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I use Avast here. It is however possible to get a licence of McAffee for free (I'm happy with Avast though). It's supposedly exclusively for natwest customers, but there isn't any checking. Just go to http://www.nwolb.com, when you get the logon screen, click "Logout" in the top right hand corner, and then on the "special offers" page which loads, scroll down the bottom to the free McAffee offer, you should then be redirected to a cobranded section of the McAffee website.

I believe the run folder has to exist, even if it's empty. Would a VBScript to remove all entries work better?

You could use javascript to get the transparency in IE6 if you wanted: function correctPNG() // correctly handle PNG transparency in Win IE 5.5 & 6. { var arVersion = navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE") var version = parseFloat(arVersion[1]) if ((version >= 5.5) && (document.body.filters)) { for(var i=0; i { var img = document.images[i] var imgName = img.src.toUpperCase() if (imgName.substring(imgName.length-3, imgName.length) == "PNG") { var imgID = (img.id) ? "id='" + img.id + "' " : "" var imgClass = (img.className) ? "class='" + img.className + "' " : "" var imgTitle = (img.title) ? "title='" + img.title + "' " : "title='" + img.alt + "' " var imgStyle = "display:inline-block;" + img.style.cssText if (img.align == "left") imgStyle = "float:left;" + imgStyle if (img.align == "right") imgStyle = "float:right;" + imgStyle if (img.parentElement.href) imgStyle = "cursor:hand;" + imgStyle var strNewHTML = " + " style=\"" + "width:" + img.width + "px; height:" + img.height + "px;" + imgStyle + ";" + "filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader" + "(src=\'" + img.src + "\', sizingMethod='scale');\">" img.outerHTML = strNewHTML i = i-1 } } } } window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG); Save that as "iepngfix.js" and then reference it in your pages with

Last year the head where I was in the Christmas assembly (in the local church) put the point across that it was CHRISTmas, and not "Winter Shopping Festival", and that people should remember that. It's a standard LEA school and the only church affiliation they have is a Christian Union. Also, my Hindu mate and his family celebrate Christmas, and my Muslim mate and his family celebrate Christmas - so to hell with this political correct-ness nonsense and set the desktop to be a nativity scene!

Find a way of justifying 2 8800GTXs! The guy who does the Ctrl-Alt-Del webcomic has 2 in his machine, setup in SLI. And I think he may have managed to justify them as a business expense . A mate of mine spent around £250 on an 8800GT, which was nearly half his computer budget! Colin McRae DiRT lists the 8800 in the minimum system requirements!

if you can modify the URLs as they go through, add &safe=vss to the Google Image Searches, that's what E2BN do (using DansGuardian), and that seems to work really well at blocking things like that. It's an undocumented feature of the image search, and has resulted in Google being enforced as the only image search allowed.

Firstly you will have to see what the firewall settings on your internet connection are like, and whether or not they will open the relevant ports upstream (if you're with an RBC). If you've set up Terminal Services, then I'm assuming you want the staff to logon to that for their remote access, so you would need to get the ports for that opened on the firewall, and then it would just be a case of teachers going into Start>All Programs>Accessories>Communications>Remote Desktop and entering the internet IP of the school. However I don't think this allows for encrypted passwords, so they would be running unencrypted across the internet, which is not good for viewing confidential documents. We had a VPN (using Windows IAS) for technicians, and WebDav for everyone else, so they could access their my documents folder through that.

If you got an open source GINA dll, then you could integrate it into that to do the lookups and apply the relevant policy - and then it isn't running in userland.

Then try to hack it so you can send rude emails to your mates Failing that, see what they blocked that you don't!

You can leave the package in the GPO. If you remove the package, I'm pretty sure it will be removed from the machines. What I did was make a new GPO for each piece of software, which just installed that piece of software, so deploying and removing as as easy as adding or removing that specific GPO from a computer, and I could do it across OUs.

Regarding startcom SSL certificates - the CA is trusted in all browsers apart from IE at the moment. I've used them before, and it's simply a case of filling out the form, then pasting in the output from the IIS certification wizard, and receiving email at an administrative email address for your domain with an authentication link to get the certificate.

I read somewhere about a guy who took a remote control car, strapped a wireless router with OpenWRT on it, and modified it to receive commands sent through a shell on the router. It used quite a bit of battery power (he modified the router to use batteries as well) - but it would be pretty cool, especially if you did a web front end for it!

Alternatively acrylic will do the job - if it's the right thickness the kids can't punch through it

psexec the browser, followed by http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=I+love+barbie or depending on your web filter, something else :twisted: Alternatively, watch their PC with VNC or similar, and just as they go to click something, move the mouse. If you do it subtly enough, they won't realise. You could also shutdown their PC (shutdown.exe -m \\computername -s -f -t 0 works best for me!) 5 minutes before the end of the lesson. A fake BSoD is always good, if you don't have IE7, do one in HTML, then you can launch the window full screen (with some javascript), with a custom cursor which is transparent and set it as their home page! Setting the BSoD error message to TOO_MUCH_PORN is an optional extra :twisted:

SQL issues?

And I'd say you ought to install a copy on your workstation so that you can ensure it works on the network (assuming it's a site licence)

If you don't mind running a Linux box, Squid and Dansguardian (open source and developed by one of the guys at Smoothwall) are very effective once you set it up right. I've run it, and apart from the odd false positive Dansguardian is excellent. It's also relatively simple to install if you choose Ubuntu or another distribution and have the GUI with it. I believe Smoothwall express also has Dansguardian on it, and might be slightly easier to configure, however I haven't used Smoothwall express yet. Edit: Apeo beat me to it!

I find phoning to be quite helpful. Unless it's BT. I'm glad they're not my ISP any more - took about 2 hours of jumping through faults to get an engineer out - it was faulty wiring. I've also had non Tech Support encounters with BT. It's enough to make you choose Virgin (if they do your area!)

Probably the Itunes software isn't fully compatible with Vista 64-bit. A friend of mine has installed Vista 64-bit and has an ipod, so I'll see if I can get him to investigate. Has your friend tried running it in compatibility mode? Or possibly 32-bit mode (I believe there's a 32 bit emulator).

Also, using GP to prevent unknown files from being executed from anything other than C: should help, as they can't run anything from their usb sticks then.

In that case blocking port 80 on your firewall (the gateway) for everything but the proxy, as Geoff suggested should do the trick. What proxy server do you have?

That IP belongs to Google: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=72.14.233.81 Try flushing your DNS cache. It's possible the cluster you're connecting to is down!

Did that to a prolific offender once, or rather copied it to my desktop. Took me half a day to "recover it from backups". They're still quite bad at leaving it logged in or switched on, but they have got a bit better. I think it might be LART time!

AV auto updates. Windows auto updates. Office auto updates. I usually reimage my machines once every 3 or so months, as it's quicker than doing a defrag or anything like that! I do disk cleanups on the server whenever it needs it. The webroot is usually the folder which gets the most clogged up and needs a good tidy. The machines don't get too dusty inside, so usually just get a clean when I open them to do work on them. Any hardware changes are when needed usually. I guess a yearly checkup might be a better idea.

Does that mean that we can't use the year 2012? Are they going to have to publish calendars with the year 2011+1?