Month: April 2004

Bloodhounds in my email!

Norton’s went nuts overnight deciding that I had several Bloodhound Exploit 6 occurances in my incoming mail and has quarantined them. Annoyingly its in the log file (which is a .txt file) so I can’t see who sent it to me as its blocked access to the logs. (which incidentally is why you should always exclude the exchange server directory from antivirus scanning!).
Update I got into the logs….
Update 2This one has been written up on codefish

Daff’s and lambs

A bit late, but I finally managed to get my “spring” photo’s online – the daffodils are very photogenic at Astbury, the cows were feeding and lambs were cute. I’ve also uploaded a few more pictures of edale where Ruth, Tim and I went for an impromptu walk after meeting up for my birthday. It was a fairly deep valley but with easily climbed sides to take the pictures of Ruth and the stones are meant to say A and K in a heart (but you need superdooper eyesight to make that one out.

MetroNOmy PC

Well I got an email from MetroNOmy PC this evening which quite frankly I’m not suprised to get although it does make me wonder how on earth they expected to do this and make a profit. Their email says the following:-
We regret to inform you that we are unable to fulfill your application at this time. As you may know, Metronomy’s launch generated considerable media interest, and we received an excellent response from households wishing to take part in the scheme. However, we have also received information to suggest that a minority of applicants do not intend to operate within our standard terms and conditions, resulting in the potential theft of the computer.Whilst we have invested considerable resources into developing highly secure business processes and technology, the high cost of each PC means that we must control our exposure at this stage.As such, we have reluctantly decided to release only a limited number of PC’s in the first instance, in order to fully test our security procedures and technical infrastructure before a wider roll-out in the Autumn. Unfortunately, we will be unable to progress your application until then.Should you wish us to remove your details from the waiting list, please click here: [email protected] and return the message, remembering to include your customer number. Otherwise, you will be contacted later in the year with further information.We recognise that our concerns apply to only a minority of applications, and regret any inconvenience that this may cause to bona-fide customers, but feel this is the best course of action to protect the long-term interests of the business and ensure that the offer can be available to all who want it in future.

So did *anyone* get a pc?

Very strange spam

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting very strange spam with contents such as $B:#F|$O$J8$K$J$C$F$O$$$?$@ which is really weird. I just tried adding the first 20 or so characters of the email into the web front end to MT and it totally mucked up my keyboard, so I guess its some form of an ANSI keyboard remap or something? All I can think of its some sort of japanese spam (as a lot of the emails are .jp address’s)
Anyone else seen this?

Free music download – at last.

Managed to finally get a winning token with the Cokes, myCokemusic.com service which meant that I was able to download a song (which Kristen decided she wanted.) Why the process had to open 4 seperate windows I don’t know. What I didn’t know was that you can use the service to actually stream in real time the songs aka your personal radio service, but you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t!) be able to record it to listen to again. These one off listens cost 1 credit, with a download or a free win being 99 credits.

Understanding pop3 logins

A very Useful link on understandin pop3 or imap login strings has been posted which will help. I can work my way around pop3 and smtp but knew nothing about imap. I’ve spent the best part of two days struggling to get our Exchange server back on the internet and working again and I’ll document more about this on Monday. Basically we ended up with not being able to email other Azur or K3 sites but could email everyone else….then I went in and cleaned up Active Directory and couldn’t email anything out unless I kept stopping and starting the smtp server. In the end I deleted and recreated our smtp routing connector and everything worked – just when we were starting to discuss reinstalling exchange 2000 – NOT a nice thing to contemplate at lunchtime on Friday afternoon.