A replacement for Jasc Image Robot?
DaleHad an email recently from a reader I found your page on Google (Jasc Image Robot - October 2009) and was just wondering if you still have Image Robot or…
“Have you ever noticed that pictures that have been synced into an iPod, an iPhone or an iPad cannot be accessed nor copied back to a computer?”
Or if you delete files on your computer by mistake, and want to retrieve your backup copy from your iPhone/iPad, you find you can’t. A little program called DiskAid will…
Can’t find script engine “VBScript” for script
A user reported the following issue on Windows 7: As it turns out, the user had deleted the McAfee Anti-virus program directory. No mean feat in itself. Which in turn…
What to put in a script to check anti-virus program healthiness
The sort of checks you might want to put into a “PC Health Check” script, for anti-virus program healthiness is as follows CA eTrust vet.dat has a recent* modified/created date.…
The eTrust SigCheck.exe utility
CA eTrust has a utility called “SigCheck.exe”. It’s purpose is to display the current version of the eTrust anti-virus definition which is on the local PC. From a command line,…
eTrust command line utilities
asutil.exe Imports subnet information into the ITM Server database. compver.exe Displays the version of all installed components. eavdisc.exe Causes a “free election” discovery to occur on the local subnet. eAVreprt.exe…
So you’re missing the MSI source package
It is one of the great annoyances with Roaming Profiles and MSI-based installs, that if you reformat your PC, you can lose the link to your MSI package. Here’s today’s…
“I recommend we build a tracking database”
I am always reminded of this Dilbert cartoon whenever a customer has a large complex problem at work, and some genius suggests “We’ll build a database”. Or frequently, we’ll implement…
How to select a good anti-virus product
Well, if you didn’t receive emails with viruii attached, or surf to “dubious” websites, you wouldn’t get infected. For the rest of us, we would be looking at either Microsoft…
Disabling Adobe Flash Player updates
Fast on the feels of the Acrobat Reader post I wrote, Flash Player decided to start annoying the users with Arghhhhhhhh! Adobe has a “new” method to disable auto updates.…