With a number of recent malware infections spreading through the means of social engineering and infected USB drives, there are a few methods available to protect yourself. The most common way that organizations have been protecting themselves from this rising threat is through Group Policy and disabling the autorun/autoplay features of Windows. This makes it a little less … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader X Now Available For Download and Tips on Deploying
Despite Adobe's confusing claims earlier this week that Adobe Reader X (pronounced '10') and Acrobat X being available, the software just now became available for download. They just barely made their "within 30 days" promise from October 18th. You can download this latest version of Adobe Reader from the usual http://get.adobe.com/reader/ site. Unfortunately, the … [Read more...]
Deploying Camtasia Studio 7 with Group Policy
I previously documented how to deploy Camtasia Studio 6 with Group Policy and now it's been time to update to version 7 for my organization. There isn't really much of a trick required for the actual deployment of Camtasia. TechSmith provides the installer in the form of a .msi file and it works perfectly well to just deploy that file and have it installed on your client … [Read more...]
Set Windows File Type Associations With assoc Command
Last week was a bit more stressful than it should have been. A problem arose for some computers which tried opening RealPlayer .ram files unsuccessfully with VLC after it had updated. The computers used to use Real Alternative to open .ram files, which opened them successfully, and I needed to switch them back to doing so. I tried changing the File Type extension through Folder … [Read more...]
Is it Possible to Live by Best Practices?
If there can be Christmas in July then I guess another round of New Years' resolutions in August isn't too far off. For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to live by best practices in a few key areas: following the principle of least privilege, using strong passwords that aren't reused across multiple sites, and using No-Script in my web browser to protect against … [Read more...]