Basically users with CA Antivirus are affected by this problem.

A temporary fix to this solution is to:

Disable Automatic Updates

OR

Disable CA Realtime Antivirus scanner

OR

Prevent CA Antivirus to scan *.msi and *.msp files.

The above workaround should definitely fix SVCHOST.exe problems.

SVCHOST.exe and CA Antivirus software have been lately fighting with each other for CPU and memory resources. CA has confirmed this problem and will return with a fix soon.

Till then temporary solution to your slow computer and SVCHOST hogging 50% of your CPU is:

Disable CA Antivirus Realtime protection

OR

Disable Automatic Updates

OR

Exclude CA Antivirus to scan *.msi and *.msp files.

The above will definitely solve your SVCHOST.exe and Automatic updates problem

McAfee’s Foundstone Professional Services is responding to a market need by offering the Certified Ethical Hacking course, says Bill Hau, the head of Foundstone, noting that clients have been asking McAfee to provide this certification.

The course is intensive, lasting five days from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with an exam on the sixth day. IT pros learn the basics on how to hack into a system in a hands-on lab environment.

“If you want to know how to protect networks, you have to be able to think like a hacker, think outside the box. What do hackers think about when they try to break into a system,” Hau says.

The course started this year and teaches students how perimeter defenses work, how intruders scan networks and escalate privileges, and what steps can be taken to secure a network. Social engineering, DDoS attacks, buffer overflows, virus creation and intrusion detection are among the covered topics.

Foundstone’s course is based on standards and guidelines from the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants’ (EC-Council), which created the Certified Ethical Hacker exam certification.
Ethical hackers are similar to penetration testers, and commonly have jobs within large organizations where they are trusted to uncover weaknesses by penetrating internal networks and computer systems using the same methods as a hacker, according to the EC-Council.

“Hacking is a felony in the United States and most other countries,” the Council states. “When it is done by request and under a contract between an Ethical Hacker and an organization, it is legal.”

Thousands of IT pros have earned the ethical hacking certification over the years, including employees of large organizations like Cisco, Novell, HP, Microsoft, SAP, IBM, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Defense. The certification is intended for security officers, auditors, security professionals, and site administrators. Courses have been offered by numerous companies, including the InfoSec Institute and New Horizons. 

About half the people who take the course already have a good handle on the material, but need the certification, Hau says. The other half are learning entirely new skills, he says.

Though it may seem the technology industry pays constant attention to security, Hau has noticed a certain level of naivete in IT departments. Foundstone performs network assessments for clients, breaking into their systems to discover weak points a hacker might attack. “Half the time [the clients] come back and say ‘why would somebody want to do that?’” Hau notes.

While everyone knows security is important, Hau thinks some network professionals don’t recognize the true danger because they haven’t suffered breaches themselves and incidents are rarely reported publicly. (Compare Patch and Vulnerability Management products)

“Everybody knows there’s an issue out there, but nobody’s aware it’s an issue until it happens to your organization,” Hau says. “People don’t want other people to know what’s happened, so there’s a big disconnect between what’s actually happened out there and what’s been reported in the press.”

Foundstone offers numerous ethical hacking courses, including one called “Ultimate Hacking,” but the Foundstone CEH course is its only course with a certification exam.

The Foundstone CEH course was first offered in January in New York. Eight more five-day sessions are planned for this year in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Denver and New York. Click here for more details on the schedule and to register. The course has a $2,400 fee.

Source: Ethical hacking certification offered by McAfee - Network World

Automatic Updates will begin delivering SP3 to computers in about two months (ie, early summer’ according to the TechNet post where Microsoft made the announcement.)

Since XP SP3 is a collection of previously-released updates, you won’t notice many changes after installing it. However, collecting the updates into one service pack makes it easier to setup new XP systems.

Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 bits are now working their way through our manufacturing channels to be available to OEM and Enterprise customers.

We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter, will be updated then. For customers who use Windows XP at home, Windows XP SP3 Automatic Update distribution for users at home will begin in early summer. 

Thanks to everyone here who installed the public betas – you not only gave us detailed feedback but also helped each other out with timely troubleshooting. Through the beta program we found several important issues and were able to confirm some essential fixes. We couldn’t have done this without you.

We will still be monitoring this forum during the next few weeks in case you have more feedback about the release of Windows XP SP3.

On behalf of myself, Shashank Bansal and Windows Serviceability, many thanks.

Chris Keroack
Release Manager, Windows XP Service Pack 3
Windows Serviceability

Source:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3214173&SiteID=17

Google’s sister site Orkut on April fools day changed its named to yogurt.

People are confused about this but and think its real but its actually just a prank for April fools day. Good for the person who owns yogurt.com he he

Don’t be confused. Its just a prank

Happy April Fool

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Cisco Voice over IP
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Trainer: Jeremy Cioara (Trainer Comments)
Running Time: 11 Hours

This training provides the core knowledge of Voice over IP (VoIP) required for implementing and supporting data and voice integration solutions at the network level. It helps you grasp the VoIP vision, and to answer three major questions most companies have about VoIP solutions:
    * Why are so many companies moving to VoIP?
    * What are the benefits of using VoIP?
    * Is VoIP right for our company?

Once the CVOICE videos help you answer these three questions, they get into the nitty-gritty of VoIP implementation. They teach you how to move an existing PBX or Key System based network to the newer VoIP technology without getting rid of all your old equipment, so you can maximize the cost efficiency of your VoIP implementation. They teach you how to deploy a worldwide VoIP infrastructure, even using lower-end equipment. The videos also cover techniques that allow you to configure your Cisco router to continually monitor the WAN line quality and dynamically change connections as necessary.
“CVOICE [Exam-Pack: 642-432 from CBT Nuggets] not only prepares you for the Cisco exam, but also has multiple practical VoIP deployment videos showing exactly how an administrator would set this up in the real world,” explained instructor Jeremy Cioara.
The videos cover all objectives for the Cisco CVOICE exam 642-432, which is required for CCVP, Cisco IP Telephony Express Specialist and Cisco IP Telephony Support Specialist certifications. A thorough understanding of Cisco networking such as CCNA or equivalent knowledge is recommended before viewing these videos. The training contains 19 videos providing more than 11 hours of instruction.

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- The World Tomorrow: Packetized Telephony
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- Home and Small Office Connections: Configuring Analog Interfaces
- Medium to Large Office Connections: Understanding Digital Interfaces
- Medium to Large Office Connections: Configuring Digital Interfaces
- Buying the Right Stuff: What Router, What Interfaces?
- Dial-Peers: The Rest of the Story, Part 1
- Dial-Peers: The Rest of the Story, Part 2
- Dial-Peers: The Rest of the Story, Part 3
- Voice Protocols: H.323 Concepts and Configuration
- Voice Protocols: SIP Concepts and Configuration
- Voice Protocols: MGCP Concepts and Configuration
- Quality of Service: The Missing Piece, Part 1
- Quality of Service: The Missing Piece, Part 2
- The Good Busy Signal: Call Admission Control
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