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[Chad]

hmmm, maybe MSN is just fucking up all over, mines working though. They have a beta version I'm using that has some neat tricks. Anytime anyone opens an IM window, puts your name in the "send to" section and starts typing, the window opens up on your screen before they ever send it. It doesn't matter if they are on your buddylist either. When the window opens it has the persons SN and it says "you feel a disturbance in the force..." while they type.

I am easily amused but that is pretty cool.

Edited by Chad, 29 December 2006 - 07:23 AM.

[jeckles]

Adam, on Dec 29 2006, 01:13 AM, said:

To feed off that answer, I know there is/was a site called anonymizer.com that you could go to and basically conceal all of your internet travels from that point on. Every job i've ever worked at blocked that site. Is there something similar out there I can use? My fear is that one day, they will firewall MaximumAwesome. On those days when my job reminds me of what a horrible loser I am, I tend to go back and read my spellbinding contributions to this top notch website and all is well in my craw again (for awhile). So my question is, how can I hide my internet tracks at work? Keep in mind, I'm in South Dakota. What may seem elementary to you is probably rocket science to people who hope to be you in these parts. Word.

There are a ton of proxy redirect sites out there. We have hundreds of them blocked at my job. Google 'public proxy server' and you'll find plenty. Of course, your WAN/Firewall guy at work is doing the same thing.

If the guys at your job have any brains at all, you can't hide your tracks. Every site you go to passes through the firewall, with a return ticket back to your computer. Even if you use an 'anonymous' proxy, they can still see that you are the one using it. (By the way using proxies and shit like that may well be a violation of whatever electronic/communication user agreement you signed at work.) The best thing to do is clear your history, cookies and cache on your PC and hope that they aren't logging firewall traffic (or they don't have the tools or manpower to mange those logs.)

Edited by jeckles, 29 December 2006 - 02:37 PM.

[Meathe]

jeckles, on Dec 29 2006, 09:35 AM, said:

If the guys at your job have any brains at all, you can't hide your tracks.

Unless you happen to be the guys at your job who monitor this stuff, in which case, logs are eminently configurable... 

[Dave]

Meathe, on Dec 29 2006, 12:55 PM, said:

Unless you happen to be the guys at your job who monitor this stuff, in which case, logs are eminently configurable...

There are two guys at an office job that a regular idiot like me should never mess with: the mailroom guy and the IT guy.


Question:
I'm getting weird "mail delivery system" and "mailer daemon" spam. I can't tell if it's a purely fabricated email with the subject title, "mail delivery error" OR if it's somehow actually sending emails from obscure and unused email addresses asdf@mydomain.com that are then bouncing back to me because the receiver marks them as spam. I did a google search to find an answer, but the only promising hit seems to be a forum that I'll have to register to sometime this weekend to find out the answer. Anyone know what's going on?

[jeckles]

Without more details I can't be sure, but there are a few likely scenarios.

If the emails are purported to be from your domain or your account, it is likely that some spammer is 'spoofing' your addresses. There is nothing to be done here really, but you get the bounce backs since the spammer is using your domain as the reply-to.

If they are coming from a different domain but your mail-server is bouncing them, they could be using your SMTP Server to relay their spam. You need to make sure that your server doesn't do blind relays to protect from this.

And the last possibility that occurs to me is that the mails aren't really being bounced, but (as you guessed) are completely fabricated just to trick you into opening them to see what is up.

Meathe, on Dec 29 2006, 12:55 PM, said:

Unless you happen to be the guys at your job who monitor this stuff, in which case, logs are eminently configurable...

Did I mention that I go backpacking with our Firewall guy?

[FRA]

Alright, so... the male companion and I are planning on networking our computers once I buy a new one, that is... HOWEVER I want a Mac and he's total PC, he like foams at the mouth at the mere mention of a Mac. Literally, we've had knockdown dragout fights over the whole Mac/PC thing.


