Today is my son’s first birthday. A very special day indeed. I dedicate this day to you as it is your day.
It seems to me, when you do Internet searches you need an option to specify the maximum number of words which separate your search items.
I don’t know how many times I search for an item (e.g. my name) and receive links to blogs or other long pages of information where the two words I searched for are separated by 1000 words, and have no corralation between them. You can’t use quotes, that is for exact matches. This really leads to many, many false matches and waisted time searching for stuff. Specially stuff which is difficult to find.
Well another two and one-half hours in the bowels of Symantec and nothing. I think I may have to call them myself and try to get to the security group. Tech support is NOT the right channel. Resolution on this issue is two forked: A, find out the reason the definitions find SuperScan 2.06 a back door, and B, learn how to properly exclude areas of a computer from the wrath of Symantec Anti-Virus.
I spent a little time today looking around at this dilemma of mine. It seems that an update was made to Hacktool.SuperScan on January 28, 2007, which was Sunday. The definition which caused this hell installed on Monday the 29th, so that fits. Now I just wonder why and if they will ever do anything about it.
I am looking at this from the wrong perspective. What I need to find out is a way that actually works to setup and area for tools, obviously a spot I choose not a default location, too crackable. I have tried to set a directory as ignore, or don’t scan, what ever it is, and it doesn’t matter, Symantec still deletes the files. I admin systems, I test security, I have special needs from a Anti-Virus engine. The biggest need is, “Stop deleting my tools!” It’s no wonder why so many people end up disabling anti-virus protection; it’s too limited toward smart people. Symantec’s take must be, all computer users are dumb, they need our protection, and the will only get it our way.
Let the search begin for an anti-virus program for smart people.
To my suprise this afternoon, scanner.exe, the executable of Superscan 2.06, is being identified by Symantic Antivirus Corporate Addition version 10.1.x as being infected with the backdoor.Graybird.
Also, Superscan 4.0 is being identified as a hack-tool and being removed.
I have no idea why, all of a sudden, that Symantec Antivirus is finding this stuff. Superscan 2.06, I have used since at lease 2002, almost as long on this same computer. We have been using the Symantec Corporate Antivirus since around 2000. Backdoor.graybird was discovered in April of 2003. None of this makes sense, none of the dates match. Someone in the anti-virus definition has made a big (to me) mistake and having to call Symantec on this really scares me. I actually found Superscan 2.06 on tucows.com mirror and downloaded it. Even a new file is detected with the backdoor. I followed all of the information on the Symantec site of how Backdoor.Graybird infects your machine, and none of them are found on any of the machines I have used Superscan on (4). This is all crap, an now another tool I can’t use if I leave anti-virus scanner on my machine.
So another person in the shop here has been attempting to contact Symantec on this issue. I scoured their website and there seems not to be any electronic help for Anti-virus. This poor person has now been passed around in the bowels of Symantec for over an hour and now has his fifth phone number. All we want to do is report a false-positive so we can get our tools on our machines again.
It’s funny, each phone number and new person we speak to seems to be getting us closer to America–even the music is different.
Will we ever make it back from the bowels of Symantec support? Who knows…
4 new numbers and 2 disconnections, still nothing…
As a life-long Chicago Blackhawks fan, I am no stranger to disappointment. A great start to the Super Bowl game, kick-off return for a score in 14 seconds, woot. Not a whole lot after that. A few sparks, then nothing. The Colts played a good game, they most certainly deserve this win. As it goes, “Better luck next time”.
Stop the madness!
I will not remove the Hello, World default post from WordPress, I just won’t.
Why should I, it is the start of the blog, the first post. I may even keep the About page, just because. Hey, every time I learned a new programming language, the first thing I create is a Hello, world page, script, whatever; so why not have one here? Not exactly sure where it started, but I bet there’s an entry on Wikipedia for it…
Well yes it is at Wikipedia, right here. The article states that Hello, world started with the book from Kernigham and Ritche, one of my favorites, “The C programming Language.”
I wonder if it became popular from that book? I just re-read this book in November, because I was looking to get back to my roots. It was fun, but now I’m over it. There are such better ways to work with strings these days. I really do like how it makes me think. A little pointer arithmetic once in a while is good for the soul. So, anyway, the Hello, world post stays.
Care to debate on it’s capitalization? 🙂
Hey look a new home. I am a few year user of Blogger and was getting tired of some of it’s shortcomings. You know, no titles, categories, difficult back links. Well difficult to me, they are just not straight forward enough and I can’t figure out how to link to old posts.
I came across WordPress again while reading a blog linked by reddit. I liked the layout of the blogs and that it’s FREE. So here I am giving it a go, and I may have a new place to write my crap. Nobody is reading, so I am glad to waist more space on the ever-expanding Internet.
I just noticed, no in-line spell check! What’s with that, I thought I read they had that here. Perhaps I need to turn it on. I see you click the button and it’s then checks spelling. That could use some work, as I am getting spoiled with the in-line checkers at Yahoo!, Google, and even in Fogcreeks, Fogbugz. Ugh, I can’t add words to a dictionary either. Well, it’s annoying, but not a show stopper.
Well like any new home I guess it will take a to get accustom to it. Being that I really suck at spelling and grammar is always a challenge, the immediate spell-check is a little something to help me along. Enough on that already. I already see benefits that I can put up pictures, documents, perhaps even video. 50 Megs of space should be good for me, it’s not like I will have a whole lot of content anyway. Just stupid musings from an IT slug.
Neat, I get pages too. I like that, can segregate stuff and not necessarily have to or more blogs. May be a one-stop-shop for my stuff. I may even pull out Photoshop and put together a banner pic for myself.
Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!
Stuff From an IT Slug 