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Original release date: January 13, 2014 | Last revised: January 14, 2014 Systems Affected NTP servers Overview A Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible NTP servers to...

Hey all, hope you can help me. I'm attempting to use MDT for deployment. I've been partially successful, but have had a lot of interruptions and keep having to restart the process. My understanding and how I hope to do it is this: Build a reference image with items that do not install well...

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In another bizarre turn of events regarding the leak of how Internet data is being collected and stored in aggregate form, presumably forever, a new slide released shows how Google's cloud security has been completely infiltrated by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The US has already...

I just got around to installing Speedfan on my IBM ThinkCentre M52 and was surprised at how hot it is running (see screenshot)Both the processor and internal hard drives are much higher than I'm accustomed to. I know that the hard drive is too hot, but with the design of the case, I can't think...

Most of the time when I right click on a folder either in C: or F: which is a Seagate aux drive, Explorer stops working (drop down window message "Windows Explorer stopped working" and next message "W Explorer restarts"). I have to start Explorer again from the Taskbar. It means that I do not...

I generally understand the CPU activity graphs in the resource monitor, with the exception of the first one...the total CPU activity displayed on it at first glance makes sense, when looking at the area shown in green, which is the total CPU activity, but there is also a blue line above that...

Here's a collection of interesting videos and links pertaining to the mass surveillance currently on-going. It all started when The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald exposed secret information indicating that the NSA was monitoring virtually all communication in the United States and in many countries...

I'm having random CPU spikes that I notice because the fans of my laptop start up. This has happened while browing the web, chatting through skype, using photoshop and sometimes while idling even. This laptop is new (a month and a half old), 8GB RAM, drivers up to date. Those programs should...

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A very handy tool! If you want to see what your machine is doing temperature wise or look through any number of system values then this app is excellent. Just updated to version 1.22. Download: HWMonitor - CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting

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Asus doesn't support my motherboard for w8, so their pc-probe-II is not installing on w8 saying "invalid o.s." Funny? right. So, is there any other free domain software that will read and display cpu temperature on my pc on w8? btw, asus has hard-coded "NT-6.0" or something like that in the...

The bitter truth of realizing the latency (delay) in the monitoring of line in/microphone inputs in Windows Vista/7/8 is being regarded as the most unsolved mystery in the windows audio environment. This accounts for all those musicians (like me and other people who were enjoying music through...

Hello, I'm looking for a reliable system resource monitor that stays on the desktop. I don't want to use any gadgets due to the security problem with the gadget platform. Any suggestions? Oddly enough, googling what I'm looking for isn't helping.

So I'm no parent or anything and I can't give details but we got a foster child in the house now who has to be closely monitored using the computer. As most of us know you don't want to sit there and monitor your child while they use the computer, you got better things to do, right? Well for me...

I purchased my computer , (Toshiba Satellite L505 64 bit system ) two years ago , and I have been told they are good for approximately 50,000 hours before trouble may start . First is there any truth to this ? Secondly , is there a way I can check the number of hours on my computer .? I...

Hello which program is the best to use for my OCZ VERTEX 2 SSD so i can watch the lifetime of my solid state drive? I found this SSDLife download page - freeware, professional and portable version downloads. but im not sure if its good.Can you suggest some useful tools like the one above?

Fixes an issue in which SNMP services returns no attributes for a PID when you monitor some services by using SNMP services on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...