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Recover Exchange Server Databases with Exchange Recovery Wizard
Exchange Recovery Wizard is a data recovery solution for damaged Microsoft Exchange Server databases in the EDB or STM formats. The program also provides a conversion utility for converting healthy databases between the EDB and PST formats. It supports all Exchange Server versions from 5.5 to 2010 making it one of the most versatile and compatible Exchange recovery solutions available. When you use this solution to recover data from a corrupted database, any recoverable data is exported into a personal storage file (PST). PST files are readable using Microsoft Outlook and a wide variety of other compatible solutions. In the newest version of Exchange Recovery Wizard, you can also view and extracted selected items from email databases using the data browser utility.
Many businesses use Microsoft Exchange on a daily basis and losing important data can have disastrous consequences which often lead to a major financial loss. Fortunately, most of these situations can be remedied before any major problems occur. Exchange Recovery Wizard makes this possible with its reliable and efficient tools. Not only will at recover any folders or messages that it finds in the database files; it can also recover email attachments. The database browser component makes it easy to restore data from corrupted containers in virtual disk formats such as VHDD, BKF and VMDK. Other items which can be recovered include creation dates for any object, contacts lists, appointments, tasks and notes. Even formatting is recoverable from email using RTF or HTML formatting.
Exchange Recovery Wizard is a user-friendly solution which does not require any special user skills. It provides a wizard-driven interface to help ensure that users of any level of experience can easily and quickly recover data. Installation is also straightforward.
Data Browser is a bundled feature included in the latest version of Exchange Recovery Wizard. Although it is included with the recovery software, it also provides a separate data recovery utility which is useful for extracting individual items from damaged databases. This solution is ideal if you find that the standard data recovery wizard fails to recover all data. It’s also useful in cases where the source file is so large that it becomes less practical to use the wizard. In cases where you only need to recover a few selected items, Data Browser is ideal.
Exchange Recovery Wizard has minimal system requirements and will work on any version of Windows from Windows 2000 to Windows 8. Hardware requirements are minimal and the solution will run on older systems with no problem. The only other requirement is the amount of disk space necessary to recover a particular source file. You’ll need free disk space equal to at least one and a half times the size of the damaged database.
Exchange Recovery Wizard supports Exchange Server 2010 as well, including all of the latest updates and service packs. Databases of any size can be recovered, even if they are several hundred gigabytes in size! Learn more about the Exchange recovery software at officerecovery.com/exchange. You can also buy the software online.
Just What The Heck Is Spyware, Anyway? (Page 1 of 2)
What Is Spyware? It goes by different names. Spyware, adware and malware are some of the more popular monikers. It really doesn’t matter what you call it, though. The bottom line is that you don’t want it on your computer. First of all, let me state for the record that I think the internet is a wonderful thing. I think a majority of people would agree that the World Wide Web has made life for all of us a little more convenient. Whether it’s reserving a hotel room, buying music online, checking the local weather or any number of thousands of useful sites (did I mention email?) we all have gotten a little bit spoiled with having all this information right at our fingertips. That being said though, sometimes we seem to get a little complacent and let our guard down. We forget that the internet has a seedy side full of ways for unscrupulous people to con honest (if not a little niaeve) people out of their money (or worse!). In this article, I’ll cover a few of the pitfalls that many people tend to have trouble with.
Adware: This type of malware is designed to do one thing and one thing only. Get you to buy something. Once this type of software has infected your computer, you will start getting a lot of pop-up ads. Sometimes these ads are the pop-under type. Pop-under’s get by any pop-up blockers by generating an ad without stealing the focus from the web page that your viewing. You usually won’t even know it’s there until you close your browser and see the ad (or ads) displayed on your desktop. Generally, this type of malware is little more than an annoyance, but sometimes multiple instances can cause major slowdowns in your PC or even cause system crashes. Adware is usually bundled with some other “free” software such as free desktop wallpaper, icons or screensavers. It may or may not be disclosed in the end-user license agreement (EULA) of the free software, but even when it is, most people never read those agreements anyway. If you want to protect your computer from this type of malware, you should ALWAYS be suspicious of free software.
