Thursday, February 17, 2005
Your learning! And I am so proud of ya. Now for the info you asked for. A safe "whois" site.
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
And for those who don't know what a "whois" webpage does read on. (And if you know what it is, just go to the link below, & no you don't HAVE to say "thanks", but it would be nice.)
Ok, so someone just sent you to a link to a website that you don't know and you do know that the someone, although is a friend, doesn't know NOT to send out link to a bad site that are out there just to "FIND YOU". Like some of those "Free smilie face sites". And others. Yes, I told a to use the Opera browser and that's good. But, there are "whois" site. You go to the whois site and put in the address to the site you don't know and the Whois site comes back and tell you who owns the domain name and alike.
That how I found out years ago and before it became comman knowage that Google owned Blogspot.com and that's why blogs are free there. Google just want the info from your blog for their search site, etc. And that's too is why Google gave out free email as well. So it's not so free. And yes, they are who I use for this blog, but for me and this blog that's OK. Because more people find me as Google exploits the info of the blog. Anyway, there are "whois" sites out there now that are out there just to "get ya". I've been there and been had. Spyware, don't ya know!
So as I was talking to customer service at Register.com, 1-877-454-5211 for sales, they are the people that I registed "letsnet.org" with over a year ago. I've been useing them for me and you,info, and is thier price is not 5.00 a year but the serice is what you want and they gave service very, very well. So, what does that have to do with a "whois" site, they have one and said OK to my tell you of it and your useing it for your safey.
And yes, you use them for your safety now and maybe you'll use them for your domain name later. Everone wins? Yes. And this is a good thing...
Link to a safe "whois", thanks to Register.com http://www.register.com/whois_lookup.cgi?
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Microsoft Recalls Xbox Power Cords - 14.5 mill of 'em
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it was recalling 14.1 million power cords globally for its Xbox (news - web sites) game console because they can be a fire hazard.
The Redmond software company said fewer than one in 10,000 of its Xbox consoles could have the problem, and added that 30 customers have reported fire damage.
Seven Xbox users burned their hands, while 23 reported smoke damage or damage to their carpets or entertainment centers.
It wasn't immediately clear how long the company had known about the safety issue.
Everywhere except Europe, the recall affects Xboxes manufactured before Oct. 23, 2003. In Europe, it affects those manufactured before Jan. 13, 2004.
Customers can order a free replacement cord by going to the game console's Web site, www.xbox.com. Until a new power cord is delivered, the company is recommending that Xbox users turn off their game players while not in use.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Spyware Can Steal Information, & Crash Computer
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
LANCASTER, Pa. -- Spyware is the fastest growing threat on the Internet and it's more dangerous than a computer virus.
Spyware slows down your computer and watches what you're doing.
You may not see it, but it's in there, lurking inside your computer.
A recent study sanctioned by the U.S. government found spyware on 80 percent of 1,500 computers that were examined.
"A lot of people don't understand how it's installed, understand how to get rid of it and don't understand what it's doing in the background," said Glenn Groman, with CIMBRIAN.
What it's doing is tracking your activity on the Internet and reporting it to advertisers who could then bombard you with pop-up ads for items related to what you've been looking at on the Web.
Spyware is not supposed to be recording your personal, sensitive information, but it can.
"Passwords, credit card information -- yeah, those programs are called key loggers. Where basically, they're logging your keystrokes, recording that information and sending it off," Groman said.
Of course, if someone gets your personal information and uses it, that's illegal, but the spyware itself is not illegal.
Spyware does not force itself onto your computer. In almost all cases you have to open the door and let it in.
The most common way to get spyware is to download file-sharing software like screensavers and other free programs off the Internet.
Groman showed News 8 how the spyware is buried in the fine print, which most of us never even read.
"And by abiding to that end user license agreement, I'm telling them to install those five spyware programs on my computer," Groman said.
Reading the fine print may keep the spyware away, but once it's there you'll notice a barrage of pop up ads, your homepage repeatedly changes, new toolbars and icons appear and your computer runs slowly with repeated error messages.
To get rid of spyware, don't download just any free removal program, because some of them can actually install more spyware on your computer.
Ad-Aware is one of several free and reliable anti-spyware programs you can download. Spybotis also well-known and free of charge.
Make sure you set the program to scan once a week, because the spyware battle is just beginning.
"Once these spyware people get a lot more adept at what they're doing, they're going to steal information a lot faster than people can imagine," Groman said.
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Firefox continues gains against IE
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The popularity of alternative Web browser Firefox continues to rise at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a new study.
