September 23, 2004

Smooth Traveling

Just rolled out Symantec's Corporate version 9 and updated the clients across the network. It has been a boon for removing spyware and malware missed by other programs, in addition to the anti-virus standby. Next I will play around with client firewalls, as a way of quarantining problematic workstations.

The installation process was straightfoward. It required removing the older managed version (7.6) from the server, rebooting, installing the newer version and pushing the updated client out to workstations. The only glitch occurred on some Win 2K clients when Outlook XP was launched, causing an error message to pop up reporting problems with the add-in file c:\Program Files\NavNT\vpmsece.dll . Handily the fix can be pushed through a logon script.

September 15, 2004

Election News

A friend just pointed out this cool new service from Lexis-Nexis: free presidential campaign news drawing from their wealth of sources.

September 03, 2004

Maryland to Use E-Voting

While the threats of electronic voting machines are real, a Anne Arundel County, MD judge ruled Maryland officials had taken all reasonable precautions in using electronic voting machines. Further, the judge stated electronic machines were more secure and less vulnerable than paper ballots. The ruling is being appealed.

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Spam Prevention

Like a lot of MT bloggers, I've had more than a few annoying spam hits, and am now trying the quick code security fix from James Seng's blog. Let's see how this goes for a bit

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