Well, I think the antivirus question I had was answered today. How on earth did something as simple as the gone.scr virus get spread so quickly? Obviously we had some people who we deal with get the virus because it was bouncing into our mail server in no time flat. Seems like at least 5-6…
Wow, there’s nothing like getting to work in the morning, grabbing a cup of coffee (the free crappy office stuff, but, it’s free and unlimited!) and seeing that you’ve already had over 300 hits to the blog today. (And it’s only 8:30AM) It was quite a nice surprise, as was the source of all those…
I suppose, since this is a blog about technology, that I have to comment on “IT” or “Ginger” or “Segway”, whatever you choose to call Dean Kamen’s latest invention . Frankly, I’m not overly impressed. Unlike some others , I don’t want one. I have no need for it, and I don’t typically spend $3000…
Wow, Badtrans just seems to be everywhere doesn’t it? We’re still seeing quite a few copies of it flowing into the generic mailbox we have setup at work. One of my co-workers got it at home over the weekend too. She was asking me first thing this morning about the possibility of it spreading to…
Speaking of firewalls, I ran across a nice little piece that compares the big 3 free personal firewalls, Tiny, ZoneAlrm and Sygate. I was thinking about doing something similar, but heck, I couldn’t really do any better than http://pierre.szwarc.free.fr/uk_Firewall_comparison.pdf
I’ve been messing around a bit with the Hawking PN9245F router that I’ve got the home network and cable modem running through. I put it through some firewall tests and port scans, and it’s got me running in full stealth mode for the moment. Gotta’ love that! It wasn’t even all that difficult to setup…