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We all agree that one anti adware and spyware software is a must. However owing more than one is really not important for several reasons. The first and worse is the fact that it can be dangerous if you are not familiar with these type of software.

1. Owning more than one software of the same kind like two antispyware and adware software can actually cause certain type of backups deleted.

When you scan your computer with software A, this creates backups and sometimes important backups if any infection is found. Then when you scan with software B, it also create backups. However when you scan, software B will also find the backup files created by software A.

You then proceed to delete infections but you will be actually deleting the important backups made by software A.

The backups usually contain infected files also known as quarantined files. These should not be deleted cause they may be important for computer to work properly. They can only be deleted after a certain period of time or if user knows for sure they are not very important.

2. Having too many software running will slow down your computer. Actually other worse things can happen. For example a software might not work properly when another one is operating at the same time.

You may be familiar with those software that have real time protection. One of them may function bad if you use another one at same time.

The real problem with adware and spyware is not which software to use or not to use. Software serve only as a cure in case you get infected. Protection is better than cure.

Now protection is done by following certain guidelines and mainly avoid certain type of websites. That means you do not try to visit them or leave at once if you happen to do so.

These are illegal websites, most often those that give cheats or cracks which both mean same thing more or less. The porn sites and the badly designed sites. These are the sites that still use more than one popup. Serious companies do not make use of more than one popup and they have professional websites not horrible sites with banners and useless stuff with no benefit to the visitor.

A general rule is to use popular services when surfing or searching the Internet. Go where the crowd is going. There are hundreds of sites like yahoo, google and msn. There are hundreds of free multi player games or music download sites. But use the ones most people use.

Get feedback from the new, popular and free service known as Yahoo Answers. You get recommendations that way from people who already visited the websites you are looking for. That is better than searching for them yourself. http://www.answers.yahoo.com I am showing you how common sense helps a lot even on the Internet.

Now that is the protection which automatically removes 90% of the risk. The anti spyware and adware software serve as the cure in case you accidentally get infected.

However certain type of anti spyware and adware software serve also as protection, not just a cure. That means they have real time protection. That means they work when you are online. You see the icon near the clock, right hand side of the screen.

These are the type of software you should have. Just one is enough so you do not create problems with your antivirus or other anti spyware and adware software.

Remember you need only one software of each type. There are three types. The anti adware and spyware, antivirus and firewall software.

The ones that have no real time protection can only remove your infections while others protect, stop and block the danger before it can infect your computer. The others have all the other features as well, they have that indispensable protection. This is a feature that most free software do not have and that is why they are free.

So keep in mind that protection is better than cure. You do not just rely on your anti spyware and adware software. You should also avoid the dangerous websites and make sure you have just one of the three types of Internet security software. The anti virus, firewall and anti adware and spyware software.

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What’s the single biggest cost you have as a Mainframe manager? Software licensing costs – the regular costs required to run software, and to get support if it breaks. This article gives ten ways to bring these costs down to earth.

Check you really need it.
Don’t laugh. This sounds obvious, but it’s only too easy for software that is no longer needed to slip through the cracks. For example, you may have some software that was originally needed for CICS applications that have since moved elsewhere.

You may also have software licensed for all z/OS images, but only used on one.

Check you really use it.
As your Mainframe workload changes over time, it’s only too easy for the use of a software product to quietly decline without Mainframe managers noticing. You may be paying thousands of dollars for a product that only a couple of people are actually using.

You need to regularly analyse the usage of your software, and schedule the removal of any software no longer needed.

Check you don’t have two products doing the same thing.
You may use all your software, but have two software products performing the same or similar function. You need to fully understanding your software inventory, and exactly how each product is used.

Investigate sub-capacity pricing.
Most software licensing charges are based on the size of each LPAR running that software – the MSU rating. You can find this value from the IBM website or a program to call IBM’s IWMQVS service.

A few years ago IBM introduced another option: Sub-Capacity Pricing. This is where your software licensing charges are based on your CPU usage, not on your LPAR size. So software running on a lesser-used LPAR will be cheaper. It also makes upgrades easier to justify as you don’t get hit by increased software charges with the larger processor.

IBM isn’t the only vendor offering Sub-Capacity Pricing. Other vendors such as BMC and CA are also jumping on the bandwagon.

Reorganise your LPARs.
Many sites now run at least one ‘capped’ LPAR, meaning that the CPU resources available to it are artificially capped using Workload Manager (WLM). Software that is charged on MSU rating is run in this capped LPAR, reducing costs.

Users of Sub-Capacity pricing may consider doing the opposite: consolidating LPARs. This reduces CPU consumption by reducing the overhead of running a z/OS image.

Investigate similar products.
Compare the price of competing products, and consider moving to cheaper ones. For example, SAS users may consider the SAS replacement product WPS by World Programming.

It’s true that in some cases moving to different products can be very difficult and expensive. However it isn’t necessarily so, and many vendors offer migration tools to ease this pain.

Tune your systems.
Tuning your systems reduces CPU usage (good for Sub-Capacity pricing users), and delays upgrades to larger processors.

Move off the Mainframe.
Mainframe CPU resources are expensive when compared with other platforms. So it may be worth considering migrating some of your workload. For example:

Software products such as Tachyon Assembler Workbench and Microfocus Mainframe Express allow you to perform Mainframe software development on Windows and UNIX platforms.
Some products such as Websphere Enterprise Service Bus and CICS Transaction Gateway daemon run on both z/OS and other platforms.

Some workloads may easily be moved to other platforms. SOA and related services now makes Mainframe services and data easier to access from other platforms.

Upgrade your Mainframe.
For the past couple of zSeries processor generations IBM has been providing a 10% MSU ‘discount’. In other words, a z10 processor will have an MSU rating that is around 10% lower than an equivalent z9 processor. This translates to software license cost savings.

Invest in Speciality Processors.
IBM now offers Speciality Processors such as the Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) and Application Assist Processor (zAAP). These special processors cannot do ‘normal’ work, but can be given specific work by normal Mainframe processors. This can improve the performance of Java applications and other subsystems such as DB2. But the interesting advantage is that the work done by these processors doesn’t count towards your CPU usage if you use Sub-Capacity Pricing.

Many new software products are also off-loading work onto these Speciality Processors, including software from BMC and CA.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that implementing any of these ten methods is a large project, and needs to be performed regularly. However you do have some tools to make this easier.

Usage Software. IBMs Tivoli License Compliance Manager (replacing Isogon SoftAudit for z/OS and Ubiquity Dorana) will automatically list all software installed, who uses it, and how often.
Security Software. Mainframe security software has facilities that can help you track software usage. For example, enabling RACF program control to log access to specific programs can tell you who is using a product, and how often.
IBM. IBM provide a free Sub-Capacity planning tool to help you plan for Sub Capacity licensing.
Software Vendors. Ask them for information about software products you already have, and alternatives they may have for your existing software.

Your Systems Programmer. You secret weapon in the fight against software licensing costs. Systems Programmers install and customise all your z/OS software, so they usually know what it does, and possibly who uses it. They can also setup monitoring to determine who is using which software and how often, and will be your scout when looking for alternative software products and freeware.

So there’s ten ways to reduce software licensing costs. Regularly committing time and resources to managing your software licenses will almost certainly pay big dividends to your Mainframe budget.

David Stephens is a System z Mainframe Technical Specialist with over 18 years experience. He is currently the Lead Systems Programmer with the Australian mainframe consulting company Longpela Expertise http://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au

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