Spam Capture Rate of greater than 99% with Zero False Positives Earns Top Anti-Spam Rating Boston, MA and Galway, Ireland- December xx, 2007 - SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, today announces that West Coast Labs has awarded the Checkmark Premium Anti-Spam Certification for its VMware email solution. This highest ranking certification further supports SpamTitan's success in providing the most complete accuracy and security from email threats, including SPAM, viruses, Trojans, Phishing, Malware and other unwanted content in its class at a cost effective price. SpamTitan's VMWare and ISO version can be downloaded for a free trial at www.spamtitan.com. Evaluating SpamTitan, as one of a small group of VMware Certified Appliances globally, West Coast Labs uncovered that SpamTitan's VMware virtual appliance proved incredibly easy to install, manage, test, and backup. By achieving a greater than 99% accuracy rating for spam flitration with zero false positives, West Coast Labs could successfully block close to all spam while ensuring legitimate emails would not blocked or lost using the SpamTitan™ for VMware solution. Significant advantages include improved ease of use in the evaluation and testing process, while noting real gains to business users, in terms of potential redundancy, backup, scalability, and mobility improvements. "This Checkmark PREMIUM rating is a testament to our commitment in providing the power, performance and usability that our customers need in the fight against the growing spam problem," stated Ronan Kavanagh, SpamTitan President and CEO. "We are extremely pleased that an independent testing lab further validates SpamTitan's effectiveness as we have always excelled at providing new performance functionality, optimized spam filtration, and an ease of use and scaleability that is unique in the market." West Coast Labs has been able to conclude through real-world testing that the SpamTitan solution successfully
If you are interested to evaluate Hyper-V, new virtualization technology available in Windows Server 2008, you could download a release candidate from Microsoft Download site. Here is a direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=8f22f69e-d1af-49f0-8236-2b742b354919&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f1%2f5%2f7%2f157cc83e-9fa8-45b6-939b-dab2e82b7221%2f6001.17119.071210-1916_amd64fre_Server_en-us-KR1SXFRE_EN_DVD.iso This is 64 bit version of Windows Server 2008 RC1 Enterprise with Hyper-V Beta.
The 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1 delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. This service pack also includes all of the updates released for the 2007 Office suite prior to December of 2007. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 936982: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1.Service Pack 1 will install even if a publicly available update has already been installed on your computer.SP1 also includes stability improvements developed as a result of user input from the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis and from Microsoft Product Support feedback. Download URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=9ec51594-992c-4165-a997-25da01f388f5&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f0%2f8%2f1%2f08186057-e110-49fb-b455-17899cf082d8%2foffice2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Raleigh, N.C., US, 7 December, 2007 – Nearly half of small companies in the United States believe that employees with a better knowledge of security issues and the part they play in a company's IT set-up would help to improve network security, a new survey shows, while one in four say that even management should be more aware of security issues and threats. A survey of 455 IT executives in small and medium sized businesses in the US found that 48% said that awareness on security issues among employees – the 'weakest link' – was a key factor that could lead to better overall security. The research carried out by polling company eMediaUSA on behalf of GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software, found that employees are not the only people who need to be 'educated'. One in four IT executives want senior management to have a better understanding of security issues as this could have a bearing on the overall level of network security and, possibly, the range of security measures that could be implemented. Only 10% of SMBs said they would need more human resources while 12% said network security would improve if they had larger budgets. The survey shows that 4 in 10 SMBs said their networks were not secure enough, with email viruses the major security threat. When asked what their major daily concerns are, 71% of respondents cited downtime and tackling security issues while 51% said user support was a daily concern. According to Andre Muscat, Director of Engineering at GFI Software, these results highlight the growing effect that employees could have on a company's security: "Computer users can be considered as the least predictable and controlled security vulnerability. In the majority of cases, a lack of education and an understanding of basic security principles and procedures are the main causes of security breaches rather than malicious activity – a
A blocking tool is available for organizations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update. This tool can be used with: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (valid through March, 2008) Windows XP Service Pack 3 (valid for 12 months following general availability) Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid for 12 months following general availability) This toolkit contains three components. All of them function primarily to set or clear a specific registry key that is used to detect and block download of Service Packs from Windows Update. You only need to use the component which best serves your organization's computer management infrastructure. A Microsoft-signed executable A script An ADM template The executable creates a registry key on the computer on which it is run that blocks or unblocks (depending on the command-line option used) the delivery of a Service Pack to that computer through Windows Update. The key used is HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate. When the '/B' command line option is used, the key value name 'DoNotAllowSP' is created and its value set to 1. This value blocks delivery of a Service Pack to the computer through Automatic Update or Windows Update. When the '/U' command line option is used, the previously created registry value that temporarily blocked the delivery of a Service Pack to the computer through Automatic Update or Windows Update is removed. If the value does not exist on the computer on which it is run, no action is taken. The script does the same thing as the executable, but allows you to specify the remote machine name on which to block or unblock delivery of Service Packs. Note that the executable and script have been tested only as a command-line tool and not in conjunction with other systems management tools or remote execution mechanisms. The ADM template allows administrators to import group policy settings to block or unblock delivery of Service Pa