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HP Respond to Criticism on MediaSmart Server Performance Issues

Over the past few days a number of articles online highlighted a pretty major performance hit on the HP MediaSmart Server following the installation of the PVConnect and McAfee add-ins included in HP's latest update. We asked HP what was going on - here's what they told us...

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F-Secure Home Server Security 2009 Release Candidate Available

Yesterday, Finnish security specialist F-Secure announced the availability of F-Secure Home Server Security 2009 Release Candidate to beta testers. The anti-virus software protects content stores on your home server from viruses, worms, trojans and other spyware.

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Review: F-Secure Home Server Security (Beta)

Up until now in the world of the Windows Home Server, when it comes to anti-virus products there really has only been one choice - Avast! windows Home Server Edition. Now there’s a bit of competition with the recent release of the F-Secure Home Server Security beta. When I was planning this article I thought I would [...]

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F-Secure Home Server Security Beta Released

F-Secure have just announced the availability of a beta of their F-Secure Home Server Security product for Windows Home Server. So we now have another option to secure our WHS systems. This beta comes over 11 months after  F-Secure announced that it had been selected by Microsoft as the first data security vendor for Windows Home [...]

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HP Update Regarding the Windows Home Server Data Corruption Bug

I had the opportunity to catch up with Allen Buckner from the HP MediaSmart team yesterday, regarding progress on the data corruption bug. He told me that HP share Microsoft’s point of view that the bug has only hit a very small percentage of their customers, although reiterating that whilst it’s an obscure bug, it [...]

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Will We See OneCare for Windows Home Server?

Joe Wilcox revealedlast week that Microsoft are preparing a new version of Windows Live OneCare for Windows Server - the product will be bundled with Windows Small Business Server and Essential Server 2008, providing 12 months of free anti-virus protection for those systems. Given the relationship between SBS and WHS (and the closeness of the teams [...]

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HP Moves MediaSmart Server Update Back to April

We’ve just heard from HP that they will be moving their planned February update for the HP MediaSmart Server back a couple of months to early April due to the need for “additional testing”. The update, announced in early January, is set to bring a suite of new features to the MediaSmart Server, including enhanced media streaming from [...]

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Review: avast! Anti Virus Windows Home Server Edition

There seems to be an ongoing debate as to whether or not you actually need an anti-virus solution on your Windows Home Server or not. One school of thought says that if you are running up to date anti-virus software on all of your client machines then you don’t need it, the other says you [...]

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CES 2008: Day 2…

Tuesday was Day 2 and CES, and I still feel like I’ve only just scratched the surface of this show - all the articles you read about the size and scale of CES - it’s true, but then double the size and scale you actually think it is. Then add aching feet and 150000 people in [...]

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Congratulations to Our Avast! AntiVirus WHS Edition Winners!

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s Avast AntiVirus WHS Edition Competition. Congratulations go to: M Weldon, USA Freddie, USA Lucasz Foks, Poland Who each win a copy of the software. We’ll have another giveaway up on the site for you all soon!

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