- This entry is post dated to back-fill the gaps in the monthly entries for '08 and '09 (see Dec '08).
- I got the big RIF today from First American. In hindsight I knew it was coming and also in hindsight I now see all the extra activities I was doing at the request of the Systems' folks was an effort to justify my position but alas it did not prevail.
- In addition to losing the mem sticks and the HDD I was hit with a trojan browser hijacking virus.
- This piece-of-crap virus took a week and a lot of effort to rid the machine (local Windows box) of this pestilence.
- As a result I have discovered TrendMicro does a poor job of real-time virus catching. I had to resort to TrendMicro hijackthis program to root out the culprits. I also found out the TrendMicro (nor anyother tool) will delete this type of virus. The virus is so nasty as to accomplish some type of unbreakable file permissions. The file permissions are unbreakable at least in terms of Windows tools.
- At last I was able to delete the undeletable virus .DLLs by downloading and burning the sysresccd.org bootable Linux CD. The Linux CD boots up and then allows the user to mount the target disk partition and filesystem and viola! the good ol' /bin/rm works like a charm!
- As a result I wound up installing Squid to help fend off the browser hijack attacks and if there is anything positive from this nasty virus attack is I am not able to re-direct my unsecured Pebble blog traffic to: http://www.davidwbrown.name/pebble without having to use the 8080 port. Additionally, I have installed ClamAV and if I can get the Samba module to work I will be able to drop TrendMicro.
