GFI LANguard is the award-winning network and security scanner used by over 20,000 customers. It scan your network and ports to detect, assess and correct security vulnerabilities with minimal administrative effort. As an administrator, you have to deal separately with problems related to vulnerability issues, patch management and network auditing, at times using multiple products. However, with GFI LANguard these three cornerstones of vulnerability management are addressed in one package. It gives you a complete picture of your network set-up and help you to maintain a secure network state faster and more effectively.
To add further value, GFI has now released a freeware version of GFI LANguard, in line with ‘We Care’ initiative to offer a helping hand in these hard economic times. Using the freeware version, companies can scan up to 5 IPs for free using the product’s full feature set – with no restrictions whatsoever.
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Vista is one of those operating systems that was “good enough” for release. Some users are finding that it does not work like XP, icons have been changed, menus have been rearranged and some features are harder to find. I can see how the average home user (most of you) out there could be confused by this. This post might help you sort some of those out. The first thing is there is no more BOOT.INI file available in msconfig. So? This file was used to change your boot if you had multiple operating systems installed. Vista has something called BCEDIT which is not user friendly; I do not recommend using it. What can you do? what can you do? download Vista Boot Pro, this freeware program offers an easy to use interface, click the options you want, select the OS to Boot first and click Apply. How did the big guns at ZDNet manage to miss that? Problem number one, solved.
Next on the list is the buried display settings problem. Burying and hiding settings from users is not a good thing but I don’t really feel that this is what they have done. Sure, you have to right click on your desktop and go down to Display Settings but if you have a sufficiently large display with a resolution of at least 1024 x 768 you won’t have to scroll to find it. Yeah, it could be annoying but if you think about it, it is more logically organized.
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