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Susan, thanks.  They’ve updated it since your original link so people might want to use the latest one.  Seems like this is an evolving target.

Best,

Robert

Susan,

Thank you for sharing info about this utility.

I found that it did not seem to run correctly unless the last parameter was C:\ instead of just C:. Runs without the / showed only 9 directories and 9 files scanned but running it with the C:\ resulted in 162919 directories and 633744 files being scanned.

Took a look in Github to see if I could locate the code a search for “log4j2 scan” revealed some 33 projects but was unable to tell which one your article references.  Could you please let us know which project it is?

Thanks,

Robert

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Better yet, I left Outlook behind years ago. Searches in Gmail don’t have these problems – ever. Search isn’t MS’s core business and Outlook is decades old code held together with string and rubber bands. I understand leaving it isn’t an option for those folks who work for large businesses where this is the standard but for newer businesses Gmail for Business is very attractive. No, I don’t work for them – just a happy customer.

I tried or looked very closely at most of these a year or so ago to make my own selection: LastPass (premium). Pretty happy with it but none of these vendors really offer mobile support UNLESS you use their own browser. Effectively for me that just means I don’t use most of my really secure sites on the mobile platforms except for just a few for which I have memorized passwords. Half a loaf is better than none.

Generally when I’m on the iPad or Android tablet/phone I am using Chrome or Safari and looking at/doing multiple things and opening the LastPass browser for a site of interest at that moment just doesn’t fit into how I work. I will freely admit I haven’t used the LastPass browser more generally to see if I could live with it all the time on mobile devices but again, that’s not what I was looking for. Most people want to be secure but we also have our browser likes/dislikes and usually have one we prefer. The issue here may be Apple protecting their turf so Chrome cannot offer plug-ins or even a Bookmarks bar on iOS and most of these work via browser plug-ins. Now I think about it Chrome on Android doesn’t offer plug-ins either…

Lincoln,
Best way to avoid the issue mentioned with access to router B is to reserve an IP address for it using the web interface to router A. Different brands call this different things but it’s almost always available from wherever DHCP is configured. Use the MAC address of the LAN side of router B and choose an address on the local subnet and within the normal range of the addresses DHCP on router A hands out for wired devices. I like to choose a distinctive value for the last octet, usually a multiple of 64 or one below the end of the range AND LABEL router B with the address. I’ve done this quite a few times with various brands of routers and have not run into the problem of not being able to access the web interface of router B.

And, like you, my experience with powerline networks was less than ideal, both in my own house and at clients’ places. Funnily enough, the last place I made this change was a client’s house fully wired with Ethernet in every room and a wireless router in the basement/garage and with a powerline router on floor 1 and a powerline AP on floor 2. Client, of course, has no idea what this was about, just wants good wireless everywhere.

Now, if I could just get my own old house properly wired for Ethernet to the rear of the house. Shoemaker’s children get shoes last.

Rob

Susan,
Just a note to warn others of a couple of things to do before applying SP1 for Win7 (x64). I discovered a client’s failing hard drive after trying to apply SP1. The first occurrence I wrote off to a fluke; after it occurred on the rerun I looked and thought more carefully about it before trying again. This article was helpful in realizing I needed to do a full Chkdsk before trying again. In this particular case the drive had non-recoverable errors and failed permanently fairly quickly (non-managed environment so no obvious warning other than the 8007045D before the hard fail).

There may have been Event Log entries warning of the problem but once I had the hard failure it was too late. It not only wouldn’t boot but was not readable on other systems after removal so ultimately nothing was recovered from the drive.

Reminds me that I added a weekly or monthly Chkdsk job to scheduled tasks on another client machine where I suspected IO issues and after a couple of runs with errors I replaced the drive and it’s been quiet since. I’m probably going to begin adding the monthly Chkdsk to those unmanaged client computers as they come through my door now so I have some fairly easy way of being warned of failures (via the Wininit source record in Event Log). It’s not hard to schedule and pretty obviously has potential to get on top of disk problems before data loss.

FWIW, other than the above I’ve seen no problems since I’ve been ‘dogfooding’ the SP1 update. Seems to be pretty well baked from other reports so unless something major crops up soon I’d say it’s ready for more general population’s computers.

Best regards,
Rob Cohen

	PATCH WATCH[/size][/font] Still not ready to give Win7 SP1 the green light[/size]
	By Susan Bradley Reports from the small-business community describe severe installation problems with Windows 7 Service Pack 1. With no compelling reason to install SP1, this update remains on hold. [/size]

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