TTC Shelbyville – Technical Blog

Here’s a great app to make a bootable installation from your USB Drive.  Link

The internet is crossing over with the medical field, school, jobs and a dozen other various ways including cellphones.  Phonevite can be used in many ways to communicate across different forms of communication (iPhones, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and others) .  When do you use it?  Phonevite allows you to do the following:

Diigo is a Web 2.0 tool that allows you to highlight, bookmark, annotate and use the web like never before. 

Diigo allows you to collaborate the information that you find.  Check out this demo.

Spread-It allows for up to a 500mb file upload and emails a link to the intended recipient.  Link

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Evidently there is a flaw in the texting on iPhones that allow an attacker to totally control the phone. Link

orginial posts -Forbes – Yahoo – Bill Mullins

Marshal8e6 Releases New Intelligent Email Encryption Service – DarkReading

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Rogueware On A Roll: 640,000 New Variants Of Fake AV In Q3 – DarkReading

See are articles posted this week on FAKE anti-virus information. Don’t click on any apparent software that warns you that you are infected if you did not install it.
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This webste offers an excellent database to see if you are at risk for data or identity theft or if your information was sold.  Link  Your information is verified to see if you are at RISK.  You will receive two passwords that MUST be written down to see details.

Researcher Uncovers Massive, Sophisticated Trojan Targeting Top Businesses – Trojan horses/Security – DarkReading

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Google Safe Browsing Feature Could Compromise Privacy – DarkReading
Researcher RSnake has discovered that Google’s anti-malware and anti-phishing features for Chrome and Firefox tracks information about user’s browsing habits

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PRTG Network Monitor provides a freeware solution to monitor your network.  This solution allows the monitoring only 10 devices.  Link

As we go thru our networking course, one of the biggest items you need to keep in mind is setting a baseline checking your servers and workstations bandwidth that is being used by your users.  This Utility (Networx) is an excellent utility to see the a variety of networking information including quotas that you set.

The largest laptop harddrive? 1 TB of course as of 7/09.  Link

Every night that I that I turn in, I wonder about my current students and hope that they have the drive and motivation to continue their studies.  They compete against some of the most talented people in the world.  Although our CIT program has the drive to put these students in government, banking, manufacturing, health and other industries, I hope that Mike, Dawn and I can give these students the talent they need to compete in the ever changing technical world.

Our curriculum is the foundation they need to be versatile and diverse enough to enter the information technology field.  Not only do we teach tech support on hardware but networking, security and various operating systems.  Students have the opportunity to achieve seven to nine certifications from various vendors.

What is the most critical industry needed for IT professionals today?

Here’s a few great tools that allow you to test your website’s response time.  Link

This webserver stress test is for IIS 6.0.  Link

By far one of the best burning applications available has to be ImgBurn.  With ImgBurn, you to:

The above information is from the ImgBurn website.

Here’s a movie of Antivirus2009 (variant).  Don’t fall for this if you see this.  Reboot Your Computer.  IF you are dumb enough to click, download Malwarebytes or SmitFraudFix.  Reboot into safe mode.  Run these programs several times and you should be clean.  Link to Video

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The class has repaired a ton of computers that have every version of Antivirus2009 and every name that could be given to fool the average user.  Here’s another to avoid.  In order not to get infected, turn your computer off.  Many people will tell you to go to the Task Manager and end the process of IE or Firefox.  Be safe on the internet and keep your real antivirus up-to-date.  You can still get infected if you click the website’s pop-up or links that tell you that you are infected.

Get money for a lot of your old electronics.  Link