Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

From Tom’s Hardware (but I haven’t seen anything official from MS, so take this with a grain of salt)
As of the end of February, Microsoft will end internet activations for OEM product keys of the big computer providers (think Dell, HP, etc.).� This can be bad for many laptop users who often will reformat/reinstall [...]

Heads up from Susan about Verizon’s new policy on SMTP relaying with Dynamic IP’s…
I thought the reasoning of the ISP’s to port block TCP Port 25 was to direct all traffic through the ISP mail server (for spam and virus control - although I haven’t seen many major ISPs virus check on the gateway level).� [...]

There has been a vulnerability found in Windows and Unix versions of Putty, PSFTP, and PSCP that was reported today (multiple integer overflow).� The author has released a new version (0.57) that fixes this vulnerability…� Go here for the download.
(for those of you who are not familiar with Putty - it is a [...]

This is a in-case-you-want-to-know post…� RealVNC has released their enterprise version of VNC supporting strong authentication and session encryption and deployment tools.� Note that Unix/Linux and PocketPC viewer clients have not been released as of yet…
Tags: VNC

Chad announced on his weblog that there is a new version of WiSSH available (1.3). For those of you who aren’t familiar with this software, it will allow you to tunnel Windows Remote Desktop connections over SSH… (this isn’t trivial on Windows XP workstations).
Go check it out.
Tags: RemoteDesktop, SSH

For those of you in the Unix/Linux world - Tarantella is giving away single-user licenses for Secure Global Desktop Enterprise Edition 4. I haven’t used this app myself, but I have been told by others that it works well.
(Source: Yahoo News)

Tags: RemoteAccess