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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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 ...
Posted in Antivirus, Security, Software, linux | No Comments »