Sunday, November 11, 2007

Mike Tech Show - Podcast - #156 - 11-11-07



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(55 minutes)

Mike Tech Show Listener Round Table
Topic: Favorite items in your computer tool bag

Show #156 Notes

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Chris said...

A great show with a ton of useful tips from qualified folk with experience in the field. On the security side, I'd like to mention McAfee Stinger and Avast Virus Cleaner as good free portable apps
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/
default.asp?id=stinger
http://www.avast.com/eng/
avast-virus-cleaner.html

Another excellent free malware scanner for your USB stick is Prevx CSI
http://www.prevx.com/freescan.asp

4:08 AM  
Blogger Mike said...

Chris -

Thank you for the comments and the links.

7:14 AM  
Anonymous Brian said...

Great show!

Surprised to hear no one is using BartPE or the Ultimate Boot CD. These CD's boot to a Windows type GUI with all kinds of tools including the full TCP/IP stack allowing you to map drives to network shares, AV software, disk recovery tools, etc.

Pull files off an unbootable machine and drop them on a share somewhere (or even FTP). Can you say "Hero"? (I knew you could!)

Also, there's a utility to reset Administrator passwords in about 2 seconds (how many times have you run into that situation?).

This should be in EVERY tech's bag of tricks.

Again - great show! Thanks a bunch.

11:22 AM  
Blogger Mike said...

Brian -

Thank you! I actually use BartPE and the Ultimate Boot CD. I have talked about them on past shows. I kept the flow of the show to hardware items rather then Software because I spend so much time during my normal podcasts discussing software.

12:38 PM  
Anonymous Barbra said...

I learned about AVG anti-rootkit
...from this episode.


I tend to trust grisoft products
because they have never let me down.

It was a great show Mike!
Enjoyed having Cate in on the action.

She contributes great info
on a consistent basis!

2:58 AM  
Blogger zexxxx said...

Thanks for the AppSnap plug. Just an FYI, AppSnap does have a CLI mode that comes with the GUI so it can be scripted.

Details are here.

Thanks.

8:12 PM  

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