Well Done Microsoft?
I’ve been a bit busy of late, still am but I thought I’d take a bit of time out to get Windows Update sorted today. I knew SP2 was on-site waiting to be downed and installed but I just hadn’t got around to it. I’d also heard one or two bad things about it so I was in no particular rush to put myself through it.
Anyway it so happens that I visit The Watchmaker Project on a regular basis, as you may have spotted in earlier posts, and a few days ago I was reading Matthew’s account of how his SP2 update had all gone [...]
Google and MyDoom
It seems that yesterday the latest variant of the MyDoom worm hit Google hard, particularly in the UK. I quote:-
“It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm. Google, at this time (12:28 EDT), is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations. The MyDoom variant searches the user’s address book for email domains (i.e. @yahoo.com) and searches various engines (such as Google) for email addresses in that domain.”
If you want to know all the gorey details check out the Internet Storm Centre. I should warn you that this is a very technical article.
More IE Woes
Well close on the heals of my IE Wiki post comes news regarding the latest IE security warning. This time it would seem to be a very serious risk though not too widespread and, as you will see in the news item, IE users are being advised to use something else until the hole is plugged. As Microsoft take 100 days on average to provide fixes this should give everyone about 3 months to get used to a GOOD browser. Not before time I would say. Let’s hope that people don’t just run back to IE when the crisis is over.
