Monthly Archives: July 2008

Alert Win32/Exploit.MSword.SMtag trojan - Nod32

The following message “Win32/Exploit.MSword.SMtag trojan” was being generated by Nod32 when attempting to compress MS Word documents that were part of a file package.

The initial thought was that the their machines have been infected or compromised. However after digging around this Nod32 error was actually due to Virus Signature Database version: 3217. This is outlined [...]

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Disable Internet Explorer 7 Run Once using Group policy

 In this post I will discuss how to disable the very annoying feature of Internet Explorer 7: Run Once using group policy.
When Internet Explorer 7 is first launched the following welcome screen is displayed.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Froqu3.com%2Fdisable-internet-explorer-7-run-once-using-group-policy%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Disable+Internet+Explorer+7+Run+Once+using+Group+policy’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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