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…
Interesting observation day. I had a bunch of errands to run today, mostly involved with ordering stuff for a holiday party my wife and I are having next weekend. I had interaction with 3 different people who I needed to get help from. All of them were extremely helpful, and nice and went out of…
BadTrans is out there and looking quite active, at least based on the number of infected emails I’ve seen come bouncing into our network here at work. We did have one person get infected, two days after I posted a warning about it, and instructions on dealing with it, which is quite frustrating. Turns out…