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A newsletter published by TechTarget   December 05, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Microsoft: Microsoft Empower Program for ISVs  Top News of the Week  >>  Cheap Longhorn, new licenses SPONSORED BY: Microsoft The Microsoft Empower Program for ISVs is designed to help you succeed both in developing your product and growing your business. Benefits include five MSDN Universal subscriptions; internal use licenses; on-line newsgroups; Concierge; resource guides; and sales & marketing materials to help you promote your software products. Empower your development, testing & marketing for only $375. Click here to learn more.  Week In Review  Drug lords don't have it this good by John Hogan, News Editor Microsoft's David Finn sounds like a beaten man. In a speech this week, the "digital integrity" executive admitted that virus writers and software counterfeiters are pretty much operating at will around the globe. Lawsuits and criminal prosecutions have done little to prevent such practices, which are costing enterprises -- and Microsoft -- billions in lost revenue. The costs associated with system disruptions and crashes caused by Blaster and Sobig-F alone come to about $13 billion. And counterfeiting is wreaking havoc with software vendors as well. Heck, it's a better deal to be a software counterfeiter than a drug lord. Finn estimated that the profit margin is nine times better for bogus software than it is for cocaine -- and it's a lot less likely that you'll end up in a body bag. Click here to read more of John's views on virus writers and software piracy and other top stories of the week. More on this topic: >  Web virus authors 'winning battle,' Microsoft says >  Asian pirates sell Microsoft's next Windows system >  Specific Exchange configuration exposes OWA >  SharePoint Services installation problems reported >  Microsoft opens technology to more licensing  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   Chapter of the Week: Securing Active Directory This chapter from the book Inside Active Directory by Sakari Kouti and Mika Seitsonen will help you lock down your Active Directory. The authors first review Windows 2000 general security. Then, they examine and discuss AD access control. Finally, they address how permissions works to protect each Active Directory object. Webcast: Why now is the time to start a PC replacement cycle There are thousands of aging PCs in offices around the world. In this webcast, Rob Enderle of Forrester Research discusses why this could be a risk to your company's productivity and business-process continuity. Ask the Security Expert, Roberta Bragg: How do I recover my Win2k admin logon password? Dear Roberta: I forgot my Win2000 logon admin password. Can you show me any tricks or registry tips to recover it? Is it possible to break the password from Regedit? Click here to read Roberta Bragg's expert response. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT blooper #118: No more authoritative of those restore thingies! "I get many laughs -- and shudders of sympathy -- whenever I tell this story," says Justin Culbreath, a systems engineer whose company's corrupted Active Directory database wreaked havoc on over 18,000 users. Tell us about your wackiest IT bloopers!  Vent!  Are you migrating off Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5? And if so, are you going to Exchange 2000 or 2003? Cast your vote in our current member poll.   Contact Us   NEWS EDITOR John Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your news, press releases and product announcements. SENIOR SITE EDITOR Marilyn Cohodas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your original articles and best practices. SITE EDITOR Christine Polewarczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your bloopers and Featured Topic ideas. SENIOR NEWS WRITER Margie Semilof [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your news and story ideas. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matt Danielsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your ideas for webcasts and discussion day topics. ASSISTANT EDITOR Jennifer Luscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your favorite Web sites and white papers. ASSISTANT EDITOR Vandana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your tips and your true IT bloopers. A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. Copyright 2003 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Windows Week that Was":   -  Reply to this e-mail with REMOVE in the Subject line OR   -  Go to unsubscribe and enter your e-mail address to cancel your subscription Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.