Gee you know it’s pretty serious business when a worm shows as the headline on the Drudge Report, eh?
For the record, after reading through the SlashDot synopsis and following the various links it appears to be a worm using an old MS SQL vulnerability that Microsoft released a patch for back in June and some sites, obviously, didn’t get the patch applied. Tsk, tsk…
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Just saw this post over at PC-Doctor, where he talks about DiamondCD RegistryProt 2.0, a tool that keeps an eye on your PC’s registry and let’s you know if any malware tries to make changes to it. I might have to check that out, if nothing else it’s another layer of free protection for your…
As someone who still works with NT 4.0 servers in my professional life, I wasn’t thrilled when MS didn’t come up with a patch for an RPC vulnerability. On the other hand, I already have our NT 4.0 server behind a firewall with port 135 blocked, so it’s really not that big a deal. I…
I have only used Thunderbird for about two days when I noticed that version 0.4 was available over the weekend. I don’t know whether it’s better, I was still figuring out what was in 0.3 so I don’t really know what’s new, but I downloaded it and replaced the 0.3. Consider this your head’s up…
I found the source of the spyware, took me awhile to track it but fantasy baseball message boards came to the rescue. I had a feeling that if the problem existed on that site, and I just wasn’t seeing it, that those fantasy baseball folks would be talking about it. Apparently the ads I got…
Got a surprise break away from the world of computers this evening. Some very dear friends of ours decided to have a surprise dinner a couple of days early for my birthday. Thank you, Mary and Howard, for a wonderful treat, and thank you, Angela for helping to arrange it. They have just returned from…
OK, now that I’ve finally gotten work caught up, maybe now I can stand to look at a computer screen when I go home and get some other projects done! I tried last night, and actually did get some work done as far as getting some resumes out to various places, and grabbing a couple…