Chris pointed out that there is a slight problem with 2.6661 and MT-Blacklist in that there is no throttling due to the order of the plugins overwriting the new functionality. Thats a bit scary as last night I was reading up on (and saw) the effects of a in-the-wild hacking tool for MT and it looks like blacklist may not stop this. I’m hesitant to go into details here but email me if you want more information.
The long awaited calendar arrived yesterday (whilst I was out of the office), the day after I sent a snotty email to computerworld asking for a refund, which I am pleased to say they did that afternoon, and I said I would refuse delivery of the goods. However I wasn’t in the office yesterday, and the receptionist had forgotten that I had told her to not accept the shipment – as it was so long ago – so I emailed ComputerWorld saying I now had them eventually and asked what they wanted me to do with them. Ever so nicely they told me to keep them with their compliments, sorry for the delay and please frequent them again. I don’t think I’ll buy from them again but it was nice to get them for free, but then again I don’t know what they would have done with them by the time they arrived back at their depot 2 months from now!
Thanks to the girlie matters tips and tricks I now have more than 5 comments, pings and entries displayed in each section of MT’s menu by making three small edits to lib/MT/App/CMS.pm (which now means yet another file I need to NOT overwrite when upgrading MT!)
Now upgraded MT to 2.661 (which meant I had to re-edit MT.pm – thank heavens for MT’s search function!)
Blocked the ip address 62.213.67.122 from this site this evening after checking my MT logs. Several times today it’s been used to try and spam this site, but the blacklister got them first 🙂 Its a site in Russia so I doubt they’ve got real concerns looking at this site.
I solved my Calendar issues with Outlook 2k3 this morning. Not sure exactly what the solution was, but by logging onto a downlevel client (98 with office 2000) and then logging into my mailbox as me AND changing permissions for one user from reviewer to author (which I needed to do anyway) I then found that everyone else can now view the calendar….and its only taken 15 days to crack it. Now the annoying thing is that I don’t know what caused it or which of the two things fixed it.
and you get a rapidly spreading virus – or so the news would have us believe. We’ve had one instance so far with the subject “Hi”, with an attachment of “kjywtjhgnbw.exe”. The body of the email contains Test =) lfcdlfaorget
–Test, yep. Now if you got an email like this would you click on the .exe file?
Apparently the bagel virus is spreading fast with reports that it’ll probably spread even faster today when Americans get back to work.
There’s a Security vulnerability in outpost which is worrying as I’ve recommended it to several people.It’s an escalation of priveledge problem so shouldn’t really be an issue for home users – it could be in the corporate side of things, or if a virus managed to use it to escalate it’s own priveledges (not sure how though)
Ultr@vnc also has the same problem – although this is likely to be installed on more corporate systems as a way of providing support to end users. No comment on whether it would effect other vnc clones….
MBSA 1.2 released – the application that analyzes your security configs. (thanks Chris)
Blogjet looks like an alternative to zempt or w.bloggar (looking suspiciously like the latter). Will download and try this one out too.
If you have the java plugin installed for phoenix, and then change your User Agent to Internet Explorer, then when you fire up Phoenix, it will say that you can’t use the netscape plugin in Internet Explorer and then give you an ok button…..and hangs. I’ve reported on something similar to this in the past, but at least last time it did that it actually let you carry on using Phoenix.
Microsoft have a Virtual PC 2004 45-Day Free Trial Edition download available.