April 13, 2010

WINDOWS 7 SEARCHES – SEARCH TECHNIQUES

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Previously:
Windows 7 Searches – Small Business
Windows 7 Searches – Libraries

You’ve got a Windows 7 workstation in a small business or law firm. The network server is running Windows Search 4 and you’ve added the network locations with shared files to your Documents library. All the pieces are in place!

 

SEARCH ALL DOCUMENTS FROM WINDOWS EXPLORER

When you click on Documents on the Start menu, you will open your Documents library, which includes both your individual files and all of the shared company documents.

Do a search from the upper right corner of the window. The search results will be reported instantly from all file locations, both your files and the firm documents. […] continued

Posted by Bruce Berls | April 13, 2010 10:13 pm
March 23, 2010

TIDAL WAVE OF MALWARE

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I cleaned up two malware-infested computers yesterday. Both of them had up-to-date antivirus software and responsible owners who had installed all critical Windows updates.

The only malware that I’ve seen for the last few months has been the kind that pops up phony security warnings, trying to get a credit card number. It can immediately make a computer unusable. There is more information about this type of malware here.

One of the computers I worked on had the malware described here last week by Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center, which can appear with a variety of different names and screens, constantly morphing and changing its code to make it harder to detect.

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Posted by Bruce Berls | March 23, 2010 8:54 am