Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Turns out Verizons DNS servers suck whether it is Fios or DSL. We have been having a flaky problem with one of the apps at a clients office, it turns out the application phones home. The problem is it wasn't able to complete the call, but most other net requests ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Something that has been in the tech news recently is a rise in SSH attacks:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518
One reason for the increase in these attacks could be related to the recent Debian security issues:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212
I remember several years ago I had a similar problem - I was seeing a lot of connections to port 22 ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Not much to report. I'm designing a website for a local contractor.
The worst thing that has happened lately is having to scratch my head over why Microsoft never embraced PGP and added support to it for Outlook Express. I absolutely adore Thunderbird and Enigmail.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The verdict is in. Unless you have a brand new fresh clean install of Windows XP, proceed with caution. Even then you might want to stick to SP2. If for some twisted, sadistic reason you need to install SP3, I beg you to read the following web page first:
Installing Windows ...
Posted in Antivirus, Software, Tips, Windows | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
If you plan to leave the country and need to take a computer with you, buy a brand new one, and keep the files you need to work with, on a jump drive/key drive/thumb drive. Thumb Drives can be kept away from the computer and may not be searched if they are ...
Posted in Hardware, Security, Software, Tips, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Not much going on this week. I spent part of Friday afternoon helping an office worker in Norwood migrate their old PC running Windows 2000 to a new dell 530 running XP. One of the things they were truly happy about was that XP had spider solitaire. Switching the mail ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I always use more than one virus scanner. I know it takes more time, but if you look at the results below it will be come clear. Originally I tried just to clean the laptop with spybot to get an idea of just how infected it was. When I came ...
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