As Dana pointed out, this is an interesting article about Microsoft adding a built-in virus scanner to Windows XP SP2. I’m torn, obviously. On one hand, for all those home users who never seem to be able to use AV properly, maybe this isn’t such a bad thing. Although many still won’t remember to update…
The reports I can pull include a report on traffic by recipient, which includes email addressed to accounts that don’t exist. The woman who used to be listed as our website’s contact when you did a Whois search hasn’t worked here in almost 4 years. Her address was last accesible by doing a Whois more…
This article really says it all about virus alerts coming from email gateways. After blocking a flood of Mydoom e-mails, it spams users with alerts that create a general panic. That’s true even in small offices. You’ve got other email gateways sending back virus warnings in response to emails with spoofed “from” addresses as well…
So Angela’s parents were staying with us this weekend, and her dad brought his Palm with him. Now, ordinarily he uses this to sync notes and other things and he hasn’t, in the short time he’s had this one, made any attempts to use the built-in wireless. Since we have wireless running around the house,…
Andy, in the comments on those Postini posts I made late last week, asked about false negatives, email that got blocked as spam but really wasn’t. I told him that since I don’t use my email account to get newsletters or other “bulk” type emails, my account may not be the best measurement of how…
My pics from DC are up you can see them here. Some of you may have noticed that tomorow is my wife’s birthday. Since she gets up earlier than I do to head out to work in the morning, I’m posting this tonight so she’ll see it in the morning. I hope you have a…