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Gary Wheeler wrote: I don't think McAfee is competent to pull off any kind of extortion scheme.
Hmmm. I'm pretty sure they are an extortion scheme: have you ever tried to remove their software once installed? 
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Yes. The uninstall procedure was as follows:
1. Boot from a thumb drive.
2. Security wipe the primary drive.
3. Re-install Windows.
4. Re-install apps.
5. Reload data.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The official method is more fun: How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus - YouTube[^] - probably NSFW, it starts with the "F" word ...
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modified 3-Mar-17 10:54am.
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That might get a slightly, teensy weensy bit NSFW. Just saying.
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I'd forgotten that it starts with the "F" word ... edited. 
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... and there are quite a lot of girls who obviously didn't take their mam's advice to dress up warm. Or to dress at all for that matter.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: I can't believe some of the crap they convince corporate IT departments to buy
How do you think Microsoft did so well? The office suite is some of the worst written software I have ever encountered, and yet.....
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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That sounds like a TPM-based encryption....
This should only be an issue if someone isn't backing up the TPM keys.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Let me put it this way. Every time we've needed to recover a hard drive, the attempt has failed. That's why my group has their own servers, running without the corporate encryption, and our working data is backed up to those servers nightly.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Security isn't doing their job then. It might be a good thing to remind them that Availability IS a leg in the triad.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Take a look at:
https://kc.mcafee.com/resources/sites/MCAFEE/content/live/PRODUCT_DOCUMENTATION/24000/PD24871/en_US/de_710_detech_user_guide_en-us_Rev.B.pdf
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Talk to your manager - corporate rules don't have to make sense, but you flaunt them at your own risk. Many companies will start disciplinary processes for using "unapproved" sites and / or apps on company equipment.
Just sayin', is all.
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I will if this goes any further. This just pisses me off.
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Take it to your manager and let him take it further: then you can at least blame him if it all goes pear shaped!
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Given how pear-shaped things already are in this place, I don't think anybody would notice. Grumble, grumble...
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Don't forget to talk to him about all the time and money you wasted taking care of that.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The correct procedure is of course to ask the IS dweebs to show you the audit of the software on *their* machines. Oh and while you're there, their browser history
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Most people only learn just barely enough to do their jobs, so they simply just do not know better. I'd talk to someone higher up and get it sorted out.
Jeremy Falcon
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The project I'm working on gathers data from various other teams.
Some provide extracts in Excel (ptui) and they say they can't provide it any other way  .
So we use the ACE Engine and SSIS' Excel Source component to read the data into SQL Server.
We've been doing this for years.
And just recently the wombats in security said, "Oh, no, you have Office installed on your servers, we can't have that". 
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You must work for the US government. 
It's amazing the "logic" they use to block website here on an Air Force base. For example, we have an MSDN subscription, and the MSDN website itself isn't blocked, but the MSDN website uses CSS, images, etc from another site which IS blocked. You should see how MSDN shows up in our web browsers. We can't access the downloads that we pay for. No one in Information Assurance really cares. So we access our work MSDN account from home, download what we need, and bring it in on DVD which has to go thru quite a rigmarole to be approved. It's probably better that way though - our download speed here on our government networks is around 80 to 100K. Seriously.
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Nope, but I do understand. I worked as a defense contractor back during the 80's, and I remember similar nonsense when I worked at our local AFB.
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Hi Team,
I am seeing one of the code using redgum dlls as references. Which i am not able to find anywhere in Nuget or the other place in the internet.
Can anyone please let me know where can i get them.
Regards
Gopala
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Maybe in a technical forum? You are here in the social one.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Techies social? Next you'll accuse us of having yucky things like wives and children!
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Wives and children are great. They can slide pizza under the door to you while you're coding.
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