Hurricane Warnings

This is an excellent article about building for hurricanes. It refers to the mistakes found after Hurricane Andrew.'

Also take a look at "Venting". You do need a place for the air to escape (old school wins this one).

AND, for those who have generators, there is a safety tip to avoid backwash to power workers.

The article appears in The Taunton Press: Hurricane Warnings

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Spyware Warrior: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites

Spyware Warrior: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites

Brand new update! With some great news!

A Small Warning...

The following is shared with the kind permission of Anne Docwras:

Watch out for this one...
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hi folks,

I've just intercepted two mails on two different mailboxes purportedly coming from Microsoft and claiming to be a patch to keep you safe from Trojans. The messages are *very* small, only 4kb so you may be fooled into thinking they're safe - they aren't! They have a small self-extracting executable file called update_3032005.exe attached.

From the file name this looks like something *very* new - and the fact that it sailed straight passed the my mailbox's server a/v scanner without so much as raising an eyebrow, never mind a virus alert, makes me think it'll catch a few folks unawares. :(

The "From" address on both these is @microsoft.com but they aren't. If you see one *don't* download it if you can avoid doing so - as it's a self-extracting executable you may not even have to click to open the attachment to be infected. Please be
careful! (Now may be a good time to download and install Mailwasher if you don't already use it!)

UPDATE: I have sent a copy of the file to my a/v people (NOD32) and they have identified it as the Win32/TrojanDownloader.Small.DC trojan so the a/v definitions should include it soon.

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Cheers,
Anne

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Jef Raskin - I Before E, if Taken with Caffeine

"'I before E
Except after C,
Unless pronounced A
As in 'neighbor' or 'weigh''

Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!"

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