Configure Office 365 in Outlook 2010 manually
If auto-discovery in your Office 365 account is configured properly, setting Microsoft Outlook is very simple - only information you need to is email address and password.
However, if auto-discovery is not yet configured or is not working properly, here is how to configure Outlook 2010 manually
Police Central e-crime Unit Virus (ransomware)
An interesting looking infection I stumbled upon recently. As soon as Windows boots, the above message would be displayed full screen, without any way to close it. Task manager and other Windows features were disabled. Owner of this laptop, obviously not very IT literate, was pretty concerned, not sure whether the message was genuine or not.
Windows 7 spinning circle mouse pointer issue
Issue
Sony VAIO laptop keeps displaying spinning circle mouse pointer. This happens every 10-15 seconds and lasts 5 seconds or so.
Cause
This doesn't seem to affect computer performance too much, but it could be because was a a hi-spec Core i7 + SSD laptop. Task Manager didn't provide many clues - none of the processes was consuming unusually large chunk of system resources.
Sophos antivirus false-positive SHH/Updater-B
This morning all computers running Sophos Antivirus reported various files as infected with SHH/Updater-B virus.
This was a clear false positive and Sophos promptly issued a fix in detection updates released 19 Sep 21:32. Unfortunately most of the affected systems were not able to automatically download definition updates anymore...
False-positive seem to have affected various auto-update packages, including Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and last but not least Sophos auto-update itself! Quarantined or even deleted auto-update files crippled Sophos antivirus and it was no longer able to auto-update or even properly run.
Sophos published constantly updated knowledgebase article trying to cover all possible scenarios.
My solution was:
- Centrally disable on-access scanning in Sophos Control Centre > Configure Scanning.
- Delete all affected machines from Sophos Control Center
- Re-protect all deleted machines via Sophos Control Centre again.
This re-installs Sophos on client machines with latest definition updates and replaces all missing or damaged files.
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