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Seriously, it's 2006, and you're still using anything other than google and site: to search for something?

Okay okay, that is a bit of a cop-out (though it's mostly true). There are some cases where multiple articles exist, separated only by case [1]. Though in the most normal case, you're right, case insensitive search would be helpful. Don't quote me on this, but I heard that the devs might be working on it [2] [3], but that there might be some DB indexing issue that they need to figure out before they're able to do this efficiently?

I'd reccommend clamAV for windows or clamwin, both are windows ports of the excellent GPLd clam AV.

But I'm also going to make an obligatory dig at windows. Consider downloading some software that means you wont have to run anti-virus software.

(Staying true to my username, I would also like to reccommend os x, but as it's not available for download, and requires new hardware, I won't).

ClamWin is a GUI program for scanning Windows files using a subset of the ClamAV engine and includes an Outlook/OE plugin. ClamAV for Win32 is a port of ClamAV; no GUI but ports the daemons; much faster than using command line scanning.

http://www.sosdg.org/clamav-win32/

I would highly recomend checking out Clam AV.

It comes in both *nix and Windows varients and works pretty well for system scanning. It also works very well in a mail server tool-chain.

MTW

Ahhh, got a temp fix that people can use to solve the issue until MS figures out what is the cause exactly.

From my blog:

With help and ideas from an MS guy, I've managed to narrow down the bug which is causing the issue.

The version of browseui.dll (6.0.2900.2802) from the 905915 update is the culprit.

If you disable WFP, reboot with the recovery console, and replace it with browseui.dll (6.0.2900.2753 from previous update, probably 896688 IIRC), then reboot again, behavior will return back to normal. Don't forget to delete the browseui.dll from dllcache and reenable WFP.

I never had much luck playing most videos in windows until I downloaded the ACE mega codecs package off a DC++ user. Its a nasty hack but once its installed you could play almost every format ever conceived.

I wish there was a linux equivalent.

In my experience (as a recent convert to FreeBSD+KDE for my main desktop) the video codecs available are a little immature and just need some polishing. They remind me of what it was like watching videos on windows about 4-5 years ago. That is to say it can be hit and miss quality wise. Codecs in windows are pretty bullet proof now, and even poorly encoded videos display quite well.

For video I use vlc and mplayer...its my experience that if of those programs can't handle a video very well, the other one will. They even play obscure formats like matrosky or whatever its called. Also, the mplayer mozilla plugin works beautifully for me.

For audio check out BMP (beep media player, based on xmms but uses gtk2 instead of 1.2) or audacious (which is a new fork of bmp now that bmp development is dead.) These programs are a decent reproduction of the winamp interface, and even support most types of streaming. The only type of streams I haven't been able to get to work are certain asx encapsulated wma streams, and I think thats cause of some drm bullshit.

Some ppl get a hardon when they talk about amarok for audio, but I tried it and didn't care for it. An audio player shouldn't bring a p4 to its knees, but thats what amarok did to me. Too bad because it looked pretty good from what I read.

XMMS is deprecated, try XMMS2 or Beep Media Player instead.

Has anyone looked at open source alternatives as ClamWin and ClamAV for Windows. How do they compare to the commercial couterparts?

Everything from sysinternals, 7-Zip, VNC, PuTTY, ClamWin, etc.

My take on this is that it is ok for him to charge for Windows binaries, provided that he makes the changes that he does to the Win version available to the world with the rest of XChat.

He also has to make available to the world the source code for every library he links with thats covered under the GPL.

This means that he can't build in hidden/extra features to the XChat for Windows client without giving them to everyone. That, would be a violation of the GPL.

Based on how I've read the GPL and how I've personally used it, he hasn't violated the license provided he compiles with the source requirements.

I'll also note that this does not stop anyone from building a completely free and uncrippled version for Windows and releasing it to the public (since you have the same code he used to build his version, this shouldn't be too hard for someone with experience building highly portable UNIX/Linux GUI apps under Windows).

If you don't like how XChat is being done, may I suggest using my port of ircII EPIC4 For Windows at http://www.sosdg.org/epic4-win32. Source is of course, available to anyone and everyone, and its completely uncrippled.

Ugh, this is what happens with lack of sleep.

Enjoy!

http://www.sosdg.org/spoof/mskb666-691.html

I just uploaded a new build today of the SOSDG ClamAV For Windows version with some new features and bug fixes.

We are however, working on interface which should allow real time scanning like what Norton Antivirus offers.

http://www.sosdg.org/clamav-win32/index.php

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Clam Anti-Virus yet. They even have a Windows port and a Windows GUI frontend.

ClamAV runs on Windows.

For the command line users.
http://www.sosdg.org/clamav-win32/index.php

If you want a frontend for easy, graphical usage.
http://clamwin.sourceforge.net/

Cheers,

AC

Since OSDL is kinda slow and lagged, heres the image:

http://www.sosdg.org/images/linux_dev_process.jpg

Did you even read the link to the email that AT&T sent out?
"What AT&T is asking is for you to help AT&T to restrict incoming mail to just our known and trusted sources (e.g., business partners, clients and customers)....If you need assistance determining what these IP addresses are, please contact your company's administrative e-mail server support / network administration personnel." (emphasis mine).