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Quote: Unfortunately, I don't have any say in what software is installed on the computers here. The school has been using Mcafee since before I started working here. The older systems were rolled out w/ 4.0, the newer ones have 5.0 in the image, and the new lab machines are all corporate ed. I agree with your statement about mixing consumer and business software. Bad idea! Ahhhhh, so we are looking at more bad administration (at least in the image build) than anything else. If you go here, and select "Product Upgrades", you will be greeted with a request for your grant number. Enter that, and you will have access to the software that you are licensed to get. You will not see 5.x or 6.x in there as they are consumer edition, and some really nice utilities to work with for installer design and administration. Check it out sometime.

Are you using Index Server? Because if you are not, remove it from the global WWW properties. You can check that out here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevie...crsc_iisscr.asp Also, have you properly locked down IIS (all the updates, use URLScan/IISLockdown, etc)? IISLockdown would normally unregister that filter anyway unless specified not to, so you are probably not using it. You should check your IIS logs as well to see if you are getting scanned or have been attacked by some old Code Red servers, because they used to hit some old exploits on that filter. If you were being scanned, you would see some gibberish like this in your logs: /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTH

Just upped my proc to 150FSB (Quad-Pimped ), so now my little 1.6GHz is running at 2.4GHz. I had bumped the voltage to 1.55, but I might bring it back down again to see what happens.

According to the newest article, even with all the spiffy little benchmarks run and the Intel proc (in both RDRAM and DDR) taking the lead on many of them, their conclusion is that AMD is still better. Now, how is that so? I have never been a fan of benchmarks, and certainly not of Tom's Hardware for the last couple of years, but I think this clearly points out their bias toward the Intel product. The bottom line is that Intel put out a processor that can be clocked faster AND runs all those stupid little benchmarks faster. Yet, in the closing statement you see: Quote: In the benchmark results, the Athlon XP 2300+ cannot quite keep pace with the Intel Pentium 4/3000, but the values that we measured are very impressive. In order to outperform the Intel Pentium 4/3000, AMD must switch over to 0.13 Micron in order to enable higher clock speeds. According to our laboratory results, with a speed of 1933 MHz, AMD can reach the performance of a Pentium 4/3000 based on DDR SDRAM. This clock speed can only be achieved by the new Athlon XP with the Thoroughbred core, which is expected soon. Yet, at the top of the very same page, AMD is crowned as "The Stronger Performer". Huh? AMD will have to convert to another process to keep up in the clock speed race, *yet* they have the better CPU? What do you guys think?

Quote: 25% of the computer problems we deal with at work have to do w/ Mcafee in some form... Such as...? I have 4 networks running it, and none of them are having any issues with it. I am just interested in hearing what type of network you have and what these problems are. Are you running Novell, WinNT4 Domain, AD Domain, or some hybrid? Are you deploying prefab images that are old and then up[censored] them one at a time? How are you managing these installations? If you were ever using 5.x, then you were mixing the consumer level product with the commercial level one, and that's a major mistake with any product.

Quote: The problem w/ the 4.x and 5.x is that ppl that don't know what they're doing roll out the software w/ just the bare minimum scanning and heuristics disabled. Well, when people don't know what they are doing try to install software (or do anything for that matter), it isn't the fault of the software for not being able to catch everything the idiot does or does not do. As for rolling out that many machines, if you don't have any sort of management software already (like SMS, Tivoli, etc) and your license permits, then install ePolicy Orchestrator and push the monitoring clients out on a test domain. I think you'll change your mind about the mgmt functionality of McAfee products. You will also be able to run out-of-the-box reports on engine and dat versions and get graphical listings as to percentages affected by your current rollout. It can also track the virus definition levels of any Norton clients you may still have on your network and report on them as well, along with configure update tasks for them in the same manner that it can configure VirusScan/NetShield clients. Quote: It's a system hog though... I have a 486-66 20mb ram win95 POS computer at home. W/ mcafee 5.0, it didn't have enough free RAM to start IE 4.0 and bogged the system. Uninstalled it and put trusty Norton AV Corp 7.5, and runs just as fast as w/o a virus shield. The slowest machine we have running here is a P-133 w/32MB, and using the same config on it as I do the dual 1.5GHz Xeons w/1GB of RAM I just got in it runs fine. Of course, I managed to get the old 486s off of our asset list 2 years ago so I have none to test with...

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If you would look down a little further, you would also note that I mentioned I was using one of the freebie ones and got the hassles from it. I only brought up the consumer level ones because of the McAfee 5.x references from a previous post. Quote: They run on similar underpinnings, but the 5.x and 6.x versions are similar to the $hitty freebies (like the ones I have been fiddling with) with their awful GUIs and 5,000 wizards to get the most mundane task accomplished. But it was a nice try. As for the other comments, users can be either allowed or disallowed from disabled VirusScan as well. This is configured at installation (which can be done with a modified MSI file from McAfee Installation designer, or a template).

