[Thinkpad] OT: Cleaning up a home network

[David Ross]

> Looks like Bill's gobbled up that company too!

Gyack...you're right!  Any idea when this happened? I was just on their
website a month ago, no sign of the Borg then.

Time to grab the latest (last?) version of all their utilities, before
MS bloats it up.

David

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> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 7:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: Cleaning up a home network
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> > A friend of mine asked me to come look at his home network. He has a
> > cable connection coming into a desktop machine and then wireless
> > connections from there. He said the gateway desktop runs very
slowly.
>
> This is a stiff load for a desktop, especially one running windows,
and
> especially if some of the wireless users are running software with
activity
> on many ports.  Good wireless routers are cheap nowadays!
>
> > He say that he runs Spysweeper, which I know nothing about,
> religiously.
> > I plan to take a cd with SpyBot Search and Destroy as well as
> Ad-aware.
>
> AVG has a nice anti-spyware program (formerly Ewido) as well.
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> > What I don't have is a tool to allow me to easily identify what
> programs
> > Task Manager says are running.
>
> sysinternals.com has a freebie called "Process Explorer" which gives
much
> more information than the task manager.  I recommend it highly.
>
> David R.
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