From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers studied by online measurement company WebSideStory used the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser, a gain of 0.88 percentage points. At the same time, IE usage declined 0.7 percent to 92.7 percent, the firm reported. WebSideStory said IE use has declined from 96.7 percent since June.
The study measured market share by embedding sensors on major Web sites such as those of the Walt Disney Internet Group, Best Buy, Sony and Liz Claiborne. Previous studies from WebSideStory tested all operating systems, but the company said its Windows-only numbers are more accurate because new configurations in Apple Computer's Safari browser inadvertently skewed results. WebSideStory retrieves data from 30 million Internet users a day passing through its monitored sites. The company then takes a snapshot of two days and compares the growth.
Mozilla, an open-source software foundation formed by Netscape, launched Firefox 1.0 in November, after recording more than 8 million downloads of its test version. As downloads continued to surge, measurement firms such as WebSideStory and Dutch market researcher OneStat.com began releasing data tracking Firefox gains and IE declines. In December, OneStat reported that IE's market share had slipped to 88.9 percent, a figure Microsoft disputed.
Even though Microsoft maintains the dominance it has enjoyed since defeating Netscape Communications' browser in the mid-1990s, Firefox's snowballing popularity is raising eyebrows.
Much of Firefox's success rides on it simply not being IE. Firefox fans have praised the new browser's automatic pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing features, but security has been one of the big points. Viruses and spyware are often aimed at IE because of its near-total market dominance.
However, Firefox's popularity may eventually attract the attention of malicious code writers trying to exploit security holes. The recent discovery of a potentially damaging software flaw suggested the potential for Firefox attacks.
Since beginning its measurements last summer, WebSideStory has been cautious to draw any broad conclusions about Firefox's popularity. This time around, the company said many people are not only downloading Firefox, they're sticking with it and using it.
"We are finding that in many cases there's room for two browsers on the desktop, and in other cases people are completely switched over," said Geoff Johnston, an analyst at WebSideStory.
A Microsoft spokesman did not immediately comment for this story.
END
And don't forget Opera.com for the browser that is better than Firefox ( which I use) for controling cookies. You need to use both Opera and Firefox.
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Google snaps up top Firefox programmer
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Google has hired the lead programmer of the Firefox Web browser, the newest step in the search engine powerhouse's encroachment on Microsoft's turf.
Ben Goodger announced Monday on his blog that he took a job with Google on Jan. 10. The move is the latest of several that are fueling speculation that Google plans its own Web browser.
Firefox, which has cut into the dominant market share enjoyed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, is a variant of the open-source Mozilla browser project begun in 1998 by Netscape Communications. Despite no longer being employed by the Mozilla Foundation, "my role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged," Goodger said on his blog.
At Google, Goodger will continue work on the browser. Since the release of Firefox 1.0 in 2004, he's been focusing on "successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases," he said on the blog.
Among other clues pointing to browser interest at Google are the registration of the gbrowser.com Internet address, the hiring of some key programmers, and sponsorship of a Mozilla programmer meeting.
Even without a browser, Google is involved in significant competition with Microsoft. Both companies are working on desktop search tools, and Microsoft is pushing its MSN Search service as an alternative to Google.
Firefox also has a built-in search box that offers Google's search engine as its default option.
Goodger himself complained about Microsoft's software in a December posting on his blog.
"I've set up a new personal e-mail address, and as soon as I can figure out how, I will make it so that it cannot receive e-mail from Microsoft Outlook users. Why? Because Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are the unsung security hole in most people's systems," the posting said. "Microsoft would like you to continue not to think about your software and continue to use theirs, paying what amounts to extortion fees on ISP filtering solutions."
Goodger's hiring at Google this month explains a Jan. 22 blog posting in which he said he had just returned to Firefox 1.1 development after being "incredibly busy this past two weeks taking care of some important matters." He indicated earlier in the month that he hoped the version would be released in March.
According to the plans published on the Firefox Wiki page, version 1.1 is called Deer Park. Plans for that new version include tools to help users of several Mac OS X browsers move their settings to Firefox. Also being discussed are localization ideas to make Firefox better able to work in multiple languages.
Version 1.5, called The Ocho, is slated to get improvements in accessibility and for use on large groups of computers.
Planned version 2.0 features include improvements to tabbed browsing, password management, software updates, software downloads and performance on Apple Computer systems.
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Google snaps up top Firefox programmer
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Google has hired the lead programmer of the Firefox Web browser, the newest step in the search engine powerhouse's encroachment on Microsoft's turf.
