RE: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-11 Thread Bruce Beckwith
Since September 2003, .ORG has offered resolution of new registrations and changes to domain name records within 5 minutes. This was announced in the following release http://www.pir.org/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2003-09-08-01 Regards, Bruce Bruce W. Beckwith VP, Operations Public

Re: OT: Re: Critters

2004-07-11 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Cats and Spiders, Ha ! I was involved with the construction of a radio telescope in the Spitzbergen settlement of Ny Alesund, Norway (78 degrees 56 minutes north). http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/images/telbig/nyales.gif Staff were assigned Colt 45 revolvers because the area was frequented by

Re: OT: Re: Critters

2004-07-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Marshall Eubanks wrote: Reliance Infocomm is installing 80,000 km of fiber in India. I wonder if they have any tiger stories. Not unless they are installing fiber in one of very few national parks. Or maybe into a zoo or circus. Tigers have been hunted into near extinction in India, as have

Re: OT: Re: Critters

2004-07-11 Thread Jeff Kell
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: And elephants have been known to crash into breweries, get drunk and go around uprooting telephone poles in some parts of the country (like the thickly forested north east). Sounds like our local Ma Bell spinoff linesmen. Jeff :-)

Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Sean Donelan
Spyware isn't the best term for what is happening, but it is quickly exceeding (or contributing) to all the other problems associated with the online (not just Internet) world. You probably need to be a paid subscriber or visit a public library

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Michel Py
Sean Donelan wrote: Spyware isn't the best term for what is happening, but it is quickly exceeding (or contributing) to all the other problems associated with the online (not just Internet) world. Indeed. Lately, I have not been able to clean a very annoying piece of crud named

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:24:19 -0700, Michel Py wrote: None of the other crapware removers I have tried could clean the machine either. Try Bazooka spyware detector from http://www.kephyr.com/. This detected for me a bunch of malware neither Spybot nor Adaware caught. Jeffrey Race

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 5:24 PM Subject: RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Indeed. Lately, I have not been able to clean a very annoying piece of crud named

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Michel Py
Michael Painter wrote: You're right...it can be a sob to remove. CWShredder has worked well for me. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html First thing I tried after Ad-aware and Spybot, no go :-( In some cases, the only way out of it is HiJackthis

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Try booting into safe mode before running software to detect or remove spyware; some of them fight to survive if they are running, dunno if it is the case with CoolWebSearch. Rubens - Original Message - From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Michel Py
Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: Try booting into safe mode before running software to detect or remove spyware; some of them fight to survive if they are running, dunno if it is the case with CoolWebSearch. Tried that too, does not help with CWS. Michel.