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Posted in How-To, Networking, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin, Video on Nov 25th, 2008
Logmein has been around for some time now and has grown into a very reliable and usable product. Logmein’s primary function of remote access to a single PC located at home or at work is absolutely free. Logmein also offers a myriad of pay options for IT administrators as well as corporate users for enterprise level remote access. Once […]
Posted in PC Maintenance, SysAdmin, Utilities on Nov 14th, 2008
Have you ever tried to delete a file or folder in Windows only to be greeted with the error message below?
This message is no doubt annoying, and up until now the most reliable solution was to simply reboot your computer. A nice utility called Unlocker helps to free up locked files and folders so you […]
Posted in SysAdmin, Utilities, Virus/Spyware Removal on Sep 15th, 2008
Malwarebytes is a relatively new spyware scanner that is very effective in cleaning your PC from the newer more resilient spyware these days. I particularly like Malwarebytes because it is one of the only spyware scanners to detect and remove the notorious Antivirus 2007 infection , something Ad-Aware and Spybots cannot do. The software will also scan […]
Posted in PC Maintenance, Security, SysAdmin, Utilities, Virus/Spyware Removal on Feb 18th, 2008
Root-kits are a relatively new threat on the modern Internet and no other company has a better root-kit removal tool than F-Secure and their “Blacklight” utility. What exactly is a root-kit you ask? Here’s a definition from Wikipedia to help get you started:
A root-kit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take fundamental control (in […]
Posted in Email, Hosting and Services, SysAdmin, WebDev on Feb 11th, 2008
I have used hMailServer for testing of various email related functions including anti-spam software and configurations. The hMailServer interface is very intuitive and easy to use. All Email data and accounts utilize either MS-SQL or MySQL databases for the back-end support. If you don’t feel like setting up and configuring a SQL server, no worries, hMailServer includes a lite version of […]
Posted in Backup/Recovery, Data Storage, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin, Utilities on Feb 10th, 2008
Cobian Backup is a nice and simple utility for scheduling Windows backups. Cobian Backup is far superior than the default backup utility that comes bundled with Microsoft Windows. Cobian Backup supports .ZIP compression and 256-bit encryption which make is very good for data archiving and long-term storage. You can also use it to schedule backups to shared network drives and have email notifications sent to alert […]
Posted in Networking, PC Maintenance, SysAdmin on Feb 9th, 2008
RealVNC has been around for awhile now and provides a simple remote server and viewer package for any desktop PC. The VNC project is particularly popular in the Linux community for providing remote access to Linux desktops. RealVNC is a nice alternative to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Windows as it provides “overlay” access […]