I know I’ve been pretty quiet on all of my blogs the past few days. I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of that time in front of a computer, but not one hooked up to the Internet. Fact is, the particular laptop I’ve been working on for a friend, had no business being on-line until…
It seems that Microsoft has deemed that VML vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 serious enough to warrant releasing a patch out of the normal cycle. Look for it at an update site near you! tags: VMLvulnerability, Microsoft, Patch
If you are still using IE6, or are supporting users who do, you want to take a look at this workaround posted at PC-Doctor that will protect them from the latest spyware exploit, at least until the next patch cycle. Or, you know, you could stay away from those naughty Russian sites. 🙂 tags: Exploit,…
“All I did was try to download a Solitaire game from the Internet” Anyone who’s ever helped someone clean up a spyware infestation knows exactly what I’m talking about. One “innocent” little game came complete with 8 toolbars, 4 startup executables, 3 advertising generators, multiple registry entries, random processes and, ironically enough, an anti-spam program that…
After the long day of technology yesterday, (a full work day followed by a demo of the new Friends website to the Board of Trustees, followed by hours rolling back the Movable Type upgrade gone bad) I was going to work tonight on a problem that I noticed the other day. For some reason, after…
As a quick update to the post about Internet bottlenecks. Our networking folks spent a couple of weeks doing random traffic captures, both inside the firewall and having the ISP do it outside the firewall. Nothing really significant was found, no malware tying up bandwidth, no one streaming video all day long, nothing at all…