Yes, this weekend our mail server blocked 542 copies of the NetSky virus in all it’s variations before they reached my end users. Apparently quite a few people out there in the world have been more than a little careless about opening attachments. So much for hoping that end users would learn not to do things that cause virus infections!
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I have an offer on the table for a small, free Unix hosting account for my child abuse stuff to have a home of it’s own. The person responsible for this offer has chosen to remain anonymous, but suffice it to say that I am deeply appreciative and would give him all the free publicity…
Given just the vast number of virus emails that hit one of our users’ inboxes this morning, I would guess that someone he knows managed to get a virus. But upon further inspection, and the realization that there are copies of Klez, Hybris, and maybe some other one’s floating around in those messages, I’m thinking…
Don’t you just hate when an extension update kills off your whole Firefox installation and you have to completely uninstall it, delete all the profile info and start over? Yeah me too. Goodbye Tabbed Browser Extensions. Going to try it with the Tabbed Browser Preferences extension instead. Update: a response from Craig with some interesting…
After a planned three-day weekend and an un-planned illness caused me to also miss Friday, making for a long 4 day weekend, I returned to the office this morning to find that nothing’s broken. That’s a good thing. There was something broken on Friday, as someone decided that Friday, without me being around, would be…
Note to self: Later, read through all the responses to this slashdot thread about what you would include in an IT toolkit. Looks like there are some pretty good tools and ideas running around in there, but I need to do some work and can’t really look at them all right now. (link via nf0)…
So last night, after trying to get some html files into a readable format for my PocketPC (A plus study notes mostly.) I had a thought. “What if I could just take the text of the files and make a quick and dirty Microsoft Reader file out of it?” That would solve the difficulty I…