Classic Tech Tips Archive

A number of New York state employees and a number of cadets at West Point were targetted in a recent phishing scheme. This one was perpetrated by the good guys though to wake them up to how realistic…

Just a quick note to mention that Symantec has posted a removal tool for Esbot(.A). They previously had manual instructions only. They also have updated their Zotob Removal Tool to cover all current …

Symantec's site is also reporting another virus (technically a worm) targetting the MS05-039 vulnerability. This one is called w32.esbot.a and is also rated at level 3 on their 5 level threat assessm…

According to several reports there are several big media outlets seeing what is reported as the zotob worm which exploits a Microsoft Windows vulnerability (MS05-039) disclosed last week. There seems…

I've been using a site the last two days that I thought others might find useful. If you don't know about it already, it's bootdisk.com. They have available for download all sorts of Dos, Windows and…

As if you needed another reason to not like SPAM ( no, not the hormel product, we're talking junk mail here.) A couple days ago I mentioned a post at the sans institute talking about an email that wa…

Since the massive id theft ring was uncovered, I've been reading the Sunbeltblog frequently. Today, they have an interesting post about the various explanations for spyware on peoples computers. They…

The Sans institute (incidents.org) has returned to infocon green. Explaining that there are no fundamentally new variations on the exploits that were circulating and the situation is fairly static. (…

Tux magazine has a comparison of su and sudo as ways to administer a linux system. Many people are under the mistaken impression that you just login as root (gui or otherwise) and that's the only way…

Eweek is running a round up of some of the alternatives to Exchange. Bynari's Insight server, Communigate Pro Real-Time Collaboration, Gordano Messaging Suite, and Scalix Server are all mentioned and…

I haven't covered anything this morning mainly because I've been fighting with a Windows XP install. I'll give details on it later. I think I'm finally in the last stages of that and will try to do s…

Firefox 1.5 will have DHTML accessibility code donated from IBM. DHTML is code that makes some of the dynamic web pages like google maps as interactive with desktop-like application responsiveness. T…

SecurityFix is talking about the computer security industry. Further, computer users spend $9 billion a year on computers repairs from spyware and antivirus. This reminds me of a recent story of a ma…

A couple of late afternoon updates at the handlers diary at incidents.org (sans institute). For starters, it looks like there may be a variation of zotob that has a mass mailer included. I didn't spe…

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 ant…

Geico, sometime back, has sued Google (also Overture, but that was settled out of court) over a couple of issues with Adwords. For starters, Geico does not advertise through Google. Their competitors…

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…

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…

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. The…

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 …

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 …

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 Open…

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 impleme…

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 …

From the strange category.... The register is running a story about scientists that have developed a battery running on human urine (when you think about how batteries are made this does make some se…