[dba-Tech] Security measures

The only problem I've found with a windows update was with win2k SP3
creating DCOM errors on older systems... By older, I mean high end p2's and
low end p3's. I had to rebuild a couple of them, so gave up installing it on
them at work. I tried SP4 on a pc I was building for my brother at home, and
it worked, so they appear to have corrected the error. But that's been it...

Although I have noticed that since I installed the Lovsan patch last week,
on more than a few pc's the Internet Explorer icon has disappeared from the
desktop... Any ideas???


Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: 27 August 2003 23:20
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Security measures


It's strange that so many people report problems with Windows updates.  I
have 4 computers - an OLD dual Pentium II 233, a "newer" Toshiba laptop PII
233, and two ~2 year old "modern" computers (1.4g AMD Athlon - "homebuilt").
I run windows update religiously and have never had a problem on any of
them.  Win2K Pro, Office 97/2k/XP, NAV, etc.

Further I was the Sys Admin for the screw company and regularly updated
their ~12 computers - Gateway / Dell.  Always just applied all SPs, updates.
Always worked.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:17 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures


Steven W. Erbach wrote:
<snip>
> VERY good advice. I use Norton Ghost on a regular basis though I have
never
> needed to make the Ghosted drive the main drive due to a failure of 
> the primary. I assume that all that needs to be done is for the 
> master/slave jumpers to be moved around and you're back in business, 
> right?

I create images not ghost to a mirror drive... the diffrence is you can
(depending on the amount of data on your main hdd) have 2-3 or more images
on one hdd... I've got an old 300mb Original image for win2k w/ nothing
loaded except the SP2 patch and Office 2000.  It's quite a bit easier this
way cuz you can just take your corrupted OS dump the image on it placing you
back before the patch was installed.  Windows Update unfortunately loads a
whole lotta stuff that more often than not breaks your stable OS.

>>>Mozilla Thunderbird <<
>
>
> You're one of quite a number of people that have said that OE and 
> Outlook are to be avoided. Thanks for the input.

I was a DIE hard OE user until very recently... I have never liked Outlook
because it causes system instability and that's when it's working right!...
The main reason that I always stuck w/OE was because I liked the integration
between it and Hotmail, but have recently been introduced w/ a little
program called Hotmail Popper (www.boolean.ca) it's very neat... you can now
use ANY email program to access your hotmail account, and it's free.. and
works.. so far so good at least.. I've been using ThunderMail full time now
for almost a week and find that all the features I liked in OE are better in
Tbird.  PLUS now I use mailwasher less because Tbird has built in Junk Mail
detection... so far no false positives.
--
-Francisco

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