Koozie Notes

Groklaw Covers Sony's Root Kit

Looks like pj devoted a new 'SONY' section of her web site, groklaw, to cover the legal proceedings generated from Sony's decision to include DRM/Root Kit software on their audio CD's.

Mark Russinovich over at SysInternals wrote a piece covering the geeky technical details.

Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte covered this material in episode 12 of their podcast, "Security Now."  Review the transcript for details.

-Chris

WSJ's Best Blogs

The November 16th edition on the Wall Street Journal carried a guide to the best blogs.  Some of those are listed below.

Television: mediabistro.com/tvnewser

Taxes: taxanalysts.com

Insurance: www.insurancescrawl.com

Digital Content: paidcontent.org

Accounting: www.accountingobserver.com/blog/

Health Care: www.thehealthcareblog.com

HP 4: Thumbs Up

This morning I went and saw "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"and had a great time.  I even purchased my tickets beforehand using the Fandango service for the first time.  I didnt want to take any chances of showing up at the theatre and findin g out the HP4 was sold out.

Thumbs Up.

-Chris

Top 10 SysAdmin Tools

Over at Linux.com web site, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier opines on his top ten sysadmin tools.

So there you have it -- my top 10 in order of general usage. There are plenty of other useful tools for admins out there, and a number of other utilities that I use regularly. Maybe some of them are on your top 10 list. Let us know about your most valuable utilities (there need not be 10 of them), and if we publish your work, we'll pay you $100.

Nice to find another vim user. :-)

-Chris

AutoRuns Ver8.31 Released

Looks like the guys at Sysinternals have release an updated version of AutoRuns.

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor (A starting list of auto-run locations was obtained from David Solomon's "Windows Internals" seminar), shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

This is a great tool to find and remove unwanted startup programs on your computer.

-Chris