I'm jumping ship to rejoin the startup world and begin a new endeavor building a community from scratch: http://growersnetwork.org/ (insert your weed jokes here).

I'll still hang out on here, just not officially representing Webroot. I'm still happy to answer any Webroot questions and help you get in touch with the right people at Webroot if you need help. We'll get a replacement for me once they can hire someone, but in the meantime I'll fill in.

I'll be working from home now, so anyone passing through Colorado let me know so I can have an opportunity to get out of the house and socialize with people in person

Got keycode cards to give out. The best swag is free product, right?

https://www.automox.com/remote

For those of you having to scramble to move everyone to wfh, we're giving 60 days of free Automox. If you have a patching solution that's on-prem, then this could be a temporary substitute and make it easier for you to keep everyone safe and up to date while they're remote. That way people will get patched even if they're not on the VPN.

We promise we won't call or email you as a followup. We're not trying to get leads out of this, just trying to help everyone weather the storm together.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
–Andrew Tanenbaum

http://www.slapkirk.com/

Everyone else is doing it:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/improving-your-personal-brand-writing-bullshit-nic-tolstoshev

http://imgur.com/b4Ooqum

Woot!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2470312,00.asp

http://www.webroot.com/blog/2015/12/16/it-at-home-for-the-holidays/

A few tips to make the obligatory family tech support not quite as headache inducing.

Apparently it's going to be 100% new so:

1. none of the original actors
2. no Joss Whedon

Which makes me less excited.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/firefly-reboot-disney.html

@scottalanmiller I bet they're regretting letting Tom Limoncelli leave them for Stack Exchange right about now

Longest birthday thread evar - happy birthday @Dominica !

@scottalanmiller I saw some job postings from Basecamp the fitness company be linked to Basecamp the tech company. They're probably trying to autolink stuff together and royally screwing it up.

@EddieJennings said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

What special case needs UAC completely off?

I'm curious about this as well.

Installing malware

We're going to have fun contests, trivia, prizes and general goofiness:
https://patch.automox.com/2020-sysadmin-day-celebration

There's a wormable exploit that has a patch out:

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1350

Until you patch, hackers can send a malformed packet to your DNS server and exploit that to run a remote code execution.

@stacksofplates Sorry about that - feel free to leave the website off that field and then mention it in your cover letter if it's important for the application.

@stacksofplates Yes that one is ok with remote.