Apparently NVU 0.2 is out according to Fun With Wordage but none of these pages actually say what NVU is. I think its some sort of web editing program but whether it is like frontpage, notepad or dreamweaver I don’t know. I think there is a windows binary available so I’ll download it and try it.
A Microsoft guy writes a good article on why they are encouraging users to Instant Messaging at Work instead of email. I guess they have to use it at MS as they wrote a corporate version to go with exchange (and to reduce the load on their servers) but it still makes good reading. We use it internally too as its great for contacting the home workers when you want to find out the answer to a quick question or even if they are at their computer.
An amusing (I hope its tongue in cheek) post about management roles at Microsoft on one of the Exchange blogs. Sadly I can see how much of it is true (from real life experience!)
Just finished LOGAN’s Mystery Of Time And Space Adventure (c) 2002 Jan Albartus (LOGAN) which is a pretty tough flash game – had to cheat twice to do it though 🙁
A neat use of flash to create a puzzle game – can you escape from the CRIMSON ROOM?
My Outlook tip was published as Outlook Daily Tips: Tip 111: More SMTP Servers on Monday. I didn’t get to see it until today as I was out on customer sites.
I was suprised to see on the Guardian’s blog that AT&T users can now send sms texts to European mobile users. I thought that as sms’s were just texts to numbers, that they were therefore global and they could already send us texts. I’ll have to see if my Brother In Law can send us texts…
Apparently, according to Symantec, the virus we discovered on the network yesterday is W32.Randex.gen which is a name given to a family of virus’s – which has been around since December 2003, so why on earth did Symantec not pick it up? VERY scary.Update The AV Update that we downloaded at about 10pm last night detected this file and deleted it but I’m still unsure as to why its been available since December. I was going to try doing a heuristic scan on it to see if the av would pick it up but can’t as the new defs have got to the file. I think if I get asked to renew Symantec AV next year I may well be testing different software as this is the third virus get past the detection routines in as many weeks – and we are paying a lot of money for this so called protection.
Just a heads up that there’s likely to be a new virus as msclock.exe in the windows\system32 directory that gets added to hklm\software\microsoft\windows\run and runservice It seems to replicate using common shared folders with weak passwords. msclock.exe looks like internet explorer if you look at the icons and has a description of internet explorer. Not much else is known at the moment. Nav with avdefs of today do not pick it up, neither does panda a/v software.
With msclock.exe running you will not be able to launch regedit or taskmgr. rename these files and then run them…..more details to follow….argh i hate consulting sometimes.
I’ve just been looking at the Yahoo news about the Columbus shooter capture including the slideshow of photos. What is a bit disturbing is that after 4 pictures there is an advert for a 007 James Bond game on the Yahoo games domain in which a car comes into view on the screen and a sniper scope focus’s in on it. This seems to me to be entirely inappropriate considering this is what the guy was doing and he managed to kill someone.
You can complain about this by going to Yahoo advert feedback and clicking on the ad feedback link.