Actually, Microsoft has never stated that IE7 will be forced to the users after a grace period. In fact, the block will hold as long as the blocker is in place.
This is blatently wrong - hiberfil.sys is your hibernate file... When Windows hibernates, it writes the contents of your RAM to disk, and that is why hiberfil.sys is the same size as your RAM. This should not be set as "5" for informative and needs to be set to "1"...
There have been a lot of views expressed in the comments and I'd like to just throw another viewpoint out there =)
We recently released a whitepaper detailing the data we have collected from our Malicious Software Removal Tool. I'll let our whitepaper speak for itself. =)
I'm reading a lot of presumptions about the Claria response letter, but failed to see a link to the article. I recommended everyone first read the response and judge for themselves as well as take a look at our publicly posted spyware criteria.
Martin is referring to vintela which is a partner of Microsoft that authors SMS clients for non-Microsoft operating systems like linux. This allows SMS to manage non-Microsoft clients.
Actually, having ISA Server publish your Exchange server (using RPC) or Outlook Web Access (OWA) is a great alternative to hosting yet another server you're going to have to patch and lock down. Configuring a firewall that is meant to be secure is much easier than trying to tie down a web server. Web servers on the edge don't even have the monitoring and reporting capability that you will need to know that things are running smoothly (or not). If all you want to let out is webmail, just publish OWA. ISA Server can add a layer of protection that a web server can't, including URLScan filtering, SecurID two-factor authentication, and pre-authentication. On top of that, if you want, you can install a Symantec virus filtering agent on the ISA Server and simultaneously filter out viruses in your webmail. There are hundreds of users who user ISA to protect their Exchange and webmail. Don't take my word for it though. Check out:
The best answer is always to have defense in depth - Having a firewall in front of your web servers and email servers is good. Having an application aware firewall in front of your web/email servers is better. Having both and having a secure policy on them with AV software and keeping your machines patched is the best.
A little background. I currently work for Intel/Linux.com (sponsord by VA), but I am giving my honest opinon. My views don't necessarily represent the views of Linux.com or Intel. =p This information is from experience at UCLA Medical with image reconstruction machines, which I hope closely resemble what you plan to do with your machines. I do recommend PIII-733s because they support SMPs. Athlons, though a great chip, don't run in SMP mode yet. Having two PIIIs in a box will make your data processing twice as fast if they have multiple data sets. We tested similar machines (in terms of cost) on a dataset that required both floating point and integer preformance, and found the Intel machine to be faster than Sun's offerings. Since they are only processing datasets, there is no need for "Enterprise Reliability." If something breaks, load the dataset again, and run it on a different machine. No harm done. I would recommend getting 2gB of RAM. Nothing like keeping the CPU fed with data to keep it happy. Having enough memory for the job comes in second, right after cpu speed in these situations. The RIMMs however, should be avoided at the moment because they haven't been throughly testing in production environments yet, and neither are the 840 chipsets, but if you're feeling lucky, by all means do it, and post back to/. with your experiences. =) You can drop the UltraIDE, since you won't need them. It will only add cost. Stay with Ultra Wide SCSI since SCSI-160 isn't fully tested or widely available. You video card is fine, but if you're really looking to save another 100 bux, turn it into a S3 (w/ 8mB of RAM to handle the resolution of a 21"). You can likewise drop the DVD/PCI Soundcard. There is no need for them in this type of machine. Forget the powered speakers. You can drop your LS120 disks too. Also, the 3com905b network card performs poorly under linux, and is outright unsupported in most cases. Other 3com PCI 100/10bt network cards are preferred, or the Intel Ethernet Express Pro 100/10 series network cards. If you need to transfer data sets, use the network. If you're looking for full service w/o the hassle, I've had great experiences with Penguin Computing and VA Linux.
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Disclosure - I work for Microsoft... but come on... this is not even good enough to be a April Fools day joke...
Actually, Microsoft has never stated that IE7 will be forced to the users after a grace period. In fact, the block will hold as long as the blocker is in place.
blocker details.
Disclaimer : I am a product manager for IE =)
This is blatently wrong - hiberfil.sys is your hibernate file... When Windows hibernates, it writes the contents of your RAM to disk, and that is why hiberfil.sys is the same size as your RAM. This should not be set as "5" for informative and needs to be set to "1"...
There have been a lot of views expressed in the comments and I'd like to just throw another viewpoint out there =) We recently released a whitepaper detailing the data we have collected from our Malicious Software Removal Tool. I'll let our whitepaper speak for itself. =)
Microsoft's Anti-spyware criteria is listed here.
I'm reading a lot of presumptions about the Claria response letter, but failed to see a link to the article. I recommended everyone first read the response and judge for themselves as well as take a look at our publicly posted spyware criteria.
Disclaimer: Yes I work for MS =)
Martin is referring to vintela which is a partner of Microsoft that authors SMS clients for non-Microsoft operating systems like linux. This allows SMS to manage non-Microsoft clients.
Serverwatch
Microsoft's own site
ISAServer.org
The best answer is always to have defense in depth - Having a firewall in front of your web servers and email servers is good. Having an application aware firewall in front of your web/email servers is better. Having both and having a secure policy on them with AV software and keeping your machines patched is the best.
A little background. I currently work for Intel/Linux.com (sponsord by VA), but I am giving my honest opinon. My views don't necessarily represent the views of Linux.com or Intel. =p This information is from experience at UCLA Medical with image reconstruction machines, which I hope closely resemble what you plan to do with your machines. I do recommend PIII-733s because they support SMPs. Athlons, though a great chip, don't run in SMP mode yet. Having two PIIIs in a box will make your data processing twice as fast if they have multiple data sets. We tested similar machines (in terms of cost) on a dataset that required both floating point and integer preformance, and found the Intel machine to be faster than Sun's offerings. Since they are only processing datasets, there is no need for "Enterprise Reliability." If something breaks, load the dataset again, and run it on a different machine. No harm done. I would recommend getting 2gB of RAM. Nothing like keeping the CPU fed with data to keep it happy. Having enough memory for the job comes in second, right after cpu speed in these situations. The RIMMs however, should be avoided at the moment because they haven't been throughly testing in production environments yet, and neither are the 840 chipsets, but if you're feeling lucky, by all means do it, and post back to /. with your experiences. =) You can drop the UltraIDE, since you won't need them. It will only add cost. Stay with Ultra Wide SCSI since SCSI-160 isn't fully tested or widely available. You video card is fine, but if you're really looking to save another 100 bux, turn it into a S3 (w/ 8mB of RAM to handle the resolution of a 21"). You can likewise drop the DVD/PCI Soundcard. There is no need for them in this type of machine. Forget the powered speakers. You can drop your LS120 disks too. Also, the 3com905b network card performs poorly under linux, and is outright unsupported in most cases. Other 3com PCI 100/10bt network cards are preferred, or the Intel Ethernet Express Pro 100/10 series network cards. If you need to transfer data sets, use the network. If you're looking for full service w/o the hassle, I've had great experiences with Penguin Computing and VA Linux.