Now that I've beaten him into submission he comes back with a petulant glare and a half muttered "We won't be able to network them, now."

Is this true?
....because if it isn't I'm beating him again.

Edited by FRA, 30 December 2006 - 03:52 PM.

[monogodo]

Yes, you can network Macs and PCs. At every print shop I've ever worked at we've had Macs and PCs on the network. I've even been able to navigate through the network to share files between them. Granted, it's not as easy as a Mac-only or PC-only network, but it's not anything that requires the Geek Squad to come out to set it up. The main thing is to make sure the permissions are set properly.

[jeckles]

Networking Macs and PC's is no problem... except for the fact that you have to touch a Mac to do that. If all you want to do is share a broadband connection it is dead simple, if your looking to share files that's a little trickier (but really no trickier than sharing files between two PC's.)

So feel free to resume the beatings.

[FRA]

AWESOME!
Thanks guys, as soon as Paul regains use of his fingers I'm sure he'll type his own little thank you.*


*all comments about husband beating are all made up for amusement purposes.... as far as you know.

[Chad]

What is the best anti virus shit out there? For the longest time I used Avast, spybot, and ad-aware (and spyware blaster) but when I bought my new computer I got a year of Norton free so now I just use that. When the year runs out, is it really worth it to buy in again or should I go back to freeware stuff?

[jeckles]

It depends what you mean by best.

The biggest differences between the Norton (and Trend Micro and McAfee) and the free ones are how quickly new definitions and released and how streamlined their AV engines are.

In other words, the free ones will protect you from viruses (although they will be slower on an outbreak) but they will tend to use more system resources.

To me, it would be a question of out of pocket cost versus computer performance.

[Chad]

Well the computer I bought has a 3500+ AMD Athlon Processor, a gig of RAM, 200 gig HD, this thing is pretty quick no matter what I have going. I guess to clear up my question, will I get the same level of protection from the free stuff that I will from Norton?

[jeckles]

Chad, on Jan 2 2007, 09:48 AM, said:

Well the computer I bought has a 3500+ AMD Athlon Processor, a gig of RAM, 200 gig HD, this thing is pretty quick no matter what I have going. I guess to clear up my question, will I get the same level of protection from the free stuff that I will from Norton?

The answer is not quite, but close.

It typically takes the free ones a little longer to come up with definitions for new viruses.

[Chad]

Coolness. Thanks

[Dave]

What about Norton vs. McAfee?

In my experience, I've found Norton to be a sluggish resource hog on good computers.

[jeckles]

I detest McAfee. All versions of it seem to suck. It is the biggest resource hog of the group, I think.

The Home Norton isn't great but still better than McAfee (in my experience at least.) The Corporate Version of Norton (Now called Symantec AV) is very efficient, but pricey... if you actually pay for these kinds of things.

Trend Micro's corporate product is probably the best I've used, although I have no experience with the home version of that one.

[Chad]

When i was in the military the computer people made available to all military personel a free copy of the Corporate Norton. I never got around to getting one. now I can't

[Chad]

I have searched the net and tried all the top ones that come up in a google search, but I need a browser redirect script that works. I want to redirect anyone using IE. Any help would be appreciated.

[monogodo]

Chad, on Jan 8 2007, 03:31 PM, said:

I have searched the net and tried all the top ones that come up in a google search, but I need a browser redirect script that works. I want to redirect anyone using IE. Any help would be appreciated.

It would help if we knew what terms you used to search in google, so that we know what didn't work.

[monogodo]

Found one.

If all you want to do is redirect IE users elsewhere, insert this immediately after the Body tag:

[indent]

<script language="JavaScript" 
type="text/JavaScript">
 if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
{
 window.location = "http://www.misfitopia.com"
}
 window.location == "URL where non-IE users go"
</script>

[/indent]

Obviously you'll want to change the URLs of where you want to send IE users and where you want non-IE users to go.

I've tested it on monoradio, and it works.

Edited by monogodo, 08 January 2007 - 10:12 PM.