08-Feb-2015

Maintenance log
Last maintenance log revealed nothing specical, except for an unusual amount of relay attempts:

PMAS statistics for January
Total messages    :   5004 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :   3766 =  75.2 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1238 =  24.7 o/o (Files: 31)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :    633 =  51.1 o/o (processed),  12.6 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    232 =  18.7 o/o (processed),   4.6 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    148 =  11.9 o/o (processed),   2.9 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    180 =  14.5 o/o (processed),   3.5 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     45 =   3.6 o/o (processed),    .8 o/o (all)

most of them on Jan 5th, from address 112.90.37.237 – sent by xiaonanzi11162@163.com. There is a lot of spam comining in from that domain so I blocked it in PMAS already, but it seems to be worthwhile to block if from accessing anything. IOt means two more entries in the router’s object table.
Today I also finished archiving all 2014 logs.
A new testbed
Microsoft has made the successor of Windows 6.1 available for testing. Since the old Windows7 machibe from the living room is actually obsolete (Rita now uses a tablet for browsing the web and handling her email – in fact the only real activity on the net – I could install the Windows-10 preview on that machine – after a thourough cleanup. The system started remarkably slowly, not a real surprise when the system disk is 8% fragmented…
One big reason why I decided to give it a try: Update hyung while one program: CheckSUR.exe, ran for hours, generating an output of well over 100KB. I stopped installation, had to reboot a few times (once into safe mode) to have the installation rolled back, next attempt I disabled this update and it did finish.. Now I could finish the clean-up and defragmetation – and after that, I booted the Windows10-preview (ISO was downloaded and burned onto DVD). I would prefer to install it aside Windows 7 but that wasn’t possible – or I would habe to use another disk. There is one available but I don’t have the power-block to connect it….
No big deal, anyway. It’s used mainly for testing, and if I need particular software, it’s easy to install.