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A newsletter published by TechTarget   January 28, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SiteScope: Cost-effective systems monitoring - Free white paper  Today's Highlights   >>  LEAD STORY:  Longhorn may bridge the thin, fat client worlds >>  NEWS:  Potent Mydoom worm flooding inboxes >>  IT SURVIVAL KIT:  Designing AD security through risk analysis >>  THE MISSING LINK:  Clinton legacy -- Eight years, two e-mails  News and Top Stories   LEAD STORY Longhorn may bridge the thin, fat client worlds  (SearchWin2000.com) If all goes as planned, Microsoft's Longhorn will offer a compromise for those mired in the debate over thin versus fat clients. More on this topic: >  Desktop decisions: A special report >  Face-off: Thin clients vs. fat clients SPONSORED BY: SiteScope Keep your IT systems & applications up & running 24x7 Need to keep your IT systems, applications and Web sites up and running 24x7, but can't break the bank? SiteScope agentless systems monitoring software lowers the TCO of systems monitoring, and because you don't need to install agents on production systems, you'll be up and running in 20 minutes. Click here to download your free white paper, Agentless Monitoring, Reduce the TCO of Systems Monitoring NEWS Potent Mydoom worm flooding inboxes (SearchSecurity.com) A new mass-mailing worm called Mydoom-A is infecting one in every 41 e-mail messages. NEWS Best practices for cleaning up Mydoom mess (SearchSecurity.com) Updated antivirus signatures will write off the virile Mydoom-A worm. In the meantime, network administrators should follow best practices to prevent further infection. DAILY HEADLINES All headlines, including those below, are available from our news page.   >  Mydoom-A: Is it a Mimail variant?   >  Microsoft bulks up security R&D budget   >  Microsoft patches latest Word   >  Microsoft steers away from object orientation   VIEW ALL NEWS AND TOP STORIES  Announcements & Links   IT SURVIVAL KIT Designing AD security through risk analysis The first step toward establishing a security solution for AD is to identify threats. The second step is to identify the sources of those threats. You then need to establish a proactive or reactive strategy for dealing with the threats. Read this tip to find out how. ASK THE EXPERT Books vs. classes for certification Dear Ed, Do a lot of people read books to educate themselves to get certified or do you find most attend a classroom setting to learn? Click here to read Ed Tittel's expert answer. CHAPTER OF THE WEEK Windows Terminal Services This chapter from the book Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite for Windows Server 2003: The Official Guide, by Steve Kaplan, Franny Kelly, Tim Reeser and Alan Wood, is the perfect resource for you if you are looking to bone up on Windows 2000 and 2003 Terminal Services. Terminal Services is required for server-based computing whether you use Citrix MetaFrame or not. The topics include migration, domain and application considerations, Remote Desktop Client, Remote Desktop Protocol and various licensing issues. EXPERT WEBCAST Effective security management In this webcast, security expert Scott Blake discusses some best practices for effective security management, including how to minimize security threats and ensure optimal uptime. Click here to watch and listen to this expert webcast. TIP CONTEST Win a new 256 MB digital audio player! Get your Windows related IT tips submitted now! In addition to being included in our Hall of Fame, the user who submits this month's winning tip will receive an iRiver iFP-190T 256 MB digital audio player! Click here to submit and read more about this month's prize. THE MISSING LINK Clinton legacy -- Eight years, two e-mails Evidently, former President Bill Clinton was like any other chief executive -- he didn't send e-mails, but his handlers sure did. The archives of the Clinton library will house a whopping 40 million electronic dispatches. The prez actually sent two of them, and one of those was a test to see whether he knew how to push the buttons. Who was the lucky recipient of that sole e-mail? No, not her! It was former Sen. John Glenn -- a space pioneer for man, and a cyberspace pioneer for Mr. Clinton, who prefers the old-fashioned phone and the older-fashioned hard-copy note. So Al Gore may have helped "invent" the Internet, but that doesn't mean his boss used it. Sign up for our white paper alerts today! 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