Here's one for "Free Space on Local Hard Drives" Quote: select distinct SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.LastLogonUserName, SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.DeviceID, SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.FileSystem, SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.Size, SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.FreeSpace from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK on SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.FileSystem != "CDFS" and SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.DeviceID < "H:" and SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.DeviceID >= "C:" order by SMS_R_System.Name "Install Date and Last Boot Time" (Boot Time can be skewed depending on update cycle of clients to site DB): Quote: select SMS_R_System.NetbiosName, SMS_R_System.LastLogonUserName, SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.LastBootUpTime, SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.InstallDate from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId order by SMS_R_System.NetbiosName "Windows 2000 Workstations by Service Pack" Quote: select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.IPAddresses, SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.CSDVersion, SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion, SMS_R_System.LastLogonUserName, SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.Version from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion like "Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 5.0" order by SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.CSDVersion As you can tell, these can be modified pretty easily to suit your needs (like changing the last one to look for NT4 workstations, or look for servers rather than workstation, etc). I have some others, and will post them or send them out to you in a bit. Also, do you have the SMS Resource Kit? That has some pretty nifty utilities in it.

DansData.com has a pretty good comparison on coolers in general, and it includes a few of the Zalman units in both modes: http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm HTH

It sounds like some of the nay-sayers here haven't actually configured or worked with a properly configured McAfee VirusScan/NetShield setup on a network. So, let's try addressing some of these seemingly valid points on this post: Quote: Reasons I hate Mcafee: 1. Does nothing to stop 99% of viruses out of the box (scans only .exe, .com, and .dll files) Hence the reason for this to be configured to begin with. This is done to limit the amount of scanning overhead when using "System Scan" which runs 24/7 in the background and scans everything the OS touches (including its own system files as it needs them). As I mentioned before, I use ePolicy Orchestrator, which was free with our 00 license on a 50 node network, and it will push installations and updates to anything I ask it to along with any configuration info as well. Quote: 2. Some Mcafee superdats tend to randomly break AV installations The first time this happened, it was a shock to everyone (including McAfee). What happened was the older engines were no longer compatible with the issued DATs (not SuperDATs) and required them to be updated by SuperDATs since they include engine updates. Since then, McAfee has posted clearly as to what the cutoff is for their engine version support. I will usually push out a SuperDAT once every 6 months while my regular DAT files update about once a week auto-magically. Quote: 3. Requires users to go to the web page, download, and install (which they of course never do)... which only worsens #1 So does Norton, not to mention that it uses this stupid wizard that prompts anybody that's logged on that it needs to be updated even though it's been told to get the damn updates on its own (I have 2 stations on a separate AD network here using it, and this is driving me nuts). Not to mention that the users can get tired of it, and just click cancel to make it go away. On the other hand, my McAfee setup works quietly in the background, and gets updates from a central server on my network. Also, if a machine is offline for some reason during a scheduled update, it will run the update task once it does come back online and will pick up the latest information so it's up to date as well. Quote: 4. Older versions (4.x) DO NOT uninstall properly. They leave registry keys and cues to start files that it deletes. Have to manually delete these before installing 5.x This relates more to the setup routines than anything else. And I would have to say that ANYONE here can point to many Symantec products that have screwed up systems by leaving registry keys and DLLs behind. By using MSI installers, this has been rendered a moot point anyway. Also, just so you know the commercial version of McAfee VirusScan is currently 4.5.1 for workstations while the consumer version is 6.x (I believe). They run on similar underpinnings, but the 5.x and 6.x versions are similar to the $hitty freebies (like the ones I have been fiddling with) with their awful GUIs and 5,000 wizards to get the most mundane task accomplished. Quote: 5. System hog The last Win9x system I setup using McAfee 4.5.1 with System Scan enabled still yielded 94-95% system resources free upon bootup. Not exactly a system hog, I would say. This goes back to configuration. Quote: 6. My work bought a ,000 license so we'll be dealing w/ this crap for a LONG time My condolences. Quote: Norton AV corporate is by far the best AV software! It scans aggressively out of the box, can easily be configured for automatic updates, automatic scanning, can be rolled out via the web, uses very little memory and resources, etc. Ditto all of that using the proper McAfee version for corporate usage (which I suspect that some of you have not). If Norton/Symantec stuff is your bag, then cool. I wanted to correct some of the statements that were made as I see them.

If you do what APK suggests here: http://www.ntcompatible.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=18303&highlight=messenger then it will no longer launch at all. Just a thought.