Ben Goodger announced Monday on his blog that he took a job with Google on Jan. 10. The move is the latest of several that are fueling speculation that Google plans its own Web browser.
Firefox, which has cut into the dominant market share enjoyed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, is a variant of the open-source Mozilla browser project begun in 1998 by Netscape Communications. Despite no longer being employed by the Mozilla Foundation, "my role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged," Goodger said on his blog.
At Google, Goodger will continue work on the browser. Since the release of Firefox 1.0 in 2004, he's been focusing on "successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases," he said on the blog.
Among other clues pointing to browser interest at Google are the registration of the gbrowser.com Internet address, the hiring of some key programmers, and sponsorship of a Mozilla programmer meeting.
Even without a browser, Google is involved in significant competition with Microsoft. Both companies are working on desktop search tools, and Microsoft is pushing its MSN Search service as an alternative to Google.
Firefox also has a built-in search box that offers Google's search engine as its default option.
Goodger himself complained about Microsoft's software in a December posting on his blog.
"I've set up a new personal e-mail address, and as soon as I can figure out how, I will make it so that it cannot receive e-mail from Microsoft Outlook users. Why? Because Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are the unsung security hole in most people's systems," the posting said. "Microsoft would like you to continue not to think about your software and continue to use theirs, paying what amounts to extortion fees on ISP filtering solutions."
Goodger's hiring at Google this month explains a Jan. 22 blog posting in which he said he had just returned to Firefox 1.1 development after being "incredibly busy this past two weeks taking care of some important matters." He indicated earlier in the month that he hoped the version would be released in March.
According to the plans published on the Firefox Wiki page, version 1.1 is called Deer Park. Plans for that new version include tools to help users of several Mac OS X browsers move their settings to Firefox. Also being discussed are localization ideas to make Firefox better able to work in multiple languages.
Version 1.5, called The Ocho, is slated to get improvements in accessibility and for use on large groups of computers.
Planned version 2.0 features include improvements to tabbed browsing, password management, software updates, software downloads and performance on Apple Computer systems.
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Google snaps up top Firefox programmer
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Google has hired the lead programmer of the Firefox Web browser, the newest step in the search engine powerhouse's encroachment on Microsoft's turf.
Ben Goodger announced Monday on his blog that he took a job with Google on Jan. 10. The move is the latest of several that are fueling speculation that Google plans its own Web browser.
Firefox, which has cut into the dominant market share enjoyed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, is a variant of the open-source Mozilla browser project begun in 1998 by Netscape Communications. Despite no longer being employed by the Mozilla Foundation, "my role with Firefox and the Mozilla project will remain largely unchanged," Goodger said on his blog.
At Google, Goodger will continue work on the browser. Since the release of Firefox 1.0 in 2004, he's been focusing on "successful 1.1, 1.5 and 2.0 releases," he said on the blog.
Among other clues pointing to browser interest at Google are the registration of the gbrowser.com Internet address, the hiring of some key programmers, and sponsorship of a Mozilla programmer meeting.
Even without a browser, Google is involved in significant competition with Microsoft. Both companies are working on desktop search tools, and Microsoft is pushing its MSN Search service as an alternative to Google.
Firefox also has a built-in search box that offers Google's search engine as its default option.
Goodger himself complained about Microsoft's software in a December posting on his blog.
"I've set up a new personal e-mail address, and as soon as I can figure out how, I will make it so that it cannot receive e-mail from Microsoft Outlook users. Why? Because Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are the unsung security hole in most people's systems," the posting said. "Microsoft would like you to continue not to think about your software and continue to use theirs, paying what amounts to extortion fees on ISP filtering solutions."
Goodger's hiring at Google this month explains a Jan. 22 blog posting in which he said he had just returned to Firefox 1.1 development after being "incredibly busy this past two weeks taking care of some important matters." He indicated earlier in the month that he hoped the version would be released in March.
According to the plans published on the Firefox Wiki page, version 1.1 is called Deer Park. Plans for that new version include tools to help users of several Mac OS X browsers move their settings to Firefox. Also being discussed are localization ideas to make Firefox better able to work in multiple languages.
Version 1.5, called The Ocho, is slated to get improvements in accessibility and for use on large groups of computers.
Planned version 2.0 features include improvements to tabbed browsing, password management, software updates, software downloads and performance on Apple Computer systems.
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Leading Antispyware Vendors Quietly Drop WhenU Detection from Mike Healan
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
Mike Healan
Feb 14, 2005
It appears that two popular antispyware companies, PestPatrol (owned by Computer Associates) and Lavasoft, have stopped detecting software from WhenU. In tests performed recently by Eric Howes, using the latest updated target database files, neither PestPatrol nor Ad-aware detected any software from WhenU.
