Couple of newly discovered vulnerabilities for Windows users. Excel and Powerpoint documents are not safe any more. Specially crafted dword (dotless) URLs (dword URL for VSU) can operate in the local intranet security zone instead of the general internet zone in Internet Explorer. Most people have the local intranet zone set to medium-low level and…
The Spectator web site is updated… here is the article about viruses where I was interviewed. Horrible picture, I know. UPDATE 2011-MAR-27: link to article removed as VSU Spectator archives only go back to 2006 not 2001. ouch… my hard drive crapped out. Bad cluster on the REGISTRY! Means Windows can’t boot. And I was gonna do…
Here is an article on computer viruses for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Lindsey Giddens Staff Writer Viruses are running rampant and are extremely contagious. But these viruses don’t attack your immune system–they attack your hard drive. The term virus is used to describe viruses, worms and trojans.…
VSU email and web are down. I’ve been out of the office so I can only surmise that this is related to the Denial of Service attack on Wednesday evening. Very strange that there was a test attack around 3pm and then consistent bombardment starting at almost exactly 5:30 pm. Like the person knew that…
Hmmmmmmm… got some new DVDs to watch. Stuff I already had on VHS already: 5th Element, Tombstone, and Wrath of Khan. This brings my DVD collection to 61 titles. Have never thought of myself as a PC repair person. I have done some stuff on my own home and office computers. Assisted Andrew Otapski with some stuff. He really…
Outlook is still foobarred…Â Eudora here I come! – – – – – Outlook MAY(?!?!) be repaired. Now I have to catch up.
Virus writers are evil. The latest, Nimda, is a really aggressive one. Look at some of the more successful viruses right now. SirCam, Magistr, Loveletter, and Hybris are all on Trend’s top 10 list. All, including Nimda spread by email. Also, like sAdmind (in the top 10) and CodeRed II, it hits Microsoft IIS servers. Like Bymer it hits unprotected network shares.…
Sheeesh… viruses never go away. What a pain. Had to diagnose a server’s virus problem. It was attacking other servers. Found a computer lab had several viruses. Dunno why the anti-virus software caught some, but not others. All a major pain.
Plane crashed into the Pentagon. Another 2 crashed the World Trade Center (as a diversion)? Imagine all the terrorist groups in the world better hide into their sewers for fear of U.S. retaliation. Still amazed by the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It’s incomprehensible that someone would dare to do this. I’ve…