It’s been a crazy week, as you all have read. Made none any less crazy by the fact that our Annual Meeting is coming up next week, which brings about it’s own flurry of activity that I haven’t even talked about on here. What do I take away from this week? The whole battle between…
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…
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…
Some interesting points raised by this article about the legalities of wireless access. I think the ending is probably right on: But ultimately if we want to move to ubiquitous wireless computing, where you can use the WiFi protocols for cheap, mobile VOIP communications, or have near universal wireless Internet access, we are going to…
I was able to run in those two conference rooms in between meetings this afternoon, only to discover that they both seem to work fine now. Figures! I’m still going to try and take advantage of the mystery network problem to put together a proposal on using a router with DHCP to give easy internet…
So I checked the switch that conference room was connected to and the port is fine and dandy. I can plug my laptop into the port directly and it has no problem connecting to the network. This is not good. This may mean there’s trouble in the wiring in the walls of that room. I’m…