==================================================================== SEARCHWIN2000 DAILY NEWS September 21, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/news/0,,sid1,00.html ==================================================================== Sponsored by: NetIQ ==================================================================== FREE E-BOOK: Register now to read the latest chapter of "The Definitive Guide to Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 Migration" - a FREE eBook brought to you by NetIQ and Realtimepublishers.com. Get hands-on field experience as industry experts tackle both Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 in a single book. Register now at http://www.netiq.com/ebook/register.asp?Origin=Srchw2kDN0921 ==================================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "Nimda winds down; companies recover" The Nimda monster seems to be slowing down. Researchers who keep tabs on such things say the number of infected systems peaked at 160,000, but that figure dropped to about 50,000 by Thursday. Right now, most companies are focused on cleanup. SOURCE: CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7239193.html?tag=mn_hd Read more about Nimda at http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid14_gci770745,00.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S WINDOWS 2000 AND INDUSTRY NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Tarpit tool sticks it back to teenage mutant Nimda worm [2] IIS trembles before Zeus [3] Users rip MS license changes [4] Next antitrust hearings to focus on XP [5] Microsoft's .Net: Not a J2EE killer [1] "Tarpit tool sticks it back to teenage mutant Nimda worm" You can make life stickier for Internet worms like the nasty Nimda with LaBrea. Named after the tarpits in LA that bogged down big prehistoric creatures, the tool creates a virtual tarpit that bogs down infected machines. SOURCE: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/21808.html [2] "IIS trembles before Zeus" The Zeus is loose. The new Zeus Web server apparently runs at an ungodly speed and could beat Microsoft and Apache in the quick department. In tests conducted by IT Week, the Zeus Web Server 4.0 was twice as fast as IIS and beat Apache by 42%. SOURCE: IT Week http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095656,00.html [3] "Users rip MS license changes" Analysts say Microsoft's might pretty much "allows" it to charge a bundle for new software licenses. How much is a "bundle"? You can expect to pay anywhere from 33% to 107% more for Office XP or Windows 2000. Crime doesn't pay, but market dominance apparently does. SOURCE: ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097226,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01 [4] "Next antitrust hearings to focus on XP" Lawyers for Uncle Sam plan to grill XP as the antitrust case enters its final round. Both sides will still talk settlement as they work toward a February 2002 hearing on a solution to this mess. SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2813851,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 [5] "Microsoft's .Net: Not a J2EE killer" Sun doesn't have a whole lot to worry about. Giga analysts think Microsoft will grab about 35% of the enterprise development market over the next couple of years. That's a good showing for .Net, but the Microsoft platform still has a lot to prove before it can make any huge dents in the dominance of Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition. Analysts point to J2EE's mature clustering, load balancing, and failover technology, and Java's utility as an enterprise application builder as reasons it will be the platform of choice. SOURCE: InformationWeek http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20010920S0011 If you would like to comment on today's news, email searchWin2000.com News Editor Ed Parry at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. ==================================================================== BEST WEB LINKS ==================================================================== "Improve network monitoring with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provides a standard method of accessing system information, performance counters and application monitors. This article will show you how to create a Visual Basic application for accessing WMI data and keep closer tabs on your network's performance. 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Please include your name, title and company name. --------------------------------------------------------------- THE MISSING LINK --------------------------------------------------------------- A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web " Ants hold clues to speedier Internet" Before you reach for that can of Raid, remember this: That ant in your kitchen could hold the key to a better Internet, in addition to holding the Cheez-It scraps that fell out of the box. A new book says the way ants do business is similar to the way the Web works. And, therefore, ant behavior may be the key to making it work better. An explanation? Ants know how to get out of the nest, find food and get it back to the nest in the shortest amount of time and in the most efficient way. They mark their trails with a chemical so everyone knows the route, doesn't get lost and doesn't hold up the flow. (Have you ever seen an ant traffic jam?) Some engineers say we should apply that concept to the Internet and traffic data like an ant would. The result would be a more efficient flow of data with fewer jams. Plus, no one has to pay ants any intellectual fees for their concept. SOURCE: The New York Times http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/online20.htm ============================================================ Sponsored by - MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 2001 ============================================================ MEC 2001 will now have more than 200 in-depth sessions and hands-on labs. 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