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Famous for a day…
…well, in the anti virus blogging world anyway. Last Wednesday morning, I noticed my Norton Anti Virus software blocking JavaScript on quite a lot of reputable websites. Deciding these sites were almost certainly not all compromised, I wrote a post about it, suggesting that it was a false-positive. Throughout the morning I noticed (thanks to […]
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“HTTP Acrobat PDF Suspicious File Download” – False Positives?
Note: There is now a potential solution for this – see the bottom of the post. Today when browsing the web, I started to get notifications from Norton Antivirus telling me a malicious worm was blocked. I get these occasionally, so thought nothing of it the first time, but they kept coming up, and I […]
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There’s salesmanship, then there’s blatent lies
Just before heading to bed this Friday, we flicked on to Pricedrop TV to have a laugh about what tat they were flogging. Normally they bend the truth slightly, or exaggerate the quality of the products, but whoever was presenting on this occasion was just coming out with lie after lie. The first product they […]
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Some Good News
I am pleased to announce that Abby and I are expecting our first baby in April! We’re obviously both very happy. Abby is doing well, a little tired, but most of the morning sickness seems to have passed. We were hoping to have the 12-week dating scan before we went public, but there seems to […]
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The Lonely Blogger
I’ve had this blog for a few months now, and I’ve started to think about my reasons for starting it. When I started I didn’t really have a plan for any theme or anything,and I’m not sure I really expected anyone to read it. Most of my posts get almost zero visitors. My most visited […]
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Wrapit goes into administration – time to anounce my new project?
I read a few days ago that the wedding list service Wrapit has gone into administration. This is bad news for couples who have their wedding lists with them, and the guests who’ve purchased gifts. I believe any gifts already in the warehouse should get to the happy couples, and guests who used credit cards […]
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Homepages Friends pays
Just a quick post to announce that My Homepages Friends which I’ve blogged about in the past (previously known as Mysearchfunds) really does pay. I got a payment for £31.53 into my account today. That’s for 3 months of searches. I assume it includes some income from people I’ve referred, because otherwise it doesn’t add […]
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eBay Emails
I bought a couple of items on eBay this morning, and despite having just cleared my inbox, I suddenly found it full again! I normally ignore most eBay emails, or at the most glance at them, but I thought I’d analise exactly why so many need to be sent. The item I’m going to concentrate […]
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search.live.com Referral Spam
I’ve recently noticed in my logs lots of visits to my posts from a Microsoft IP block (the last one was 65.55.109.226), supposedly with a referrer of http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=[random keyword]&form=QBHP . My posts never appear on the search results page, in fact some keywords are completely irrelevant. The visits even show up in my Woopra log, […]
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Freshy 2 & Gravatar Bugfix
Please Note: [update 2008-08-20]: This has now been fixed as of Freshy 2.0.8, so you shouldn’t need to make any changes other than updating to the latest version. I am leaving this post for the sake of archive. Any regular readers (although I don’t think I actually have any!) of this blog will notice I […]