Archive for April, 2007

This worries me…

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Right we've all heard about terrorists using cell phones to detonate bombs, now the classic response to this by the authorities is to block the cellular networks to stop these working.. Now in principle this seems like a good plan, but I have a feeling this will backfire in a ...

New Hosting ISP

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Last week I ended the two year hosting relationship with EV1 Servers aka. The Planet Internet. The main Virus.Org server was migrated off their network to the German ISP Hetzner Online who host the server for webmail, DNS and secondary mail. The new machine is better spec'd AMD 64-bit system with ...

Sailors Selling up

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Someone correct me if I'm getting this wrong.. But on joining the forces you sign up to the Official Secrets Act, which prohibits you sharing things like operational details with the media and the like unless the information has been declassified. Surely the Sailors taken by Iran during a military operation ...

FYI, Patching Time Tomorrow

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Just a quick note, Microsoft are releasing a critical out of band patch tomorrow. Be sure to run Microsoft Update tomorrow and get the fix for the Animated Cursor vulnerability. This is an urgent patch to address a vulnerability that is currently being exploited extensively by worm and compromised web sites. ...