trend for man bag sales!!!

  Good thing we can write it off as a business expense? ;)  Then again can it be ‘business’ expense?

  Steve Jobs comment on the crossroads of Technology and Liberal Arts sums it up.

Another Email Spam/Malware with “Your friend invited you to twitter!” in the subject

 

  Guess, now that Bill Gates has joined Twitter as www.twitter.com/BillGates we will see more attacks that are twitter related :(

  The message body on this one looks good and the links to “Sign up now” and “Sign in” are even valid.  It is the attached ZIP file that contains a file named:
”document.chm                                                            .exe”
  Notice the spaces between the chm (help file) and the real extension of .exe (executable).

==========================
attachment: Invitation Card.zip
from: invitations@twitter.com
subject: Your friend invited you to twitter!
message (along:

New to Twitter? Sign up now
Have an account? Sign in

 

Your friend invited you to twitter!

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question:

What are you doing?

To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.
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Another Email Spam/Malware with “settings file” in subject

 

The subject is “A new settings file for the (your_email_here) mailbox has just been released” and the body references “security upgrade of the mailing service” and the email is pretending to come from your own domain.

As we have mentioned before always check out the link before clicking on it.  The link that we see is only the text for the underlying web site that you would be redirected to,  When you highlight the link here you would see that the:

http://***hltechsolutions.com***/owa really is going to send you to

http://***hltechsolutions.com.molendf.or.kr***/owa

The email is pretending to come from your own domain