Saturday, November 09, 2002

Invasion I feel violated. Something, some vile program, has invaded my laptop. I'm getting popup ads for a wide variety of products/services all the time now. They pop most often during a context switch - moving from one web page to another. I think it happened when I tried to read a message that was from an acquaintance of mine. I was using Outlook web access, clicked the message link, and got....nothing. Not unusual; sometimes it takes a while on the server side. Then I noticed that my main Outlook client was starting up. I shut down fast, but not fast enough. I think I got scammed (spammed?) by a fairly insidious program that: Stripped my address (and probably many others) from my acquaintance's address book Sent an email to me masquerading as my friend Went to work on my address book once I activated the message Left me the gift of "something" that drives/enables the popups. I'm going to have to clean the machine. I wonder why my virus protection software didn't stop this? 7:34:56 AM

The Radio commenting system is broken again this morning. I need to learn how it works. <time passes...> OK, that was simple. From the manual: "By default, Radio uses a Manila site hosted at UserLand to manage comments. Any Manila site can host comments for Radio weblogs, and it's possible that other comment services may also plug into Radio's simple comment interface." So the Manila site that's managing my comments has some problems today. 7:20:00 AM

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