McAfee CEO, David DeWalt mentioned recently in New York that the company is working on an anti-virus software product for the iPhone.

Based on the huge popularity of the iPhone it seems that every software maker wants to develop an app for it.  Personally I can’t blame them, with tens of millions of iPhones in the marketplace there’s clearly lots of money to be made.

Symantec on the other hand is working on a product that will back-up critical iPhone data and make it accessible from a PC or the Web.  It is expected that the service will also provide anti-virus scans on the protected data.  Apple’s MobileMe iDisk performs a similar function by allowing you to easily store, access and share files online.

The iPhone is gradually making inroads into the corporate Smartphone market, currently dominated by Blackberry.  One of the issues slowing it’s progress is that some Network Administrators are hesitant to connect the iPhone to their secure corporate network.  One of the major gripes is the lack of encryption on the iPhone and also the inability of software vendors to access the list of sandboxed applications.  If McAfee can prove that their software will provide significant security improvement to the iPhone within a corporate environment this could improve the uptake of the iPhone within companies.

With over 1 Billion iPhone apps downloaded from the Apple App Store since it’s launch in July 2008 it makes sense that this will increase security threats and warrant the development of some sort of iPhone Virus Protection product.

McAfee has not yet given a date for the launch of the anti-virus software for the iPhone.

I’m studying for my CCA 1Y0-259 Citrix Presentation Server 4.5/5.0: Administration exam and if you’ve ever worked with Citrix products or tried to do their certification exams you know that locating their evaluation software and licenses aren’t the easiest things in the world to do.

Luckily I was able to locate some fantastic resources to help find Citrix evaluation software and licenses.

There are two steps to get Citrix Evaluation Products:

1 – Download the software and,

2 – Get a license.

Download Citrix Evaluation Software

You can click here to access the Citrix software download page.  Once at that page you need to select the relevant software that you’re looking for.  NOTE:  If you’re looking for Presentation Server 4.5 you’re out of luck as this product is now known as XenApp 5.0.

Now…..

Download a Citrix Evaluation License

Next you’re going to need to download a license.  To do that click here and you’ll find an excellent step by step guide on how to go about getting an evaluation or developer license for your Citrix Products. NOTE: Within that guide Vishal mentions 2 licensing options:

1 – An evaluation license – You’ll have to contact a reseller to get a 99-user, 90-day eval license.

2 – A XenApp Developer license – This gives you a 2CCU license to evaluate XenApp for 12 months.

If you’re setting up a small test lab environment to play around with or for certification purposes I suggest going with the XenApp Developer license, if you’re looking for a more robust set-up you’ll need to go with the evaluation license.

I’ve bitten the bullet and recently installed Windows 7 on my laptop.  Visually it’s an improvement over Windows XP and its much more user friendly as well. But I’ve used Windows XP for many years as it’s been tried, tested and proven to work with most software applications.

So to get the best of both worlds I’ve decided to download and install Microsoft Virtual PC and install Windows XP on it.  Sounds easy enough and completed it in a flash but I discovered that I couldn’t connect to the Internet within the VPC.

If you’re like me and have problems connecting your Virtual PC to the Internet you might have been searching around for a useful guide for getting this done.  After spending quite a while searching for this myself I found this Virtual PC Internet Configuration Guide from CJ to be the easiest to follow.  It’s structured in a step-by-step fashion and has a lot of pictures.

Make sure that after you follow the instructions on CJ’s guide that you perform the following to renew your ip address:

1 – Within your Windows XP virtual PC click on Start then Run

2 – Type cmd in the Run dialog box

3 – At the command prompt type ipconfig/release and press enter on the keyboard

4 – At the command prompt type ipconfig/renew and press enter on the keyboard

If you followed CJ’s Virtual PC Internet configuration guide and followed the tip above you should have the internet up and running on your virtual pc in a few minutes.