From reading the other posts here, it seems like you were the only one that thought of Outlook Express, since Thymios and Klark stated "Outlook". There might be a similar method to this for OE though, so if it's an issue just check the Technet KB (that's where I found this fix).

In Outlook, go to Tools>Options>Other and deselect the Instant Messaging checkbox. That will keep it from launching when Outlook launches. You can also disable MSN messenger from launching by editing the Group Policy of the machine (or domain if using AD). If you do so, then make SURE to uncheck that box in Outlook, or Outlook will wait for MSN messenger to time out (about 20 seconds) before actually opening when you launch it.

For me, it's always been a major pain dealing with any OS upgrade and using a Symantec product. When Win98 first came out, WinFax Pro kept hanging the system. I used a couple of versions of Norton Utilities, and they both had differing issues but the same conclusion: removal. What's that? PCAnywhere 9.1 is shown to be Win2K compliant? That's what the CD package reads, yet it crashed a system and would go into an endless loop at logon time because of a certain modification it would do to use NT account authentication. Of course, these are just the highlights of the many dealings I have had with their products. As for McAfee, network administration is awesome. I can either push custom installs from Installation Designer to the network using ePolicy Orchestrator, or use their premade SMS scripts for use with our Systems Management Server 2.0 system. Also, I control all other options and behaviors across varying versions of the application. But hey, that's just my experience with them...

I have a query that determines partition type and size. If you like, I can send some of my favorites out to you.

Autoplay and Autoinsert Notification used to be separate things in the Win9X OSs, but they seem to have been combined in XP which was why I posted my suggestion. Did you check to see if they were set to "Prompt user for action"?

Quote: I agree with everything that clutch said except for Mcafee. I prefer Norton Antivirus Corporate. MUCH BETTER. LOL, I won't mess with anything from Symantec. Too many bad experiences for me...

Quote: > What do you think of Viruses ? They are annoying. Quote: > Who create them ? Losers, and losers with too much time on their hands. Quote: > Is it really the truth: "Viruses are made by those who sell Anti-Virus programs and other security tools!" ???? To which extent ??? No, I don't find that to be the truth at all. But it does keep them in business, now doesn't it? Quote: > According to questions above, what is the best parade against Viruses, or, what is the best Anti-Virus ? Common sense is the absolute best, but it isn't listed. I prefer McAfee not only for its local client, but for its ePolicy Orchestrator management tool for networks of workstations and servers.

Open "My Computer", and then right click on the CD. Next, select the Autoplay tab and (if possible and desirable) click the "Reset Defaults" button. You could also specify the behaviors manually if you like. It sounds like the CD burner software just disabled Auto Insert Notification, and this is what I found on Technet to re-enable it in WinXP.

By spelling it "properly", you had it misspelled: http://www.kixtart.org

Another update to my system since I got my new memory today... [*]WinXP Pro [*]Intel P4 1.6A@2.13GHz (16x133MHz FSB) Northwood with stock heatsink and VCore (just got it) [*]Intel HSF [*]SOYO Dragon P4S Ultra rev 2A (SiS 645 Chipset) [*]1GB PC2700 (DDR333) Mushkin DDR-DRAM (Running in DDR333 Mode) [*]WD 100GB ATA-100 HD w/ 8MB Cache [*]Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive [*]Hercules Geforce 2 Pro, 64MB (Detonator 27.51) [*]Onboard C-Media 6-Channel Sound [*]Onboard SiS USB 2.0 with 5.25" Drivebay I/O [*]Onboard Highpoint UDMA/IDE RAID Controller (33/66/100/133) [*]Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron AG CRT) [*]MS Natural Keyboard Pro [*]MS Intellimouse Explorer [*]SanDisk USB Compact Flash Reader [*]Spacetec SpaceORB 6DOF Game Controller [/list:u]

I got this sent to me via email from a web dev friend of mine (who got it from someone else, and so on), so I thought I would pass it along to you guys. Here is what it looks like active: www.driventechnologies.com/coolstuff/clock.htm Might be kind of neat to use it with a dashboard if the mouse trailing portion was removed. Have fun with it.

I don't know, as I haven't checked their site out much yet. Here's their link though: http://www.zalmantech.com

First, here's the material I was mentioning: http://www.coolerguys.com/cpucool/dynamat.shtml You can get this at most places that sell decent car audio equipment. Next we have a better HSF option: http://www.coolerguys.com/cpucool/P4.shtml Check out the Zalman cooling units, as they use a much larger fan (which is mentioned earlier, tends to spin slow and make less noise) to produce effective cooling. I am thinking of going this route for my P4 myself because of the 6000RPM Delta unit I have on my P3.