SQL Server Magazine will host a webinar on Thursday, March 11th, 2010. During this webinar Microsoft SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard will explain working around complexities in Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and expressor’s director of field engineering Michael Ruland will explore the expressor high-performance ETL alternative for SQL Server.

SpyZooka, from BluePenguin Software, has been eliminating fraudulent programs like DesktopProtector 2010 for more than five years. SpyZooka is backed by BluePenguin Software’s satisfaction guarantee.

Windows 7 appears to be hungrier for RAM than earlier versions of Windows. Despite having an average 3.3GB of memory, XPnet found almost 90 percent of their Win7 machines were maxed out and had to use virtual memory to handle tasks.

To date the Kneber botnet has infected some 74,000 PCs around the world. Classed as a ZeuS Trojan, the malware is used to steal login credentials. This article provides some information on the malware and how to protect yourself against it.

The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has lost almost 800 PCs to what appears to be a malicious code "attack". The machines have had critical files deleted, rendering them un-bootable.

This news is somewhere between funny and sad. The hackers behind the rootkit that caused WinXP machines to blue-screen after Patch Tuesday, "fixed" their code within hours. Now, if your machine is infected, and you apply the patches from Microsoft, you won’t get stuck in a blue-screen.

LinkedIn, Facebook for the business crowd, has released an add-on for Microsoft Outlook. The add-on uses the Outlook Social Connector feature of Office 2010.

Microsoft has announced "end of life" for WinXP in 2014. Twelve years after launching the OS, Microsoft will stop issuing security updates. You may want to start checking now for replacement software or hardware for those applications that only run under WinXP.

According to some surveys, almost half of Windows 7 deployments are the 64-bit version. While this is fine on higher-end machines, there are a lot of low-end machines struggling to run even the 32-bit version.

SQL Server 2005 will be getting Service Pack 4 sometime later this year. Microsoft has bowed to customer demand to extend the life of the product past the original April 2011 date.