And now for a kick in the Antivirals

Sometimes you have to uninstall an AV product, here is the McAfee removal process.

McAfee
McAfee Manual removal

Handling Suspected Spam Emails

You may have to release a suspect email from your spam filtering system and attach this to an email addressed to the trusted company, meaning the company the email is trying to rip off!! So be careful, keep the AV up to date!!!

So...I'm now going to start of a list...

PayPal = spoof@paypal.co.uk
How do I know I have a genuine PayPal email?



SNORT Intrusion Detection System

Windows OS Patching

Server 2008R2 Service Pack Failure
Nothing worse than working late and a goddam server fails to install the Service Pack.
Found a fix....

SP Install Failure

Windows System Update Service (WSUS)
One of my colleagues was having a real pain getting WSUS to work.
He found this link which is pretty good so I nabbed it to put on my blog.....the issue was with imaged PCs not reporting in.

WSUS and Imaged PCs

other wsus commands that are usefull....

wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization
wuauclt.exe /detectnow
wuauclt.exe /reportnow

Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
This service needs to run on wsus clients for successful OS and App security patching.
Sometimes it fails....I found this to be a cracking link...

BITS-Fix

I found this command pulled me out the fire from the above link...

sc sdset bits D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;PU)