WhenU makes ad serving software which is bundled with unrelated programs available for download for free from the internet. WhenU's software includes Save!, SaveNow and ClockSync. According to a PCPitstop user survey, 87% of persons with WhenU software on their computer had no idea how it became installed.
What led to the decision to delist WhenU's software after years of listing it as a target? One possible explanation is a recent change in the way WhenU's software is bundled into certain other programs. For instance, in the newest version of Bearshare, it is made very obvious that WhenU will be installed.
The Bearshare bundle has a very clear disclosure of WhenU and is a dramatic improvement over past versions. At present, it seems that only the Bearshare installer contains the new and improved WhenU disclosure. Other programs which bundle it still use the older, less acceptable methods.
Unfortunately, there is no way to know for sure the reasons behind Lavasoft's and PestPatrol's apparent decision to cease targeting WhenU. There was no announcement from Lavasoft about removing WhenU's software from their target database. Questions from users about the absence of WhenU from Lavasoft's Ad-aware so far have gone unanswered.
This is highly unusual, as Lavasoft typically lists the addition or removal of targets, when they announce that a new target database file is available for download. PestPatrol reportedly did announce their decision to remove WhenU's software as a target of their software but that announcement has disappeared from their web site.
The absence of WhenU in the newest targeting databases does not appear to be an error by either company. Both Lavasoft and PestPatrol have deleted nearly all mention of WhenU from their online spyware databases. On the PestPatrol web site's list of Most Prevalent Pests, WhenU software is listed in four different places. However, if you click on the link to read more information about the software, you are presented with a Computer Associates search engine that shows zero results for the WhenU software name. When searching for WhenU in Lavasoft's Threat Assessment Chart, there is no information at all about WhenU.
This is all very curious. Why would the makers of two of the most popular antispyware programs remove detection for WhenU without announcing it and then erase all mention of WhenU from their web sites? At the very least, they owe it to their users to announce that their software no longer will detect WhenU. People depend on these programs to find and remove any software that they may not want. An explanation of why WhenU no longer is detected would also be nice.
In an even stranger development, it turns out that Aluria's Spyware Eliminator is detecting WhenU's software. Aluria announced last year that they had certified WhenU's software to be spyware free and removed WhenU software as a target. Aluria even partnered with WhenU to produce software. It was a surprising and unpopular decision that cost Aluria the goodwill and trust of much of the antispyware community.
There is no explanation for WhenU's sudden reappearance as a target on Aluria's targeting database. None of WhenU's products appear in Aluria's online spyware database.
It is possible that Aluria is detecting WhenU's software in error. AOL provides a branded version of Aluria's Spyware Eliminator to AOL members. After the controversial decision to certify WhenU as spyware free, AOL made it clear that they would require Aluria to continue to provide detection for WhenU in the version of Aluria's software which is distributed by AOL to its members. Quite possibly, Aluria has included the AOL version of their target database file in the general public version of their Spyware Eliminator program.
Aluria's current detection of WhenU might be a simple error. The actions of Lavasoft and PestPatrol do not appear to be errors. They appear to have removed detection for a very prevalent adware, one whose presence is often a surprise to the people who find it on their computers, and they both appear to have carried out a systematic erasure of WhenU from their online databases. Lavasoft and PestPatrol users deserve an explanation for these actions, not a cover up.
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Fake Microsoft Mail Is Spyware Phishing Attack
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
Security researchers have set off the alarm for a new phishing scam that piggybacks on Microsoft's plans to make its "Windows Genuine Advantage" anti-piracy initiative mandatory later this year.
According to an advisory from Websense Inc., Internet scammers are blasting out e-mails with spoofed sender addresses to trick users into downloading a so-called security tool.
The e-mails arrive with the subject line "Microsoft Windows Update" and the sender is listed as "security@microsoft.com," the company said.
Even though Microsoft never sends out security updates via e-mail, Websense said the news that Microsoft plans to clamp down on the way updates are released to pirated versions of Windows could fool users into launching the download.
Websense said the e-mail points to a URL that is hosted in Romania. Once the user accesses the site in Romania, a Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object (BHO DLL) is installed on the machine.
The Browser Help Object is flagged as malicious spyware, the company warned.
A second version of the phishing attack also claims to be from Microsoft and claims that many people are illegally using its services without paying. The scammers attempt to fool users into updating credit card information.
