January 5, 2010 - 10:51 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 19 comments
I know the feeling of your secure network being compromised by an end user… Passwords do fall into the wrong hands and then what do you do? Scenarios start running through my head and I make a mental list of all the passwords and system configs that need to be changed. These aren’t fun times [...]
January 3, 2010 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in Questions | 18 comments
You know the saying, “You can’t have too much RAM or too much storage.”
Well, there is at least one case where a lot of RAM can cause problems.
My current desktop had 1 Gig of RAM and I recently bought an additional 2 Gigs since the price was so low. (And of course I used [...]
October 26, 2009 - 6:30 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | 9 comments
As avid Windows users you have seen how applications add right click menu options. For instance Mcafee antiVirus adds a shortcut to Scan For Threats in the selected folder or Resco’s options to encrypt or de-crypt a folder.
Now you want to add useful right click options for yourself and AtA is here to show you [...]
October 15, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Tips/Tricks | 5 comments
Everyone knows your friendly neighborhood admin is all about shortcut keys and uber productivity.
I don’t know how I never found this one before… Check it out you have your quick launch buttons displayed next to your start menu for easy access.
By default you have Show Desktop, IE and whatever other applications you installed. Now you [...]
August 11, 2009 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Reviews | 15 comments
We have used many different retail programs to recover accidentally or maliciously deleted files off of our PC, Digital Camera or Mobile device. We have tried a few free ones and they bring us back to the old saying… You get whatcha pay for! As such we never really covered the topic here on Ata, [...]
July 30, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Reviews | 10 comments
We have reviewed Crucial Memory in the past here when we gave away a 2gb memory module to one of our readers. So we were happy to plug them again when Jenny from San Fransisco wrote us asking:
Yo Admin can you tell me what kind of memory is in my PC without me having to [...]
July 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, Free Download | 6 comments
Do you hate looking for and downloading drivers on every re-format?
Well if you can get to your desktop you should be able to run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your fresh clean formatted system! We covered something a little while [...]
June 1, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | No comments
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?
Think about it… How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said – I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?
How about Power Point [...]
April 16, 2009 - 7:56 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Questions | 5 comments
This morning we had a request for adding a “High Priority Folder”.
This would be a top level folder that shows up on your Windows desktop and in My Computer. Didn’t think you could do that? Well read on…
The folder we will be creating can not be removed – just like My Computer or My Documents. [...]
I had the pleasure of attempting to migrate a print server this weekend. I mean I had to figure out a quick and efficient way to install the 70 some odd printers on a new server. I was not going to be doing this manually that was for shit sure! I had some junior admins [...]
Found this interesting article on ClamAV’s website.
August 15, 2007 - 11:01 am
Wow I’m Shocked. We might just need to rethink our AV strategy! Good looking out.
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August 15, 2007 - 12:31 pm
im not surprised i hate them nai peopel
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August 15, 2007 - 12:42 pm
The testing methodology has been heavily criticised by many members of the anti-virus community and respected security testing bodies such as Virus Bulletin, ESET (makers of NOD32), Independent researcher David Harley (PDF format), McAfee, Eddy Williems of EICAR, and Mark Harris of SophosLabs.
The ESET and David Harley papers in particular go into details as to why Antivirus Fight Club is probably not something worth paying much attention to.
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August 15, 2007 - 12:52 pm
Yes that last comment is true:
Whilst I’m sure the tests were well intentioned, they are not particularly scientific and as the author admits, Sophos results were significantly improved if the tester turned on the relevant options, suggesting the product documentation was not consulted.
Having retrieved the samples (the author having posted the malware samples on a public website!!!) it appears a few extra settings were required, in particular, one of the samples was a email stored as MIME but the ‘decode MIME’ option wasn’t turned on. Another sample was in fact a potentially unwanted application and again, the option to enable detection for PUAs wasn’t used.
While Sophos performed better than many of its competitors, the sample set was far too small, the methodology was confused and the author obviously isn’t well versed in handling malware. All of this goes to show that testing anti-virus products is a lot more complex than grabbing a few samples and scanning them.
I would recommend anyone wishing to compare products to look for recognised testing organisations and publications such as West Coast Labs and Virus Bulletin.
So take particular care in using this biased testing.
Do you just setup your AV and not configure the options?
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August 15, 2007 - 3:05 pm
ninja & anon: If you’re right, and some settings needed to be configured, then I would call that a fair test.
Simply put, most average people will simply install a product and assume it is set right. They are not uber-admins like us who tinker and dick around until we have things tight.
And no test is truly unbiased. It just isn’t. It’s like statistics, you pretty much always end up with the result you were looking for by excluding things that you don’t want to muck up the works.
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August 15, 2007 - 3:11 pm
Sloth is right – it is not a measure of the product but how the normal user will install it.
Dude buys software
Dude installs software
Dude forgets about software until it is time to renew
Dude is your average end user.
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August 15, 2007 - 4:05 pm
why can i talk about antivirus fight club
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August 15, 2007 - 10:05 pm
thank you for the great story. i love reading your blog please keep up the amazing stories.
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