2007

My best wishes for 2007 – and may that year be as safe and secure as 2006 has been – or even better.

“Members” on the forums

Apart from the ususal spam, nothing really weird happenend lately.
But it’s good to check the forum’s memberlist now and than. I already removed a number of (non-Dutch) guests on my OpenVMS forums that can’t possibly have an real interest. Given the fact that they refer to non-existing e-mail accounts, or websites full of junk (if not worse), these have been removed.
On one of the Windows machines, howver, I have a problem with a patch that keeps re-appearing after install. According Microsoft support, it may have to do with seettings within Internet Explorer, the cach of it, cookies, firewall settings…I have to follow 7 steps to see if the problem gets away – inclusing messing with security. IF such is really the case, WindowsXP is worse than I thought…
However, I could get around the annoying pop-up that tells me that “New updates are available” by swithcing auto-update off all toegther. Not exactly what I want, but that is workable for the moment. But I’ll need to sit and work on that some day. (an evening is too short). I wonder if they think I have all day to repair the junk they make of it ;(