Today's News: A week of gloom and Mydoom

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Title: Windows Week that Was

An e-newsletter published by SearchWin2000.com   January 30, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  The Desktop Deployment Info Center: Your one-stop shop for everything about managing business desktops.  Top News of the Week  >>  BREAKING NEWS: Quest plans to acquire Aelita for $115M >>  Security R&D to rise; skittish SMBs sound off SPONSORED BY: The Desktop Deployment Info Center The Desktop Deployment Info Center is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about managing business desktops. You'll find tips, expert advice and other key resources focused on all aspects of managing Windows workstations. Topics covered include desktop deployment and migration, performance, disk management, backup and recovery, interoperability, security -- and much more! Click here to explore the Desktop Deployment Info Center today.  Week In Review  A week of gloom and Mydoom By John Hogan, News Editor Sobig.F doesn't look so big now. Last summer, that worm infected systems worldwide within a matter of days and, in the process, blazed a path to infamy as the Internet's most virulent e-mail worm. This week, Mydoom-A eclipsed that record. By Tuesday, Mydoom-A had infected one out of every 41 e-mail messages. And so far, the U.K.-based e-mail monitoring service MessageLabs said that it alone has blocked 7.4 million copies of Mydoom-A. The worm attempted to harvest e-mail addresses from unsuspecting accounts and aimed to launch a denial-of-service attack against the Web site of SCO Group, the software company that has filed lawsuits against IBM and Novell over their alleged use of System V Unix code on behalf of the open source community. Has Mydoom become your doom? It has for millions. Click here to read more about this weeks e-mail worm. More on this topic: >  Mydoom variant targets Microsoft >  National cybersecurity alert system launched >  Researcher: SMBs wary of depending on Microsoft >  Microsoft bulks up security R&D budget >  Microsoft sets June date for Office Service Pack  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   Chapter of the Week: Server Configuration -- Windows Terminal Servers 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, discusses the best approaches for installing and configuring Citrix/Microsoft server-based computing products. The topics include tips and tricks for sizing a stable Terminal Services Farm based on Windows 2000/2003, hardware planning and step-by-step installation procedures and checklists. Webcast: When is an operating system obsolete? It's the beginning of the end for Windows NT. Or at least so Microsoft says. In this webcast, best-selling author Mark Minasi shares his views on when an operating system as popular as NT 4.0 truly becomes obsolete. Click here to watch and listen. Best Web Links: Exchange and other groupware As offices turn paperless, e-mail has become the lifeline for corporate communications. Here's where to turn if you have anything to do with Exchange and Outlook, Lotus Notes and Domino, Novell Groupwise or Internet mail. Click here to check out this compilation of articles, tips and advice about Exchange and other groupware. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT blooper #124: How to Shift the mood of a computer Poltergeist Right before Christmas, a computer at an Australian company went haywire. But this was no ordinary crashed computer: this one seemed to be possessed by a poltergeist! Who you gonna call? Not Ghostbusters. Click here to read about the wacky call tech support person Shane Steere received on what seemed to be a normal, quiet morning. 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