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Problem:

AVG is causing mass hysteria. After an update the program will not apply any new updates. I noticed this today and found this forum thread about it. Click here to read it.

Fix:

People are claiming (I have not verified) that if you get a manual update from grisoft, that it will fix the problem. I will check this very soon.

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Just a FYI. If you are doing a clean install on a Dell PowerEdge 2600 and you see an unknown device in the device manger that says: PE/PV 1×6 SCSI BP SCSI Processor Device.

That is your “Back Panel” SCSI controller. You can locate this on dell’s website under the category SCSI non-RAID Controllers

I already new wifi cards are not supported very heavily in the open source community but I didn’t let that get me down.I had a customer bring me their gateway laptop back when SUSE was on 10.1. It took me four hours to install it on that guys laptop with something called a ndiswrapper. The guy told me once the wrapper was installed then you could use a windows xp driver to install the wireless card. Like I said, four hours later and his wifi card was working.

Now, with this little run in I knew what a ndiswrapper was so I wasn’t going into this blindly, sort of? I loaded openSUSE 11 and tried to use madwifi to get the card to work. No luck. I switched over to Ubuntu 8.0 and I installed a ndiswrapper that a GUI and all I did was download the xp driver for the acer aspire 3100 off the UK website. I clicked the install driver for wifi card. Then I disabled the Atheros HAL driver rebooted and ubuntu was running wifi.

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I wanted to install Avira’s AntiVir free edition antivirus and when I ran the installer the file unzipped to a temp directory and then a error comes up on the screen. “Cannot install AntiVir because its already installed on this system”.
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From my last post you all know that AVG 8 is not what it used to be. After uninstalling AVG 8 it left the firefox plugins behind. This wouldn’t let me install or uninstall any other add-ons. I started firefox in safe-mode. You can do this by going to start then to mozilla firefox and clicking on safe mode. I then chose to disable all add-ons before launching firefox 3. I got to the add-ons screen and unistall and disabled the AVG add-ons. Then I restarted firefox and all my plugins started to install correctly. Just a heads up.

I’ve been saying this for a while, if a antivirus company starts to become successful its only a matter of time before it’s effectiveness is depleted or functionality is lost.

In the last week, I’ve either had to use different antivirus programs due to fact that certain aspects of the new AVG 8.0 will not work.

First Computer:
AVG 8.0 will not work if you have an out dated version of Roxio on your computer. I’ve tried to uninstall Roxio and clean up the registry, but the AVG installer reports that Roxio is still installed on the computer. Since I knew Roxio was gone, I installed AVG. After I rebooted the update service that keeps AVG running would not work, and you did not have the ability to do a full system scan. I had to take it off and I put Bitdefender on the system.

Second Computer:

After removing Roxio from another computer and AVG actually acknowledged that it was uninstalled, so I went ahead with the installation. Everything went great till i rebooted and went to do the updates. Now, pay attention to this: AVG installs some type of network service that hosed up the internet connection and there was not way for me to get around it. I justed uninstalled AVG again and put AntiVir on the system.

It’s like I said as soon as a software company starts with the glossy button and the fancy user interface all hope is lost. AVG use to be as simple as install and walk away, but now I fear that Grisoft has fallen in the path that Norton and McAfee chose to take.

Acronis has done it again. I’ve wrote about their past achievement with Universal Restore, now they have a software that will simplify backing up your Exchange server. It’s still in Beta phase, but looks very promising. If anyone is a beta tester for this product, I would love to know how it performs.

Here is their description of the product:

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange includes features that make it easy for anyone to create and implement a Disaster Recovery plan for their email, including:

Easy-to-use, centralized Management Console auto-discovers all Exchange Servers on your network, providing status and other information on disaster recovery progress from one central location.

Automatically create Disaster Recovery Plans that analyze your backup needs and present intuitive information to assist even non-administrators determine the best disaster recovery strategy.

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange includes features that give you the flexibility in implementing your Disaster Recovery plan, including:

Flexible backup options enable you to choose whether you want to backup the entire database, specific users’ mailboxes, or mailboxes based on criteria you provide. For example, you can choose to create a “brick-level” mailbox backup for the company executives.

A full range of recovery options enable you to recover data from the last known archive, a particular point-in-time, or from the Exchange server’s point-of-failure.

Granular recovery helps you restore specific emails or mailboxes, regardless of whether you have backed up the entire Exchange database, or only created “brick-level” backups of specific information.

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange includes features that give you unparalleled reliability in implementing your Disaster Recovery plan, including:

Exchange Dial-Tone support, giving you even more flexibility and reliability in backing up and restoring your Exchange database.

Flexible storage options let you choose where your archives are automatically copied, be it on a local hard drive, network share, FTP server, or other external device.

AES industry standard encryption protects your company’s most valuable data ensuring that your organization’s private information is safe and secure.

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange will be available in April 2008, and will support Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, or later, running on Windows 2000 Server, or later.

I’ve never seen Godaddy.com go down as long as they did last night, but my server is back up this morning. I have no idea what they were doing. But in my attempt to investigate the problem. I navigated my Firefox 3 beta 5 to the Godaddy site, and as soon as I Iogged in Firefox would crash. I’m not sure what is causing it, but it sure is annoying.

BTW: Godaddy did post a notice that they were having technical difficulties last night.

This was brought in today…Check out this keyboard! I have no idea how long the cigarette was left on this keyboard.
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