ESET Smart Security v4.0 and NOD32 v4.0

ESET Smart Security v4.0 and NOD32 v4.0 are being released shortly.

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The changes that have been made are:

General

Added support for SSL under Microsoft Windows 2000
Improved support for Microsoft Windows Live Mail v4 (beta)
Added import and export of root SSL certificates for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera Software Opera web browsers
Added ability to edit user-defined servers for threat signature updates
Added "Smart Filtering" of logs to provide improved view of data

Antivirus & Antispyware

Exclusions now supported for mapped network drives
Added "Smart Scan" option for quick and effective scans

ESET Personal Firewall

Added support for UAC under Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
Added 1863/TCP for Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger for Rules under Local Settings

Comments

Resolve WSUS Server issue that gives "Cannot save configuration because the server is still processing"

This is a pretty infuriating error and can sometimes crop up as a result of running a "wsusutil reset" command. First of all, give the server some time, and then a bit more... but you've probably already done this. These steps may help to resolve the situation: - Install Microsoft SQL Management Studio (free download) - Run SQL Management Studio and start to connect to the WSUS database - Enter this in the "Server Name" box: \\.\pipe\MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query - Expand the "Databases" tree - Right-click on "SUSDB" and choose "New Query" - Paste this query in: UPDATE tbSingletonData SET ResetStateMachineNeeded = 0 - You should see a message like "1 row affected", which is good - Quit SQL Management Studio - Open "Services" and restart the "WSUS Service" - Now, open WSUS

Where are SCANPST.EXE and/or SCANOST.EXE?

I sometimes have to deal with customer computers whose Outlook PST or OST files have become corrupted. Very often the fix is to run SCANPST.EXE on the offending PST/OST file. However, every time I go to do this I forget where the two executable files are. Here is where they are on a Vista machine running Office 2007: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 I hope this helps.

DNS Dynamic Updates & DNS Scavenging

I was encountering an issue at a customer's site where the DNS records of their client PCs often would be behind or out of sync with the records in DHCP. Usually the IP address would be older in DNS and this was causing issues with scripts executing and network tools correctly resolving client PC hostnames to their correct IP addresses. I realised I needed to make some changes to their dynamic DNS updating configuration. After a lot of reading through Microsoft's documentation and various online forums, this is what I ended up configuring. Hopefully this may help someone, some day: - Make the DHCP server a member of the "DnsUpdateProxy" group - Create a new user account, in the "Users" OU, called "dnsdynamicupdates" - This new user only needs to be a member of the "Domain Users" group - no special privileges - Make the password strong and set it to never expire - Set this new user as the credentials used by the DCHP server in IPv4...

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