Can’t initiate manual scan with Symantec Endpoint Protection

July 30th, 2009

Received a call yesterday that the users can no longer start a manual virus scan on their workstations.  Clicking the Active Scan or Full Scan options on the Scan for Threats dialog produced nothing. No scan, no error, nothing.

All clients are running Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 MR4 and the policies on the SEP server have not been changed. Virus definitions are coming down fine, admin scans are running, it’s just the users can’t start a scan manually.

What caused it?

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Fixing the D-Link DCS-950G wireless function

July 29th, 2009

I’ve had this camera up and running about a year ago. Since then, it’s been powered off and not used. Today I decided to connect it back up and could not get the wireless working. So I did a factory reset by holding the reset button in for 10 seconds and also upgraded the firmware to 1.08. But even after doing that I still couldn’t get the wireless working.

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Internet Storm Center Gadget

July 28th, 2009

Decided to take a look at Google Desktop and see what it takes to actually create a gadget. Turns out it’s nothing more than Javascript and XML along with the Google API, so I thought I’d start small and just create a gadget that would simply grab the alert status graphic over at http://isc.sans.org.

ISC Infocon screenshot

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Controlling workstation services with Group Policies

July 20th, 2009

Looking for a way to allow your users to start and stop specific services? Or maybe a way to prevent a Power User from stopping specific services? In this article I’ll show you how to accomplish both using a Group Policy.
This first thing that you’ll want to do is make sure the service that you want to control is installed on your administrative workstation. If it’s not, then you won’t see the service listed in the GPO.

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Upgrading a Cisco Catalyst Switch

April 15th, 2009

Today I’m starting to upgrade my almost 40 Cisco Catalyst 3560G switches to a newer version of the IOS. Since these switches were installed over the course of about 2 years, a lot of them are running different IOS versions, so it’s time to get everything up to snuff and running the same version across the board. The latest version that’s installed on any of them is 12.2(25) SEE3 and according to Cisco support that version is now in deferral and it’s suggested to move to version 12.2(44) SE5. But…that version is also in deferral so the suggested is 12.2(44) SE6. Now at the time of this writing, the latest version is 12.2.50-SE. But I’m going to stick with version 12.2(44) SE6 for now as I’m not one to jump on the latest version of anything unless I absolutely have to.
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