I suppose this was just a matter of time, eh? And I suppose that Symantec is rating it such a low risk because, really, who would be dumb enough to open this sort of attachment? Well, there’s a news story about it, so I bet there are some folks who have… 🙂
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Gee a good hoax never dies does it? We just got a fax from someone warning us that they had the jdbgmgr.exe virus, Yes, they were so worried about the fact that they might have sent infected email that they printed off the warning and faxed it to everyone in their address book, most of…
Here’s the situation. We have 3 scanners in the office, hooked to 3 machines. Two are setup in offices of people who use them quite often, and get the scanning done for just about all of the office. The third is in my office, and rarely ever gets used. (I’m not even clear on why…
Rick Klau has some interesting comments about Gmail. I do think this is just the beginning for where Google is headed with this. I envision big things. I didn’t sign up for an account for a long time, even though as a Blogger user I was eligible, because personally I still like living in Outlook…
Last week, we talked about how much people listen to outside IT people compared to internal people. Remember that? This morning we have exhibit #1: I got an email from one of my users. One of his business contacts had forwarded him an email about virus warnings that she had gotten from their IT Department….
My attempt to install Red Hat 8.0 did not go as planned. While the iso downloaded OK, and the MD5 Checksum matched, apparently the CD I burned for Disk 1 was bad. After a number of attempts to install either hung or spit back an error about being unable to read such and such, I…
I’m a day late on this, but didn’t want to let it go without mentioning the day, and the importance of better password management. Several times people choose easy-to-remember passwords rather than focusing on security. With the rising concerns over data breaches and troves of usernames and passwords being dumped on the dark web every…