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Welcome to the future for Christian Dunn.
This is my new community for my software, development and services.
Christian specialises in translating complex business requirements into technical solutions. With a degree in Science Communications and over 10 years experience in IT solutions, implementation, training, troubleshooting and software development he has developed a skill set designed to help any business maximise the potential of their IT spend through developing practical affordable solutions. This includes a range of commercial and free small business applications available through this website.
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Is this the end of PC Anywhere?
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In 2006 the source code to a number of popular Symantec software titles was stolen. This included applications such as Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, Norton Utilities, Norton GoBack and PC Anywhere.
Symantec had previously advised the risk from this theft was low as long as customers were using the latest versions of their software as updates to most of these applications has now overcome any risk.
This week however Symantec released an announcement indicating the problem was more serious than they were first aware and advising customers. The announcement came after a hacker called YamaTough released the source code to Norton Utilities and threatened to publish its anti-virus programs.
The application of real concern to Symantec now is PC Anywhere. As this is a remote access tool for users computers, losing the source code puts the network at risk as an understanding of how the software works would allow a hacker to hijack users computers. Even though the threat is a few years old, the underlying platform of PC Anywhere still has some common features. As a result Symantec has now advised all users to temporarily stop using the product until it releases an update to resolve the issue. This is a major step for a company, as rarely do vendors recommend totally disabling their products.
With fewer than 50,000 users of PC Anywhere, Symantec is not worried but this indicates the amount of trust we put in vendors to supply secure software and the risks a minor mistake or incident can lead to. At least they told us.
WyMI released from the labs
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WyMI is a Systems Administrators best friend. A computer auditing tool that uses WMI to provide an easy ability to search and retrieve important information about your system
WyMI requires no installation and no special configuration. Data is captured and refreshed at specified intervals. This can be stopped and a snapshot exported to CSV that wil be automatically opened in the default program (usually Excel).
WyMI can report on:
- BIOS
- Computer
- Desktop
- Environment Variables
- Find Computers
- Logical Drives
- Motherboard
- Network Adapters
- Operating System
- Physical Drives
- Physical Memory
- Print Jobs
- Printers
- Processes
- Processor
- Routing Table
- Services
- Shares
- Timezone
- User Accounts
- Video
Did I mention it's FREE?
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