Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #222 – Lalo From Firefly
Steve is joined by Lalo Nunez of Firefly Network Solutions in Tampa, Florida
Lalo also has his own website
Lalo submitted a PDF file from which these notes are largely cribbed from. The original PDF can be found here
Topics and Links Discussed:
- Having a partner in the business
- Shadow Copy (Volume Snapshot Service or VSS) for windows
- Driverpacks is a collection of a of drivers for a particular categories of hardware
- WSUS Offline Update is a freeware tool that downloads all of the existing patches for the operating system you specify
- Ninite allows for automatic installation of software
- Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software
- Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories
- VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats
- Truecrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux
- Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.
- Jotti’s Malware Scan is an online tool that lets you upload a file and scan it with different antivirus tools
- Guides to the Ribbon: Use Office 2003 menus to learn the Office 2007 user interface
- AxCrypt is the leading open source file encryption software for Windows
- CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool
- Malwarebytes‘ Anti-Malware is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware
- Crystal Disk Info is a hard drive utility for Windows that displays a variety of information about a hard disk
- Speccy is designed to scan and display a computers specifications
- WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network security keys/passwords (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the ‘Wireless Zero Configuration’ service of Windows XP and by the ‘WLAN AutoConfig’ service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard.
- Custom Guides free quick references
- Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
- Ultimate Boot CD for Windows is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem.
- Ketarin is a small application which automatically updates setup packages, here is a tutorial on Ketarin
- CamStudio Records screen activity from the Windows desktop into standard AVI movie files.
- AutoIt is a simple tool that can simulate key presses, mouse movements and window commands in order to automate any windows based task.
- Combofix was designed to scan a computer for known malware, spyware and remove them
- Virtual CD/DVD drives: Daemon Tools, Virtual Clone Drive
Voicemails/Emails:
- Merril gives tips on installing service packs
- Rich gives praise to Scott Moulton’s hard-drive recovery classes
- Clifford about the free Nuance PDF Reader
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