From the “things you shouldn’t really have to tell people, but, obviously, you do” department (From both sides of the job searching fence): If you’re going to put a help wanted ad in the newspaper that asks people to go to your website to apply for this position, make sure the website has been updated,…
So towards the end of last week, I wrote out and fully explained, in great detail, how MyDoom worked and what it meant when you got “bounce” messages claiming that you sent out a virus. (Or, in fact, what it didn’t mean, since they have no point.) This is at least the third time I…
Rogers Cadenhead seems to think so. I don’t seem to have anyone using the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro to grab my feed, and I don’t have Trillian Pro myself, since the free version more than meets my meager IM needs, so I’ve never seen this before. If you’re using Trillian Pro to read RSS,…
Looks like Robert’s brother, Alex, is blogging about his life as an IT Manager for a small law firm. Should be interesting stuff! As a small business IT guy myself, I can empathize with the headaches that switching from WordPerfect to Office 2003 are going to bring. Not so much in the technology, but in…
Chris was kind enough to leave me the link to info on the new MyDoom.B variant in the comments. Looks like this sucker will launch an attack at Microsoft instead of SCO, and will mess with your host file to try and keep you from getting AV updates. Nasty little bugger. Thanks Chris, it’s always…
Since I was looking for it to help out Angela, who apparently has an infected co-worker, might as well link it here too. Symantec has put out a removal tool for the latest nastiness.