"The e-mail links to a Web site which, upon accessing, attempts to install a Browser Helper Object which is then installed on the machine. The BHO is also spyware," Websense added.
The company also issued an alert for separate phishing attack that takes advantage of an apparent hole in Yahoo Inc.'s search engine to redirect users to fraudulent Web sites.
"Websense Security Labs has seen attacks and a variety of targets throughout last night and today that are using this technique to alleviate e-mail spam filters and other URL filters," the company warned.
Websense said the phishing attack method was detected in the past in the Lycos and Google search engines.
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Michael Malone, in a commentary last week for ABC News, declared that it’s the beginning of the end for Microsoft. And he makes a lot of sense.
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
It’s stuff I’ve been saying and thinking for some time now.
Silicon Insider: R.I.P. Microsoft?
After Dominating the Technology Industry for Years, is Microsoft Poised to Collapse?
Commentary by MICHAEL S. MALONE
Feb. 10, 2005 - Is Microsoft dying?
Business reporters -- like, I suspect analysts and venture capitalists -- develop over time a set of diagnostic tools for analyzing the relative health of companies we encounter. This bag of tricks is mostly subjective, some of it no doubt unconscious, and we constantly test it against experience, most of it bad. That is, every time we get suckered into writing an upbeat story about an evil, incompetent or doomed company, we swear we will never make that mistake again -- then we scrutinize where we went wrong and what warning signals we missed.
This can make us seem cynical after awhile. But let me tell you: there's nothing quite like having some pensioner or widow tell you that they lost their life savings because they based their investments on one of your articles. You will never believe a corporate pitch again.
Needless to say, these diagnostic tools vary with the company. You don't analyze a new entrepreneurial company the way you do a Fortune 500 giant. One of the tools I'm best known for is Folding Table Theory of Start-Ups. It says that when you walk into a new entrepreneurial company and you see a nice lobby and expensive office furniture, that company has its priorities screwed up -- either it is more interested in comfort than success or it is over-capitalized and lazy -- and it will never make it.
By comparison, when you see the start-up team working at folding tables or old army surplus desks, you know that it is properly focused both on getting the job done and financial discipline -- and has a good chance of being a winner. That's what I saw at the beginning of eBay (and Siebel, Tivo, Electronic Arts, Atari and a host of other great companies) and it's telling that Jeff Skoll kept that table near him during his entire tenure at the company.
The health of established firms, especially great ones, is more difficult to diagnose. The balance sheet can give some clues, but, because it captures the recent past rather than the near future, it can fool you. Most veteran reporters look at more subtle clues, like the comings and goings of key employees, slippage in the release dates of new products (or missing features), and subtle shifts in the tone of company news releases, advertisements and executive speeches.
But most of all, at least for me, there is the smell test: the faintest whiff of decay that comes from dying companies.
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Sometimes this smell can surprise you. Years ago, Fortune magazine asked me to do a story about Silicon Graphics, then one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley. In those days, SGI could do no wrong. It owned the graphic workstation market. It was working with the likes of Steven Spielberg. And its chairman, my old HP boss Ed McCracken, was being talked up for cabinet posts and ambassadorships. I fully expected to write the latest laud on the Valley's hottest young company.
But the instant I stepped on the SGI campus I knew something was wrong. The place just didn't FEEL right. Sure it was shiny and new and filled with shiny and bright employees. The products were great, and the financials were terrific. And yet, the company didn't pass the smell test. It was the little things: the chief executive officer that forgot the meeting with me (who forgets Fortune?), forcing the chairman to vamp for an hour; the much-awaited new product that arrived missing some key features; the sudden loss of some key employees.
I found myself with a serious case of cognitive dissonance. On paper, Silicon Graphics looked great, but in my gut it was a company in desperate straits. I went with my gut, and to Fortune's credit, the magazine backed me. CGI raised holy hell over the article when it appeared -- but subsequent events proved me right.
The same thing happened at Hewlett-Packard. In some very controversial editorials in The Wall Street Journal, I predicted that Carly Fiorina's stewardship of HP would be an unmitigated disaster, and would destroy the world's greatest company. Obviously, Fortune, Forbes and most of the rest of the business press didn't agree -- and all I managed to do was make myself persona non-gratis at HP. But, as this week's news shows, my instincts were correct. [As an aside: If the first words out of the mouth of Carly's replacement aren't "The HP Way is back", the board should fire him, too.]
Is Microsoft Rotting?
