@BBigford said in Torch malware / browser?:

If we're talking about the same Torch, it's not malware. It has a torrent client embedded in it so that might be throwing up a flag.

Not to say it might be a phishing variant, or be compromised in another way. But the browser itself is fine (based on Chrome). Used it for a couple years before moving on.

I saw that there is a split on whether or not it is technically "malware", but that's not as much my concern. I just need to be able to positively tell the customer that it didn't come from our side (and I'm feeling pretty confident in that it did not).

And to my eyes, @BBigford, its behavior absolutely qualifies it as malware. Too much sneaky stuff going on when you use it, pop up ads all over the place, the use of the word "toolbar", etc, but I digress.

Bitdefender lauch a new tool to detect ransomware, It's free.

https://labs.bitdefender.com/2016/03/combination-crypto-ransomware-vaccine-released/

@Ambarishrh said:

@nadnerB Thank God i could remote it and do the things required, otherwise would be driving a bit far to do this! 🙂 Thanks to screenconnect, i was actually evaluating screenconnect as my go to tool for remote support, one thing i noticed is few windows message screenconnect didn't allow me to click ok to proceed, at that time it just shows that i am connected but not the guest. Used Teamviewer free for that to complete that action, so i have second thoughts about screenconnect!

When ScreenConnect is running as an admin process, you can click everything.

@JaredBusch said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

is this feeling is wrong???
because whenever i'm doing something on the cloud i start have concern on security

I most certainly do not. The only reason to feel safe locally is because you are practicing security through obscurity, and that is not security.

Well known reputable providers have security teams dedicated to ensuring their services are secure.

^^^ This. Not only do they have teams of people that do this, and they have people with a lot more experience than you are likely to have, and lots of them... but they also have more money and resources, take security much more seriously, don't deal with SMB politics crippling their security efforts, have tons of reputation on the line and the big one... they know their product far better than anyone else and simply have more capability to protect it.

What we might do is for our non-servers go with the cloud free platform, and for the servers just purchase the standard business version.

Sure it splits up the monitoring, but at least it gives us the tools we need (for our servers), at a reasonable cost.

@Nic said:

No, that's our direct sales guy - email is [email protected]

Sweet. I emailed him about renewal, so I could gather info, and so his email would be saved in my Gmail...LOL

I would definitely prefer working with Sophos over TrendMicro anyday.

@Nic said:

Yeah as far as I know we don't have anything like that. Seems a bit unfair to existing customers too - like when you switch phone companies 🙂

If it is only for the first year or something, nothing really wrong with it. If it was a permanent rate, that would be different.

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

A bit on the reimaging rights. Intune with SA is a volume license. You could use the volume license media and key to reimage other computers that run the same exact product version. You could use the Win8.1 Pro media and key for other Win8.1 Pro computers. Upgrade rights are only available with SA, one device per user. Do understand that if you cancel Intune, you'd be revoking your volume license rights.

Alex,
Under the old SA in a VL setup, let's say you bought Office Pro plus with SA, when you purchased it Office 2010 was out, but during your subscription, Office 2013 comes out.
Now say you discontinue your subscription. It is my understanding that you can use 2013 in perpetuity.

Is the same true for machines that you purchase Intune with SA? So you have a Windows XP machine today, you buy Intune with SA which allows you to upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro (or Enterprise if you wish). If you dump the SA portion of the subscription are you required to go back to XP on that computer? If that's the case, calling it SA was a bad decision as the rules would be different for two things with the same name.

The software, including the OS license, is provided on a subscription basis only. There is, however, a buyout option that's available for cancellations after the initial 12-month term. I'm not sure what the pricing on it is offhand, as that requires contacting MS directly.

Thanks - I do recall seeing something about a buyout.

Do we have a MS rep around to answer this?

@Nic said:

For anyone who is a satisfied customer, cast your vote here 🙂 http://community.spiceworks.com/spice_list/show/397

Done!

@Obsolesce said in TrendMicro 10.6:

Is TrendMicro still blocking ML?

No, we run it here and I'm able to access it.

Stumbled on this, remember when Vipre was a thing? Boy have things changed a lot in the last few years.