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What is Spam Stats?
Posted by SteveT on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 :: Last Updated: Friday, April 23, 2010 :: 1985 Views
What is SpamStats? Spamstats is a scripted method of tracking spam, emailed viruses, incoming, and outgoing messages. You are only limited on what is collected by the rules you create. Spamstats.vbs is a Windows Scripting Host (Visual Basic) script that when executed will update a MySQL Database (http://www.mysql.com) . The script is called from Mail Filter Pro v3.0.114b (or higher) which w...Read Full Story...
Top Cat Computing BOINC Team
Posted by SteveT on Saturday, April 17, 2010 :: Last Updated: Saturday, April 17, 2010 :: 254 Views
What is BOINC? The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatolog...Read Full Story...
Authorized Download Sites for Top Cat Computing Programs
Posted by SteveT on Monday, March 26, 2007 :: Last Updated: Sunday, February 10, 2008 :: 1695 Views
Some programs that Top Cat Computing has posted here in our download library have been taken and upload to other servers without the consent of Top Cat Computing; therefore it has become necessary to list those sites that are authorized to host our files to ensure that the most recent versions of the program available and that they are unmodified. The VBS Scripts and Batch files that are posted ...Read Full Story...
Using NAV's Roaming client support (includes load balancing abilities for NT servers)
Posted by BillD on Wednesday, August 07, 2002 :: Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2007 :: 2193 Views
Description: Roaming client describes the abilities of NAV to seek and use a parent server based on several criteria. Within roaming client abilities exists the possibilities for server load balancing, receiving defs from "the closest server" and traveling users to connect their computer to a network in a new office and utilize the parent server in that office, rather than their original miles ...Read Full Story...
What is RunRoam?
Posted by SteveT on Wednesday, August 07, 2002 :: Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2007 :: 1185 Views
Description: RunRoam is a Win32 console applications written in C/C++, that when executed, will the run NAVRoam.exe file. NAVRoam is a new feature added to Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition (NAVCE) 7.6 that provides Roaming Client Support and is rolled out to a client automatically whenever NAVCE 7.6 is installed on the client. For details on configuring NAVRoam, please the Symantec Knowledgebas...Read Full Story...
Using a Batch file to Update NAVNLM and NAVUPDAT
Posted by BillD on Monday, January 27, 1997 :: Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2007 :: 2293 Views
The purpose of this document is to show, how you can automate the updating and distribution of your Norton AntiVirus Virus definitions, on multiple servers using a batch file. First, download the latest Intelligent Updater from the Symantec Web site (http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html), and place it in the F:\USERS\BILLD\NAV folder, each week. Note: You will need to change t...Read Full Story...
Web Developer Tip: Speeding Up Your Web Pages
Posted by SteveT on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 :: Last Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 :: 1436 Views
Do you want to make your web pages load faster in your clients browser? Here is a simple tip that can do just that. For small web pages, you may not see a noticeable difference, but as the size of your pages grows, this tip will help improve the speed that your page loads in your clients web browser. Background: When a user requests a web page, the request is sent to the web server and the resul...Read Full Story...
Using EICAR to test your AntiVirus Software
Posted by SteveT on Thursday, March 29, 2007 :: Last Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 :: 2662 Views
I have had many requests from users for "Live" viruses so that a user can test their antivirus product to see that it is working, and what the alerts would look like when an actual virus is detected. Using a "Live" virus to do this is extremely risky, dangerous and unacceptable for the purpose of testing and demonstrating. To resolve this problem the antivirus community came up with a file for jus...Read Full Story...
Scheduling Norton Antivirus scans to run when local user is not logged in
Posted by SteveT on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 :: Last Updated: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 :: 3955 Views
Situation: You wish to schedule Norton AntiVirus (retail versions) to run scheduled scans when a user is not logged in under Windows NT/2000/XP. Background: You schedule a Full System scan with Norton AntiVirus, and your computer is on but there is no user logged on. You check the Norton AntiVirus and scheduler logs and it appears that the task was not run. There can be several causes for the sca...Read Full Story...
What is FCOM (File Compare)?
Posted by SteveT on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 :: Last Updated: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 :: 2711 Views
FCOM/FCOM32 is a File Compare utility program that compares two files and determines if the two files are the same. The results are returned on screen and in the form of a DOS errorlevel. The errorlevel can be used in batch files to have the batch file perform specific tasks based on the results of the error level. Sample test batch files are included in the attached zip archive. The FCOM.ZIP f...Read Full Story...