That brings us to Microsoft. The other day I had lunch with the CEO of a mid-sized semiconductor equipment manufacturer. SEMs are the forgotten folks of the digital revolution. As the people who make the machines that make the chips that make the electronic products that run the world, they are at the absolute top of the electronics food chain. They typically know about what's coming in the electronics world earlier than anybody else. But their products are so arcane -- who cares about automated wafer steppers? -- the press almost never talks to them.
In the course of the conversation we talked about the coming Intel-Samsung war, the beginnings of a slowdown in the SEM business (presaging a chip turndown next year), and the sad fate of HP. It was in the middle of all this that a notion suddenly appeared in my mind: Microsoft is dying.
Why the sudden thought? Perhaps it was talking about HP; maybe it was the fact we WEREN'T talking about Microsoft (which would have monopolized our conversation a few years ago), or perhaps it was just my instincts were finally putting diverse bits of information together into a single conclusion.
Great, healthy companies not only dominate the market, but share of mind. Look at Apple these days. But when was the last time you thought about Microsoft, except in frustration or anger? The company just announced a powerful new search engine, designed to take on Google -- but did anybody notice? Meanwhile, open systems world -- created largely in response to Microsoft's heavy-handed hegemony -- is slowly carving away market share from Gates & Co.: Linux and Firefox hold the world's imagination these days, not Windows and Explorer. The only thing Microsoft seems busy at these days is patching and plugging holes.
Speaking of Gates: if you remember, he was supposed to be going back into the lab to recreate the old MS alchemy. But lately it seems -- statesmanship being the final refuge of the successful entrepreneur -- that he's been devoting more time to philanthropy than capitalism. And though Steve Ballmer is legendary for his sound and fury, these days his leadership seems to be signifying nothing.
Longhorn's Delayed Release
There are other clues as well. Microsoft has always had trouble with stand-alone applications, but in its core business it has been as relentless as the Borg. Now the company seems to have trouble executing even the one task that should take precedence over everything else: getting "Longhorn," its Windows replacement, to market. Longhorn is now two years late. That would be disastrous for a beloved product like the Macintosh, but for a product that is universally reviled as a necessary, but foul-tasting, medicine, this verges on criminal insanity. Or, more likely, organizational paralysis.
Does anyone out there love MSN? I doubt it; it seems to share AOL's fate of being disliked but not hated enough to change your e-mail account. And do college kids still dream of going to work at MS? Five years ago it was a source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire -- now, who cares? It's just Motorola with wetter winters.
None of this should come as a surprise to Gates. I remember in the mid-90s he shrugged off the claims that Microsoft was unstoppable by noting that the electronics industry was so cyclical that no company ever stayed on top for long. In that light, Microsoft had a longer run than most. It is still a well-run company, which argues that its fade will be long and slow, like DEC, rather than a sudden death like Wang. And it may yet come back -- there may already be something revolutionary under way in a back lab in Everett or Mountain View -- but, like Yahoo! and Apple before it, Microsoft may have to die in order to be reborn.
For now, though, none of that is obvious. Microsoft is still the dominant company in high-tech, the cynosure of all those things people love and hate about computing, the defining company of our time. It is huge, powerful and confident.
But if you sniff the air, you can just make out the first hints of rot.
Michael S. Malone, once called “the Boswell of Silicon Valley,” most recently was editor-at-large of Forbes ASAP magazine. He has covered the Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than 20 years, beginning with the San Jose Mercury-News as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. His articles and editorials have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Fortune, and for two years he was a columnist for The New York Times. He has hosted two national PBS shows: "Malone," a half-hour interview program that ran for nine years, and in 2001, a 16-part interview series called "Betting It All: The Entrepreneurs." Malone is best known as the author of a dozen books. His latest book, a collection of his best newspaper and magazine writings, is called "The Valley of Heart's Delight."
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Symantec hit by large-scale flaw Security hole affects nearly every product Symantec sells
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
Symantec hit by large-scale flaw
By John E. Dunn, Techworld.com
February 09, 2005
Symantec (Profile, Products, Articles) has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.
According to security rival ISS, which unearthed the vulnerability, the problem lies with the DEC2EXE module in the Symantec Anti-Virus Library, a part of the virus detection engine that makes it possible to detect malware inside executable files compressed using the freeware UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecuteables) format.
The vulnerable module fails to properly check within files when looking for viruses, a flaw that could allow an attacker to cause an software "heap overflow" using a specially crafted UPX file. ISS stated that this could, in turn, give an attacker unauthorized access to a network or its client PCs, as well as confidential information.
