FROM THE IGLOO

Here’s an interesting article from Larry Dignan, one of the editors at ZDNet. Apparently his computer was overtaken by Antivirus Pro 2009 – a vicious piece of malware. It takes over your computer, hijacks Internet Explorer and inundates you with porn popups forcing you to register the software. Larry had McAfee AV installed on his [...]

Last year midsized companies spent a total of $17.2 billion fixing IT security incidents according to new research out this week from McAfee. McAfee recently had MSI International surveyed 900 companies with between 51 and 1,000 employees to find that in the past year a single midsized organization lost $43,000 on average due to security [...]

We have had some people asking questions about Wake On LAN in our products lately, and I thought that a quick post regarding what we are doing in the different products might be helpful to clear up some of the mystery surrounding Wake on LAN in our software. A lot of people see it as [...]

I have seen a number of people emailing  us asking about if we will be supporting the 64 bit version of Windows 7 with Deep Freeze. It’s looking like more and more people are eyeing installing a 64 bit OS for the first time so I can understand the question. YES Deep Freeze supports 64 [...]

“Is it out yet? Is it out yet? Is it out yet?” That is what I have been asking our Dev and QA teams for the past couple of days. I’ve been driving them crazy… They came through! Deep Freeze Standard and Enterprise v6.61 is now available. Customers with current Maintenance can download it and [...]

I have some time to kill before I can post an exciting announcement here, so I’ll tell a quick story. My MacBook Pro 17″ unibody withstood some abuse last night very well. Specifically, my 45 pound son stood and then jumped on it. No damage whatsoever was done. However, I have to say: don’t try [...]

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.” [...]

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. [...]

I got a note today from one of our customers pointing us to the following URL: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55572 While this tool will let you build a regular expression for filtering a specific IP range, there are some other pages on Google’s site that give a nice overview of Regular Expressions that can be applied to our [...]