Here are some details on the zotob worm (s) culled from several sources….
It copies itself to the Windows system folder as BOTZOR.EXE, it modifies the hosts file to frustrate attempts to access antivirus sites. The .b variant copies itself as csm.exe in the Windows System folder. Both variants create a Mutex so that only one copy can run at a time.
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Recently I’ve had an experiment with the way Google crawls a site. I had a client site that had not been spidered in spite of being submitted to Google a good while back. I looked at the site and saw nothing amiss. There was plenty of text on the page everything looked good. I found their page in google but their was no cached text.
Hylafax is a linux server application that can be configured to be the central fax gateway for your business (or home.) Essentially it can deal with queing and sending faxes and receiving them. Faxes can be saved as tiff or pdf files.
Extreme tech has an article talking about building your own render farm. So, you want to rival ILM or WETA? With off the shelf (even used hardware) it’s possible to do amazing things graphically. They discuss several things linux related as the way to go. Also ghost4linux *(g4l) is mentioned.
Sorry, VERY bad pun but I couldn’t resist. I mentioned that I was having tun difficulties that kept me from playing around with anything fancy networking-wise with qemu. For starters let me see if I can explain what tun is. Tun is a method of creating a point-to-point “imaginary” network connection between a program and an operating system. For instance, Qemu sets up a device called /dev/tun0 in the host operating system. This /dev/tun0 can communicate with the kernel and then the outside world. /dev/tun0 behaves just like any other network interface to the viewers on the outside (even getting it’s own ip address that is network reachable.)
The July web browser market share stats show a slight decline for Mozilla Firefox, the first decline since it’s 1.0 launch around 9 months ago. ITFacts is reporting that according to statistics from Netapplications, IE has 87.2%, Firefox 8.07%, Mozilla Suite 0.52%, and Opera 0.49% of the market. (No Safari?)
The upcoming release of StarOffice8 will be delayed until September 12. One possible reason for the delay is extra time to ensure compatibility with the OpenDocument format which will also be in OpenOffice. (Sun’s StarOffice provides the base code for the OpenOffice project.)
I saw this last week but never took the time to mention it. Codeweavers has announced their roadmap for 2005 and 2006. Codeweavers of course is the company that makes crossover office (a wine implementation to allow several windows applications to run under linux). Codeweavers is a major contributor to the Wine project
Sunbeltblog has another entry in the continuing story. Really, there is not much new here, but iDefense has analyzed the code of the trojan that was discovered and have stated that it is not related to CoolWebSearch. (Which is what sunbeltblog has been saying for some time.) They initially said it was discovered during a coolwebsearch infestation.
Flexbeta has a story basically about knoppix and how a computer even without a hard drive can still be useful. Knoppix, of course, is a linux live cd that boots into a full desktop operating system. It has many uses, but flexbeta focuses in on some of the basics: web browsing, checking web based email, streaming audio, playing games, editing office documents and downloading files (to a memory stick or some other usb media.)