From a Register article: “Symantec has turned off this auto-responder feature by default for the last two years but systems admins insist on turning it back on, according to Chris Miller, a Symantec mail security product manager.” Well I guess I can quit blaming Symantec for all those “virus bounce” messages and start blaming email…
The station I usually tune into at work, WOXY, is in it’s final days. The owners sold the station and it will cease broadcasting, and net-casting. The station was a constant companion on many a road trip down to the Cincinnati area for years, and when they starting webcasting it became constant companion through the…
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…
Some interesting stuff, but no closer to a final conclusion of how it got there. The installer ran an XML file to get it’s updates. The XML file instructed it to download 4 files from download.statblaster.com. Those files were MemoryWatcher-b.exe, all_files9.exe, tracker.exe and FixIt.exe. Those in turn come bundled with their own “extras” and in…
Seems the new relaunch of Blogger gave people the opportunity to grouse once again about Blogger’s use of Atom instead of RSS. Fair enough. To add a bit more fuel to the fire, the dirty little secret is that the old BloggerPro accounts do support both. Notice how my feed is RSS, version 0.91, I…
One of my users got hit with spyware today. It seems they went to a website that used either an ActiveX or popup javascript to drop an .exe file in their Temp folder at 8:59AM. This .exe then went to work and by 10AM his PC was infected with eZula, eXact search, WhenUsearch, MaxSpeed, Bargain…