My GMail 30-day spam count was up 5 (less than 2%) to 303 spam messages in the last 3o days. The second GMail account has stopped receiving phishing emails. The bad news is I’ve picked up a couple new spam sources. The email address for my ISP (DSL provider) account received four spam emails this [...] Read more »
Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Released
Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 which is primarily a security update. One security vulnerability was fixed along with one crash bug that had the potential to be a security vulnerability. In addition, support for Korean was added. A list of 21 changes is available at The Rumbling Edge. The update is available through Thunderbird’s auto [...] Read more »
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2007
Microsoft released six security patches today. Four of them were rated critical, one important and one moderate. There are patches for all supported desktop OS platforms, Internet Explorer, a couple mail apps and for a couple versions of Visio. There aren’t any Office patches. The four critical desktop patches are: MS07-031 for Windows XP SP2, [...] Read more »
Rootkit Revealer
Rootkit Revealer was created by the guys at SysInternals and since Microsoft bought SysInternals it calls Microsoft home. The current version is v1.71 and is available as a free download from Microsoft. I ran the Rootkit Revealer on my Windows XP SP2 PC. It found two registry keys that were suspect but a quick search [...] Read more »
Spam Counts for Week Ending June 10, 2007
My GMail 30-day spam count sits at 298 which is down 14 from last weeks 312 which is a 4% drop. The second GMail account, the one that’s only received phishing emails, didn’t receive anything in the past week. None of my other email addresses received any spam. Comment spam and trackback spam continues to [...] Read more »