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| Friday, July 30, 2004
It's an epidemic! I'm declaring spyware and browser hijackings as an epidemic based solely on this: Just about everyone I meet who knows what I do for a living, starts asking me about how to clean this crap out of their systems! Seriously, the guy who does building maintenance for our office just stopped by and asked for some advice on getting rid of a browser hijacker! Here's the list of links I gave him to help: Hijack This! Spyware Info Hijacker Page Spybot S&D Startup Inspector AdAware Then I gave him the standard set of recommended links for anyone with broadband at home: Zone Alarm Grisoft AVG free version Google Toolbar -to block most site popups And, of course, there's always mozilla.org. :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 4:35 PM | 0 comments | 
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Duh... Someone asked me earlier today if they could create a distribution list in the Contacts folder of Outlook and then move it to someone else's Outlook. Since we don't have any sort of shared folders, (We have no real mail server outside of the POP3 our ISP uses and the MS Mail we use internally.) I started trying to find ways to use the import/export engine, and create a .csv or some other complexity like that. It was only after about a half hour of this that it dawned on me that a copy/paste to a network drive, followed by a copy/paste from the network drive to the other Outlook Contacts folder would do the trick just fine. I commited the cardinal sin of IT, I overlooked the obvious answer. I'm blaming it on the fact that I'm mentally already into the weekend! :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 2:10 PM | 0 comments |
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Thursday, July 29, 2004
Don't forget Tomorrow, July 30th, is System Administrator Appreciation Day. So if you're a user, try not to do anything stupid tomorrow, m'kay? Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 9:51 AM | 0 comments |
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
I almost forgot Last night, I did manage to get the pics from our latest vacation up here. Angela had already put her version of events here. Now, where to for the next trip, that is the question... Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 2:53 PM | 0 comments |
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OneNote powertoys If you've already grabbed the OneNote SP1, you might be interested in information about the new OneNote powertoys. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 10:16 AM | 0 comments |
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It's a mystery Going to be in full investigation mode today. One of the PC's here at work, when visiting some website, got 3 different Symantec warnings about Trojan.Trunlow: The virus warnings said "Access Denied" But at the same time stamp, Symantec was shutdown, and some of the password stealer .exe's listed on that page showed up in C:/WINNT/. On the other hand, none of the registry settings were made, and there's no evidence that it tried to actually send out any information, that I've found yet. The IE patch was installed, so in theory, between that being patched and Symantec catching the VBS trojan, none of it should have been allowed to run, but it was. I suppose it's time to go ask some questions of the user. I'm sure that won't provide any real answers. :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 8:45 AM | 0 comments |
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
New MyDoom Worm I started seeing this yesterday, and we're usually a couple of days behind on new outbreaks, simply by virtue of being small and not very cutting edge. By the end of yesterday 20 of them had been intercepted by Postini, more than that have been today. That's a pretty big outbreak for our network. That tells me that either this sucker is running wild out there, or someone we do alot of business with got infected. I'm just glad it wasn't anyone I do tech support for. :) Update: This afternoon one passed through Postini without being detected. Possibly a new-new variant or did Postini miss it because the attachment was zipped? Must look into this one... Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 12:37 PM | 0 comments |
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Office Updates Microsoft has released SP1 for the Office 2003 Suite, OneNote, Visio, etc. Guess I'll be over at the Office Update site for a bit this morning. More later... Update: Installed SP1 for Office 2003 and OneNote. Everything seems to still be working. My OneNote notebook has a new tab called "Helpful Tips" that has, well helpful tips on using OneNote. I'm sure I'll run into some differences as I use Office programs. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 9:55 AM | 0 comments |
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Monday, July 26, 2004
They're trying to kill me.. Remember last week? How half of the day before I went on vacation was spent in a meeting, and the other half getting things ready for me to be gone all week. Well I just found out a little bit ago, that there's a followup meeting to that meeting this afternoon. I'm spending my lunch hour getting other things caught up so I can be at this meeting. The sad thing is, that last meeting was supposed to be the last meeting and our code of ethics was supposed to be finished. I feel like Pacino in the Godfather 3, they just keep pulling me back in! Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 12:39 PM | 0 comments |
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Monday morning Gee and there are 1171 unread items in my aggregator, so here's my attempt at noting things to look at later: The IE Team has a blog! RSS Traffic burdens publisher's servers. -Not a big surprise, but definitely reason to turn off the aggregator every now and then. I generally only poll sites 2-3 times a day. When I have a few spare moments to look at the latest news. Otherwise I turn SharpReader off so it doesn't interefere with doing some work. Top 75 Network Security Tools via Lockergnome Boo Hoo for victims of XP SP2 and the link from that article on managing the Windows firewall on a network. More later, I'm sure... Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 9:24 AM | 0 comments |
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Sunday, July 25, 2004
Pic samples Angela managed to upload a couple of pics to her blog from our recent trip. I'm remarking on this not so much because of the quality of the pics, (I'm in them afterall, how good could they be? ) but because she used Picasa combined with the Hello service to post them to her blog. It was a very easy thing to do, the BloggerBot even resized them for her. I got the feeling she was rather impressed with how easy it was to do. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 1:19 PM | 0 comments |
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Home again Back home tonight, unloading pics from various sources, CF and SD cards, pics that had already been transferred to the laptop, etc. I took a lot more film than usual for this trip, mostly because I had a disposable water-proof Kodak that I was using while in the ocean. We'll see how those turn out sometime in the next few days. Might take a little longer to get an album together and online. Overall, it was really nice to be away from technology (Well, except for getting directions and dealing with photos, but no "work" tech.) and just enjoy the beach, sun, and slow pace of life for awhile. It's going to be hard to find the motivation come Monday morning. :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 12:22 AM | 0 comments |
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