Had a weird problem on a home users pc today where they couldn’t access their outlook web access. It just keeps asking for the username and password on this XP (home) machine. If we access the same url with the same username/password combo on it on any other machine then we get in ok. We can also get into other outlook web mailboxes on this affected pc. Unfortunately the mailbox we are trying to get into is the owner of the laptop! Update The problem was solved by changing the password for the user (and yes I was using the correct password as the same username/password combo worked from other machines)
Month: September 2003
We had several detections of the Worm.Automat.AHB. Interestingly this has now been renamed W32.Swen.A@mm. I checked the server that gets updates every night and it was using definitions dated 18th September (which catches this worm) and despite it updating every night, it hadn’t downloaded the definitions dated 19th September which according to Symantec’s Virus watch page detects 5 more new virus’s
Like Kelly our animals gave us some hassles this weekend too. Although we don’t have a dog to run away, we do have three cats, and Basil (probably) decided that he didn’t want to eat the cat food we had left them, but instead he’d rather hunt out the fish food that was shrink-wrapped in plastic, inside a cardboard box, inside a carrier bag. Once he had opened it, he proceeded to pour it on the floor, eat some of it, and traipse the rest of it all over the kitchen. The smell of it was the worst though – the kitchen stunk!
Received a very good animated picture of a man walking using ascii art(popup) (this one is the correct image too)
Its interesting that I still get loads of flames about my comment on MessengerPlus containing Spyware. I’ve just downloaded the software for some other reasons and its interesting that the download page says “No spyware (optional Adware)” which seems a bit of a fiddle around the whole spyware/adware bundle argument. The “No” bit seems a bit misleading though.
Scott Hanselman has a useful list of utilities that he’s collected over the years. Some of them I have used before, some of them I have better (imho) utilities, or I’ve written my own to do a similar thing. I guess I should really write my own list. It’s certainly been something I’ve been meaning to do for yonks, with the first incarnation being “tools I use(d) to maintain and build this website.
Sometimes I wish I had the guts to answer the phone like they do in this BOFH piece
Just goes to show you can’t believe everything on the internet as this guy claims to have modded the original research article I posted about to include some tracking information in the first three words so he could see how quickly it spread – very quickly is the answer! I think the success of the spread was mainly due to how spooky and correct it was, and unlike most research done nowadays wasn’t obvious to everyone on the high street.
Remember my post about the dragonfly hiding? well i’ve found another closeup photography page with some close ups of a praying mantis with more photos from this series at Joe’s
Its amazing how many blogs you get a chance to read and comment on when you can’t sleep! Rob has written some software that can be uploaded to a Linksys WRT54G wireless access point that forces people to go to a html page of your choosing when they first use your access point. This is similar to the way commercial wifi providers work. You would then normally sign up for a limited period of access, but in this case you would probably acknowledge the accesspoint owners “welcome” and info page before continuing to surf. A neat hack – shame it won’t work on my netgear box although I guess it won’t be long before something like this will get hacked to work on other machines.
http://nocat.net/download/NoCatSplash/