According to my weekly scan of hard disk, firedll.dll from my mozillafirebird directory is a Trojan Horse (nice lot of detail there symantec!) and a password revealing program is backdoor.ciadoor. With the distinct lack of information that symantec are giving with these files that have been on my pc for weeks and haven’t changed – I am not impressed.

According to my weekly scan of hard disk, firedll.dll from my mozillafirebird directory is a Trojan Horse (nice lot of detail there symantec!) and a password revealing program is backdoor.ciadoor. With the distinct lack of information that symantec are giving with these files that have been on my pc for weeks and haven’t changed – I am not impressed.

Woohoo! I’m Feedster’s blog of the day! (that deserves a few extra !! for good measure) Thanks to Brendoman for the heads up

Woohoo! I’m Feedster’s blog of the day! (that deserves a few extra !! for good measure) Thanks to Brendoman for the heads up

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.

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists has an article about how blogs can be another tool in the Security Pro’s Toolkit. It has some very interesting links and comments about RSS feeds, which reminds me – I really need to sort my logo’s out.

I downloaded a copy of DeskNow a free email and collaboration server that has mail, file sharing, message boards and calendar functionality. If you register for a commercial licence it also acts as an instant messaging server with jabber compatibility. From what I’ve seen so far it looks pretty good and could make a nice cutdown version of exchange server! One of the good things in the email clients is timelimited emails. By appending the date that you want an email to expire to the username part of the address, email sent after this date will be dropped as spam. ie fred.040302@domain will drop emails after the second of March 2004. Filtering is also available on the server, but again its functionality that you need to register the server for. Still worth checking out if you run a small mail server on an office lan or for home users.

I’m using Zempt to compose these entries offline ready for posting when I’m connected again. It would be *really* nice if Zempt detected I was backonline again and offered me the ability to post all composed entries that are currently saved as draft options (or gave me a menu option to do this) – possibly with a listing of draft entries saved with a checkbox next to them to say “post this” – a bit like when you select a post to edit.

Downloaded and installed a new RSS reader today, Awasu and gave it a quick whirl whilst out of the office. It looks really nice but the stupid thing doesn’t save the feeds to a local hard disk so as soon as I had disconnected from the internet and then went to look at the feed, it kept coming up with pages not found. REALLY annoying. It doesn’t look like there is an option to download the feeds either. It’s also meant to autodetect pages with rss feeds but it didn’t do anything when I went to my site or Mike’s
Newzcrawler offers both of these functions – although I don’t think it supports autodetect in mozilla – I must admit I’ve not used RSS feeds since switching to Mozilla as my main browser, but those two events are completely independant, apart from the fact that Mozilla allows me to open multiple pages at once in one window so makes it alot easier to read multiple sites quickly. I must get back into the habit of using Newzcrawler though (and add an RSS category to my MT installation!)

Thought I’d do my first ever Friday five….on a Saturday. My answers are funny (at least to me) so here goes….

1. How much time do you spend online each day?
The home computer is connected 24/7, I check my email when I get up and check news sites and blogs updated in blogrolling before going to work. I then use the internet for most of the day at work, I eat tea and then I’ll check email, blog check, program or just randomly surf….so probably at least 12 hours a day I’m actively using the internet.

2. What is your browser homepage set to?
Which browser? 🙂 Mostly about:blank That way it loads the quickest. As my browsers are constantly opening and shutting I don’t want to wait for the home page to load each time. Having said that most of the time I use the address bar to actually type the url or search query in to launch the browser so it never goes to the home page in the first place.

3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? Very occasionally I’ll use Miranda but I have accounts on yahoo,aol,icq and msn. In fact I have a 6 digit icq number which is pretty rare!

4. Where was your first webpage located?
On a floppy :-). The first accessible page was (and still is) Wabbit’s Warren . This was in 1995 when they were still geocities and everyone wondered how on earth they were going to be profitable giving away free web space. I had to decide on a theme for the site, as in those days pages were grouped by neighbourhoods ie Hollywood for entertainment. I was big into Petra at the time so that influenced my neighbourhood. Note the painstakingly created grey background, auto refresh to a different page, animated wabbit logo (hand created) and imagemap for the various pages. The scary thing is that people still sign my guestbook!

5. How long have you had your current website?
Which website? Absoblogginlutely.net is the latest and the main site that I update and has been running for about 4 months I think. This is the third location for my blog as I’ve moved hosting providers (and urls)