The company has posted an extensive list of affected products on its website, which includes its most popular programs for PC, Apple Mac, Linux and AS400 platforms, and even antispam software from Brightmail, a company acquired last year. Those versions not affected are mainly older, non-current versions of products or those updated most recently.
In an attempt to calm anxiety that a serious problem could affect almost its whole product line, Symantec emphasized that it had started removing the DEC2EXE module from its software before the issue came to light.
"Prior to ISS contacting Symantec with this vulnerability, Symantec had already removed the DEC2EXE engine from the scan engine upgrades implemented in the majority of Symantec products. Also, Symantec had planned the DEC2EXE engine removal from all affected Symantec product versions during upcoming maintenance updates," it stated on the company Web site.
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Anti-Spyware Consortium Falls Apart page 2
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
Ben Edelman, a Harvard University student who monitors the spyware scourge, said the inclusion of 180solutions in COAST was problematic from the start. In fact, Edelman said, Webroot and PestPatrol detect and remove the 180solutions application.
"For a fee, COAST is certifying controversial providers of allegedly unwanted software, dramatically complicating the role and duties of COAST and its members. COAST staff are providing favorable quotes in 180 press releases. Who can users trust?" Edelman argued.
Edelman has published a detailed research report with evidence of installation practices by 180solutions that are "outrageous and unethical." Among other things, Edelman found that 180solutions took advantage of known security vulnerabilities and failed to provide adequate disclosure notice.
"Indeed, in my testing, 180's installation practices remain among the worst in the industry," Edelman said.
PestPatrol's Curry confirmed that there were problems with legacy software released by 180solutions but insisted that COAST could be used to positively influence the company's business ethics.
"With viruses, you're dealing with malicious people. But in the spyware industry, you're dealing with legitimate companies with known investors. It's very valuable to reach out to them and set up guidelines for them. COAST was moving in that direction and having a positive influence," Curry insisted.
However, Webroot's Stiennon argued that 180solutions had not yet improved its installation practices. "They just promised to improve with a new version that's due out in the next 60 days. We don't know for sure," he argued.
He said the company's n-CASE adware program, which is bundled with freeware applications, remains listed as one of the top three spyware threats most frequently identified by Webroot's Spy Audit tool.
Edelman told eWEEK.com that COAST was always on tricky ground when it decided to get into the business of certifying companies that market spyware applications.
"Deceptive installations can be hard to find. On what basis would an organization certify a company's practices as improved? That the organization hasn't observed any bad practices in recent history? What if they just haven't been looking in the right places?" he argued.
"Certification is all the trickier when the certifying authority has a clear financial interest in issuing the certificate," Edelman added, noting that membership in COAST amounted to an annual fee of less than $10,000.
"Certifying any company on the basis of promises rather than actual reformed behavior is a bad idea. But that's exactly what COAST did with 180—certifying 180 on the basis that 180 has agreed to work with COAST to improve its practices, but not that 180's practices have already improved," Edelman said.
Officials at COAST and 180solutions did not respond to queries for comment.
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Anti-Spyware Consortium Falls Apart
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
By Ryan Naraine of Eweek.com
A high-powered coalition of anti-spyware vendors has collapsed amid a rash of acrimony and finger-pointing.
The Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology vendors (COAST) was rendered toothless when three founding members—Webroot Software Inc., Aluria Software LLC and Computer Associates International Inc.'s PestPatrol—withdrew from the group, citing separate reasons for quitting.
Another founder, Lavasoft Inc., pulled out of the consortium earlier and accused COAST's leadership of adopting an "overt agenda to concentrate on revenue generation."
The latest withdrawals stem from the decision by COAST to allow membership to 180solutions Inc., a Bellevue, Wash.-based search marketing company that uses questionable tactics to install ad-serving software on computers.
In statements released over the weekend, Webroot and Aluria listed different reasons for leaving COAST, and although the inclusion of 180solutions was not mentioned, company executives made it clear that they were uncomfortable with the idea of adware firms using COAST membership as a marketing tool.
"Of late, we have become concerned that COAST is moving in a direction with which we cannot agree," Boulder, Colo.-based Webroot said in a statement.
"We have long championed an open dialog among anti-spyware solutions on standards criteria for defining spyware. However, we are not comfortable with the idea of COAST as a certification body or as a marketing tool for member companies."
Aluria, based on Orlando, Fla., said it tried in vain to get COAST to define a clear and comprehensive set of spyware standards and code of ethics for adware developers. "Despite our best efforts, however, COAST was slow-moving in setting standards. We have tried, but COAST is no longer a viable organization," Aluria added.
