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With Apologies to WildBlueMekaLizardWith Apologies to WildBlueMekaLizardWith Apologies to WildBlueMekaLizard 06/11/2004 09:39 AM Seomtimes I wish that I had a cool handle. Then I start thinking about the many, many contacts I have and how busy I am and just put the thought aside.Now let’s get to the meat of the matter- the infected e-mail incident.First off, a note from WBML (sorry, but typing that handle is too much like work!) would have been nice. It would have alerted me that my system might have become infected. As you’ll see, that can be a vitally important item of information.In Reply to WBML’s post-Sorry. WBML, I wish I could claim responsibility, but this isn’t the first such occasion. I’ve received ‘e-mail’ from ‘Chris@lockergnome.com’ that was infected mail. The more things like that happen, the more likely it is that we will be able to narrow it down to the actual infected party. Maybe. Since I’m in the end phases of a major anti-virus software test/review, you may be sure that this system ISN’T the one sending out bogus e-mail. I’m keeping a VERY close eye on incoming and outgoing e-mails. Especially since an incident three weeks ago.Why? Because three weeks ago, this system was hit and taken down by the then-unknown Bobax.A Internet worm. I can prove quite easily that my system was one of the very first attacked, since it happened on or before 5/12/04 and the ‘official’ first known spotting of the worm was on 5/16. All this despite having a first-class anti-virus and firewall in place and operating correctly. It took me three days to nail down what was going on and why, because the worm’s activity didn’t set off any alarms. This is most important- the thing had code for its own SMTP server, so it didn’t set off alarms from the anti-virus software monitoring my e-mail client. In the meantime, it was happily sending out hundreds of spams in the background. It didn’t affect my system performance, just my ability to send e-mail, which is what alerted me in the beginning. It then took me less than an hour to wipe the thing off my system. I suppose that some might criticize me for failing to track down the actual files involved and save copies for the anti-virus gurus to drool over, but I wanted the thing gone NOW! So now I keep an even closer eye on system processes, performance levels, processes running, and I treat the anti-virus software as nice to have around, but it’s not the final answer. At least not this year.Consider this a nice reminder to pay attention to ALL your system functions and not to rely on safety measures that may be bypassed by a worm author! This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)With Apologies to WildBlueMekaLizardGrok Headline matches for With Apologies to WildBlueMekaLizardNo apologies hereNo apologies here 04/14/2004 10:23 AM all apologiesall apologies 06/05/2005 10:53 PM I can only sit up for about ten minutes at a time before I get dizzy, so I'm going to... Apologies for down-time...Apologies for down-time... 10/29/2003 12:10 AM I'd just like to apologise for the relative lack of posting over the last few days on both plasticbag.org and Everything in Moderation. Looking around me I see a near infinity of "things that need to get done", very few of which are actually getting done. I'm feeling a little swamped and something's got to give. At the moment that's the weblog(s). It's a shame, though, cos there's so much going on in my head and otherwise that I'd love to be able to write up in greater detail... Patience! No Apologies (washingtonpost.com)No Apologies (washingtonpost.com) 04/27/2004 08:09 PM Howard Kurtz has this to say about the situation over at USA Today .. Never Having to Say You're Sorry washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42228-2004Apr25.html Clarifications and ApologiesClarifications and Apologies 06/27/2004 05:39 PM 1. I misquoted danah baoyd in my post pointing to her pointing to Friendster's marketing campaign. She DID NOT receive those emails. She just got them "from users who work for Yahoo" that she knows. But they did really exist. 2. The most important correction is totally my fault In the confusion and din of SuperNova - danah told me that ORKUT was outputting CVS of their profiles (and social nets) NOT FRIENDSTER! Man oh man - talk about wishful thinking. In the back of my brain, I'm processing "OK Ellen Spertus is getting something done, Jason and Ev are grokking it, and maybe Megan helped....." and what comes out is "Scott Sassa is trying (along with the desperate emails) to do the right thing." So I totally got it wrong. Friendster is not opening up, it's Orkut. Right on for that! I got almost 800 names in my friends list.... OH well - who knows, maybe the power of the blogosphere (and my yelling at Ajeet from Kleiner the other night) will convince Friendster to open up. And let's all hope that juju vibe rubs off on Tom at MySpace - as well. 3. Finally there's teh issue of me accusing Real and their Rhapsody music service of not being able to mix and match music from various different downloading sources. I often use this situation as an example of how little the music industry is in touch with their end-users. The metaphor I use is "imagien if all teh records you bought from Tower Records would only play on CD players from Tower Records?" That's teh situation we're in right now. So Rob Reid (founder of Listen.com - whcih created Rhapsodya nd sold it to Real) comes back to me and says "well as a matter of fact, you're wrong! We DO support that feature!" Within minutes someone on the backchannel confirms that - but we could find only one reference to this feature - anywhere. It's nowhere to be seen on the web site, in pronotional materials or - anywhere. So how was I supposed to know? My response to Rob was "well why don't you let us know about that!" I consider this to be a big deal. If it's true - which I have yet to confirm yet - it's a pretty big story. It'll mean that Real is really putting their money where their mouth is. They open sourced their Helix media server technology and this will make them the FIRST (but hopefully not the last) music downloading service to acknowledge that maybe end-users want to buy music from more than one source. So my apologies to Rob Reid - with the caveat that I haven't seen it work yet myself. But I guarentee you - I WILL be checking that out - real soon now. Apologies in advanceApologies in advance 06/17/2005 03:22 PM If you come up to me at WWDC and I don't talk to you, don't take it personally. One day of talking and shouting over music and crowds, and I've already lost my voice.... Site News: Apologies All AroundSite News: Apologies All Around 09/01/2004 08:22 AM I apologize for the neglect that I've had for this site these past two days. I've been a bit preoccupied with moving my entire life from one place to another (from an apartment to a house) - mostly by myself. Apologies for spamming friends with
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