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Office VPN Headaches. Maybe I should use a VM?

My office has a SonicWALL SSL VPN 200 and a Fortinet FortiGate 100A. The first is a dedicated SSL VPN box, and it’s reliable, but it’s too slow. The second is a firewall/router/VPN, and it’s fast, but connectivity is spotty and the routing tables needed to connect the VPN to five subnets (some of which [...]

Server availability checker?

I have a weird problem with a couple of the servers in my office. Every few days, they will become completely unresponsive for about an hour, and the HDD lights will blink away like crazy the entire time. However, they will still respond to pings — they just won’t provide any other services that they’re [...]

when redoing a system install, always install antivirus first

dammit, hour and a half worth of work down the drain
didn’t install antivirus first…then got hit with xp antivirus – which is not an antivirus program, it just looks like one
i learned my lesson
1) antivirus + newest updates (turn on firewall first also)
2) windows updates
3) then install your software etcFunny that, I always install the [...]