Evan Barash – November 13, 2009 @ 5:41PM
Hard Drive Cleanup Tools
If you've ever decided to do some periodic housekeeping on your computer, you may have noticed that the default Windows (or Mac) toolset doesn't make it easy to figure out which folders or files are taking up the most space. You can see how much free space you have left on the drive, and you can even do a hard-drive cleanup, but how can you visually see your hard drive and all its contents? The answer lies in two programs that will …
Evan Barash – September 30, 2009 @ 3:21PM
The Real Cost of a PC Breakdown - The Fallout
So what is the real cost of Maggie’s minor incident which eat up her entire day? The Nitty Gritty Numbers Maggie earns, with benefits, $65K for the year. An average month has 22 workdays, minus 10 days for two weeks vacation, 5 days for personal time and 12 days for holidays throughout the year. So it’s 264 - 27 = 237 days. If Maggie has been there long enough, she gets more than two weeks vacation. But for this case let’s …
Evan Barash – September 30, 2009 @ 2:49PM
Inserting Dummy Text in Word 2007 Documents
For all you style swashbuckling, graphic designing, desktop publishing gurus out there, here's a handy tool built into Word 2007 that allows you to insert dummy latin text into your document. Here's the syntax: Simply type the following and press Enter where you want the text to appear in your document: =lorem(x,y) X is the number of paragraphs you wish to insert Y is the number of sentences in each paragraph. NOTE: =lorem(x) will generate X paragraphs each with 3 sentences …
Mike Drillinger – September 23, 2009 @ 10:21AM
What I Like About My Allworx Phone System
We have a large medical facility client in Brooklyn who has an Allworx 24X, a PRI we provided, 60 phones, a remote location and several remote users. I asked the Director of Clinical Operations what she likes about the Allworx and here's what she said: I like the park feature – that you can park a call and pick it up anywhere I like that I can transfer a call directly to voicemail so if the intended party is not at …
Evan Barash – September 18, 2009 @ 5:16PM
A PDF Converter for Office 2007
Yup. You read that title right. Its free and its from Microsoft. Exclusively for Office 2007 (AFAIK), the PDF/XPS Add-In allows Office '07 apps to create PDF files from the original documents. Sweet! A simple File -> Save As... is all it takes to publish your documents to PDF format. And what's really cool is the ability to choose the quality of your PDF (depending on if its for downloading/email or for high-quality printing). Download it!
Aug 31, 2009
Some exciting news for SCS has been the addition of Citiwide Harm Reduction to its client list. Administrative Coordinator Don Jones contacted us back in February for break / fix IT support of their exisiting Microsoft Windows network environment. Their network consists of 35+ workstations (an eclectic mix of Windows XP and Vista computers), multiple network printers, and one main file server spread out amongst three floors in a converted warehouse building in The Bronx. The Windows Small Business Server is running MS Exchange to handle all email duties.
Apr 14, 2009
Conficker C trojan has been causing worldwide panic and fear due to its April 1st "attack" date. Whether your machine crashed that day or not, the virus is a major pain for us Windows users. As part of a large-scaled effort to find the programmer(s) responsible, Microsoft has issue a $250K bounty. They've also released a tool that should be able to detect most variants of the Conficker C worm.
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Feb 18, 2009
its been a long road, but we're finally nearing the end of a great journey. Yes, the new SCS website will finally launch during the last week of February and incorporates some great new features such as a blog, an updated and redesigned portfolio of work.
- Downadup/Conficker worm
First version of this worm is known from december 2008. Nowadays it has 300+ several variants. More information could be found in Virus Lab Blog.
- I-Worm/Nuwar
Propagation method of new Nuwar variant is still similar to its precedessors. Spammed mails with link in IP format directs users to the worm web pages where the users are prompted to download one of the worm files with the name funny.exe. Names of other downloadable files are kickme.exe and foolsday.exe. AVG detects this threat as I-Worm/Nuwar.R.
- I-Worm/Nuwar
New Nuwar variant spreading method is similar to Nuwar.L last month propagation. Spammed emails are brief containing link in IP format to currently working pages with worm. Compromised page code is changed and and as a result user is prompted to download file with worm. Downloaded filename is valentine.exe it's about 110 - 130kB long and it's detected by AVG as I-Worm/Nuwar.N
- I-Worm/Nuwar
We have a new wave of spammed mail messages containing link directing users to website where the worm could be downloaded. Emails contains short text and IP address of currently working pages with worm. In this case downloaded filename is withlove.exe and it's about 115kB in size. Websites and worm files changes every few minutes. AVG detects withlove.exe as I-Worm/Nuwar.L.
- Win32/Mabezat.A
In last few days we`ve registered a larger amount of PE files infected by this virus. Win32/Mabezat is polymorphic file infector which infects PE files. More information could be found in our Virus Encyclopedia.
- Downloader.Tibs
A new Downloader.Tibs variant is spreading today thanks to massive spamming. Infected emails contains about 130-140kB long attachment, usually with name happy2008.exe, which is trojan horse itself. There are also emails with links directing users to a malicious web pages. The files are already detected as Downloader.Tibs.
- Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZM
A new Trojan Downloader was spammed today. Trojan is attached in zip archive to emails in HTML format with subject "Hot game" and body text that claims some Angelina Jolie or Lara Croft undressing game. xgame.zip attachment contains xgame.exe (20992B) which drops executes and deletes kernel driver C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\runtime.sys and downloads another downloader smartdrv.exe. runtime.sys runs injects and hides Iexplore.exe process and downloads another components. xgame.exe is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZM, smartdrv.exe is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZN, runtime.sys is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.THW and other downloaded components are detected as several variants of Trojan Backdoor.Ntrootkit.
- I-Worm/Stration downloader
Next Stration downloader variant spreads by email in messages with randomly generated subject and body with two attachments. PDF attachment is harmless but EXE attachment which is 18708B long is downloader itself and AVG detects it as I-Worm/Stration. More information about Stration worm familly can be found in the Virus Encyclopedia.
- I-Worm/Stration downloader
Latest Stration downloader spreads by email in messages with randomly generated subject and body with one EXE and one PDF file attached. EXE file is 20992B in size and it`s downloader itself which is detected by AVG as I-Worm/Stration.FJA. The file downloader tryes to download is already detected as I-Worm/Stration. More information about Stration worm familly can be found in the Virus Encyclopedia.
- Stration downloader
A new Stration downloader was seeded during todays morning using mail messages where subject and body are variable and which contains two attachments, one with pdf extension and second with exe extension which is 4096B in size and it`s downloader itself. AVG detect this threat as Trojan horse Downloader.Generic6.PFM. Downloader tryes to download and install Stration to affect system, but Stration download link is no longer active. More information about Stration worm familly can be found in the Virus Encyclopedia.
In Their Own Words…
Our clients are saying:
A few years ago, we were being strangled in our patchwork "network" of computers, phones, scanners, "PDAs" and servers. We reached out to Superior Computer Services and now, a relatively short time later, our fully integrated network has allowed us to produce and access our work products, both on site and virtually anywhere on the globe, to a degree that is the envy of many of our colleagues (and competitors).
Michael Stutman
Mayerson Stutman Abramowitz Royer, LLP
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