April Fool's Virus
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April Fool's Virus / Conficker Worm / Downadup Virus Removal Tool
Virus & Worm Removal
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Common Utilities
Acrobat Reader 9.0
WinZip 9.0
Reset TS License
(Tell it to run when prompted, then Yes to accepting entry into
registry)
RoboCopy
Internet Explorer 6 SP1 (Update to Internet Explorer for Win2000 and below; Zipped; unzip and run ie6setup.exe in folder
/flat/win32/en/)
Remote Clients
ITS Virtual Server Client (Kaseya)
Citrix XenApps Client (new version)
Citrix Presentation Server Client (old version)
Windows Remote Desktop Client
ZyXEL VPN Client
SonicWall Global VPN Client
Patches
RPC patch for Windows 2000
RPC patch for Windows XP
RPC patch for Windows NT
2007 Time Zone Updates
No action necessary for Vista
Windows 2003 Server (All versions, including SBS)
Windows XP (Pro &
Home)
Exchange 2003 with SP2
Exchange 2003 with SP1
Outlook 2000 & 2003
Windows2000 (Pro +
Server) - download to its own folder & unzip. Then double
click the
file "TZupdate.reg" which will update the registry with the
new time zones database. Click yes and just follow instructions to
import the registry entry.Then double click on "refreshTZinfo.vbs"
to run the
VB script which updates the TimeZoneInformation registry key in the current control set.
This will happen so fast you probably won't even see it do it. To
check that it works, open up the clock and advance the time to Sunday
morning at 1:59 am on 3/11/07. Wait 1 minute and the clock should
jump ahead to 3:00 am as it adjusts for DST.
Sync Your Clock to NIST Atomic
Clock - Get the most accurate time for your PC now
Link
to Microsoft Site for more information on this
should-have-been-avoided problem
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