Spyware: Spyware does exactly what it’s name implies. It spies on you. Well, actually it spies on your web surfing and purchasing habits. The information that is collected is usually then sold to unscrupulous vendors who target you with spam email. Again, this type of marketing is usually just an annoyance, but anytime your privacy is compromised (especially by some sleazy dirtbag who will do anything to make a buck) there is cause for concern.
Trojan Horses: Sometimes simply known as “Trojans”, these, in my humble opinion, are the worst offenders. If you know the story of the Trojan War, then the name given to these vicious baddies will make perfect sense to you. Here’s the way it works: You are happily surfing along the internet, minding your own business, when all of the sudden a banner pops up and cheerfully anounces that you have won a FREE IPHONE (or a free laptop computer, or a free vacation, etc.). All you have to do to claim this generous prize, it seems, is to “CLICK HERE!”. Trust me on this one, do not ever, EVER, “CLICK HERE!”. BIG MISTAKE! What you’re doing with that click, is allowing malware to be downloaded to your computer that will make your life miserable and, as an added bonus, you’ll never get your free prize.
Just What The Heck Is Spyware, Anyway? (Page 1 of 2)
What Is Spyware? It goes by different names. Spyware, adware and malware are some of the more popular monikers. It really doesn’t matter what you call it, though. The bottom line is that you don’t want it on your computer. First of all, let me state for the record that I think the internet is a wonderful thing. I think a majority of people would agree that the World Wide Web has made life for all of us a little more convenient. Whether it’s reserving a hotel room, buying music online, checking the local weather or any number of thousands of useful sites (did I mention email?) we all have gotten a little bit spoiled with having all this information right at our fingertips. That being said though, sometimes we seem to get a little complacent and let our guard down. We forget that the internet has a seedy side full of ways for unscrupulous people to con honest (if not a little niaeve) people out of their money (or worse!). In this article, I’ll cover a few of the pitfalls that many people tend to have trouble with.
Adware: This type of malware is designed to do one thing and one thing only. Get you to buy something. Once this type of software has infected your computer, you will start getting a lot of pop-up ads. Sometimes these ads are the pop-under type. Pop-under’s get by any pop-up blockers by generating an ad without stealing the focus from the web page that your viewing. You usually won’t even know it’s there until you close your browser and see the ad (or ads) displayed on your desktop. Generally, this type of malware is little more than an annoyance, but sometimes multiple instances can cause major slowdowns in your PC or even cause system crashes. Adware is usually bundled with some other “free” software such as free desktop wallpaper, icons or screensavers. It may or may not be disclosed in the end-user license agreement (EULA) of the free software, but even when it is, most people never read those agreements anyway. If you want to protect your computer from this type of malware, you should ALWAYS be suspicious of free software.
Spyware: Spyware does exactly what it’s name implies. It spies on you. Well, actually it spies on your web surfing and purchasing habits. The information that is collected is usually then sold to unscrupulous vendors who target you with spam email. Again, this type of marketing is usually just an annoyance, but anytime your privacy is compromised (especially by some sleazy dirtbag who will do anything to make a buck) there is cause for concern.
Trojan Horses: Sometimes simply known as “Trojans”, these, in my humble opinion, are the worst offenders. If you know the story of the Trojan War, then the name given to these vicious baddies will make perfect sense to you. Here’s the way it works: You are happily surfing along the internet, minding your own business, when all of the sudden a banner pops up and cheerfully anounces that you have won a FREE IPHONE (or a free laptop computer, or a free vacation, etc.). All you have to do to claim this generous prize, it seems, is to “CLICK HERE!”. Trust me on this one, do not ever, EVER, “CLICK HERE!”. BIG MISTAKE! What you’re doing with that click, is allowing malware to be downloaded to your computer that will make your life miserable and, as an added bonus, you’ll never get your free prize.