I downloaded Microsoft’s Antigen for Exchange last night and installed it on a server to remove some old virus’s that were stuck in the mail store (there is no scheduled scan of the mailstore as realtime desktop and smtp scanning is now used for virus protection). Although the product did the job of deleting the mail, the whole admin interface is awful to use and the support on the Microsoft website is non existant – there are NO documents in the technet database on Antigen version 9. With the various quirks in the admin interface and no support, this software really should be released as a beta. I’d only say beta due to the fact that it did remove the virus’s otherwise I’d recommend alpha status.
The extended entry contains my 22 points that I would provide as bug reports if it was in beta status.
I upgraded wordpress on my uniform server to 2.0.3 and got stuck in an endless loop stating that I needed to upgrade. Solved by running the upgrade url in ie instead of firefox.
There’s a new zero day exploit for firefox and internet explorer which involves javascript. So if you are running firefox, then installing NoScript will give you added protection. If you are running IE – then ooooooops 🙂
Having said that, it doesn’t look that malicious – you would have to be tricked into entering data into one page, which can then be sent to the malicious site at the same time, so you are probably only at risk if you do random surfing or surf in dodgy web site areas in the first place – and if you are doing that then I really hope you are not running internet explorer (or as an admin!)
After attending a Vista Management webcast yesterday I was all fired up to install Vista on one of my older pc’s – unfortunately it was only open to msdn subscribers (which my company is) but I didn’t have the information to download it. However, thanks to the JCXP I’ve got my own copy as it was released today. Currently downloading the ISO now. Not sure how long it will take and I hope that the huge thunderstorm we are having right now doesn’t take the powerout at 99%
Hmmm – if you are like me and forget your admin password, then you can follow the instructions at Tamba to reset the password. Note that this does rely on you remembering your phpadmin password – which shouldn’t be the same as the wordpress one!
I setup my wrt54g with openvpn support and enabled the OpenVPN server as per the wiki documentation and it works great.
Now I just need to ensure that my web browsing is being tunneled through this interface when connected remotely and I’ll be able to surf remotely and securely.
A script to remove those annoying intellitext ad’s – those double underlined in green words that are starting to appear all over the place such as at The Gadgeteer and the once was useful but not anymore expertsexchange. The links will appear briefly but then get removed by the greasemonkey script.
Looks like there is now some more incentive to start using the powershell that I installed on the notebook as there are two ide’s to use – see Scott Hanselman’s blog post for more details.
I discovered that there is a replacement to cacls called xcacls.vbs which can be downloaded from kb article 825751 which has instructions on how to use it. Not sure why there is a new version, but the output from the vbs script does look a lot nicer than cacls. Hopefully it doesn’t blow up permissions like cacls did for me once.
I was initially under the impression that only 10.1 was vulnerable to the new exploit that went out, but apparently it’s almost every 10. version of the software. The web page at symantec’s sym06-010 page is good for providing links on what needs to be upgraded to what version. This is something that symantec is VERY poor at doing – I’ve never received a new patch level notification or anything, apart from the marketing push to upgrade to the latest version – but even then the latest versions that I’ve been sent haven’t been the latest version and have needed patching!