For purposes of telling this story, names have been changed to protect the innocent. One of the people I work with, Chuck, got fooled into opening a spam email today, because the “sender” name was someone else who works here, Bob. It was a “hi I’d like to go out sometime check out my profile…
I’ve got invoicing to do this morning, but these things in my aggregator need a further look: An IT Manager’s Insight into Mobile Security. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer version 1.2 is out. TV commercials come to the web. More crap, just what we need. PubSub.com -looks like an interesting concept, sort of like Google News…
If this is truly an accurate description of the Beagle virus emails how else do we explain the fact that it spread anywhere, let alone numerous times? “The worm arrives in an e-mail file attachment with a randomly generated name and EXE extension. E-mail messages containing the worm have the subject “Hi” and a message…
But then again, the downside to the three day weekend is that it takes a day just to get back in the groove in the office! I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing or what I’m supposed to be doing! 🙂
Three day weekend? Excellent! Ice/Sleet/Snow and bitter cold all weekend leaving you pretty much cooped up in the house? Not so excellent! I have managed to get some things done around the house, do a little blogroll cleaning, played some NHL 2K2, watched both football games yesterday, and just generally relax while Angela’s out of…
No there’s nothing like spending 45 minutes of a Friday morning on a conference call with a bunch of tech folks working for our ISP, trying to get some clear idea of what policies and filtering they have in place now, and what new ones are coming, only to come to the conclusion that we…