Monthly Archives: September 2009
28/09/09 IRS Spam drains millions daily from victims
A recent spam campaign that pretends to be from the IRS is playing on people’s fear of the tax man to propagate malware. The email has a subject line that reads, “Notice of Underreported Income” and requires the victim to either install the Trojan attachment or click on a Web link in order to view [...]
Tags: AE, Anti-Executable, Anti-Virus, AV, Deep Freeze, email, Malware, spam, Trojan, white list, whitelisting
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16/09/09 Unlicensed software has huge cost
The Business Software Alliance settled with 12 Canadian companies who were caught using unlicensed copies of software on their computers. A link to one article about this is here. According to that article, Michael Murphy of BSA Canada said, “These settlements demonstrate that even well-managed organizations need to pay careful attention to software licensing requirements.” [...]
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03/09/09 Deep Freeze (beta) for Windows 7 available
As discussed on previous posts (Windows 7 RTM and What about Windows 7 support?), we now have a beta version of Deep Freeze available that is compatible with Windows 7. It is available to all customers (who have a current Maintenance agreement) at Faronics Labs. Please check it out and let us know your experiences. [...]
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02/09/09 The letters D and F and the number 7
Exciting news coming tomorrow, brought to you by the letters D and F and the number 7. Stay tuned.
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02/09/09 New contributors coming soon
Some of our Product Managers have requested the ability to post on the blog, so expect to hear from a few new voices soon. This is exciting because it should increase the frequency of new posts, add fresh perspectives, and provide you with more information. On a side note, no our Product Management functions are [...]
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