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As usual, Google just keep on releasing more stuff, it's hard to keep up!

Three of the latest arrivals:-

This article suggests what we already knew (and what our customers quite often suspect) - Norton's products grinds your machine down to a snails pace while "Nod32 gets good security reviews and seems to leave the system fairly nippy".

The article and it's conclusion.

From: serv@elamex.com [mailto:serv@elamex.com] 
Sent: None
To: xxxx@xxxxx.com
Subject: Mail server report.

Mail server report.

Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are 
being sent rom your computer.

Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a 
new virus type (Network Worms).

Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the 
computer nnoticeably. 
After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests 
all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to 
these e-mail addresses

Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer 
restoring.

Best regards,
Customers support service

I had to admit it made me chuckle, a customer asked me what it was. My reply was something along these lines.

This flash demonstration is to show how to set your Out-of-office autoreply in our Shinymail web mail.

View the demonstration here.

We recently had a client who applied Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1 on their Dell Poweredge 420SC server. On reboot, they were greeted with the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD) with the error message.

STOP 0x00000051 (REGISTRY_ERROR)

The server would then reboot and then do it all again. Safe mode and Last Known good configuration made no difference.

After searching the net, it turns out that this is a known problem on older Dell Poweredges that have had a factory install of Windows on.