Sam Curry, vice president of product management for CA's eTrust brand, told eWEEK.com that PestPatrol also would pull out of the consortium, but he pinned the blame for the breakup squarely on the shoulders of Webroot and Aluria.
"I find it odd that 180solutions is the source of the conflict. The goal [of COAST] was to certify vendors that reformed their product. 180solutions went to great pains to make major changes. The new versions of their software conform to scorecards and standards," Curry said.
"It's sad that some ill-informed and hasty moves are drawing such attention. COAST really was doing something valuable and getting developers to change their questionable tactics," he added.
Richard Stiennon, vice president of threat research at Webroot, confirmed that the company was uncomfortable with the inclusion of adware/spyware companies and the direction in which COAST was headed.
"When we were originally forming COAST, we never envisaged it as a certification body. It was created as a place for anti-spyware vendors to meet, discuss and create standards for treating a common problem," Stiennon said in an interview with eWEEK.com.
"Suddenly, we have 180solutions and other adware vendors purchasing membership as some sort of marketing ploy. We were not comfortable with that direction."
He said Webroot abstained from the vote to include 180solutions and hinted that at least two other adware vendors with questionable installation and tracking techniques are in the queue for COAST membership.
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Monday, February 14, 2005
New Tools Making Online Work Easier
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
By MAY WONG
AP Technology Writer
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whizz by. Web sites are cited, then lost. It's often a jumbled mess, with no central online location for shared data. There must be a better way.
A new crop of tools aims to help turn the Web - be it on the public Internet or a company network - into much more than a collection of documents one visits like a museum: Look, but don't touch.
The idea is to make it easy to quickly post and remove stuff from digital bulletin boards where the online communities of the future will gather to catch up and trade ideas, images and work.
"We're turning the Web into a conversation," said Glenn Reid, chief executive and founder of Five Across Inc.
Reid's startup and several other companies will offer their visions for accomplishing that on stage at the DEMO conference in Arizona, an annual showcase of tech innovation.
All are trying to address in one way or another an emerging trend of making the Web less disjointed and more democratized - a richer, more organized forum for gathering and sharing information.
These companies, and many others, are all part of a growing industry specializing in what Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li calls "social media."
JotSpot Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup, is betting on Wikis, a type of Web page that can be edited by anyone.
Wikis could become a staging area of sorts for information, and JotSpot's new Web service targets businesses that want to give authorized users a common location in which to collaborate.
Co-workers can take a spreadsheet, build upon it, customize it, integrate data from the Web or e-mails and have all the information reside in one place on a Wiki Web site. Revisions are tracked and archived so nothing is ever lost.
Behind JotSpot is Joe Kraus, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the early search engine Excite.
Kraus became a believer in Wikis after he and fellow co-founder Graham Spencer got fed up with exchanging hundreds of e-mails and attachments and tried using a Wiki instead while working on a business plan. That ultimately led to JotSpot's birth in October, competing against Socialtext and a handful of others in the fledgling market.
"We're in this transition of making it ever easier to publish (on the Web) and integrate previously siloed information and personalizing it," said Kraus, who is also JotSpot's chief executive.
Others, like Five Across and iUpload, aim to use the power of another form of Web publishing, online journals commonly known as blogs, to help businesses or individuals streamline their teamwork or communication.
Easy to use and update, blogs have gained traction in the past few years and are used by everyone from political pundits to pre-adolescents.
More than 8 million Internet users have created blogs, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and a growing number of businesses are experimenting with blogs as tools for internal and external communication.
At DEMO, Palo Alto-based Five Across is introducing speedy technology that lets bloggers instantaneously update their blog pages with text, photos, audio or video clips, even spreadsheets and presentations, using easy drag-and-drop motions.
Called Bubbler, the tool allows members of a group to make a single blog more of a community than one person's mouthpiece.
Say someone has built a Web site for their child's soccer team. Setting up a community-style blog could help make the task easier, Reid said. A single person wouldn't be burdened with all the work.
The Bubbler blogging platform could also tap Five Across' existing software for instant messaging and file-sharing.
Ontario, Canada-based iUpload's new blogging product lets individuals communicate with other Web sites straight from their blogs. Users can pull their blog content - whether it's a book review or a submission to a photo contest - and send it to iUpload's online partners, which so far include auction giant eBay Inc., Web portal Yahoo Inc. and social networking site Tribe.
"You could live in your blog, author content and choose where the content will appear - all without traipsing all over the Internet," said iUpload's chief executive Robin Hopper.
Another startup, Pluck Corp., will launch at DEMO a Web browser companion that's designed to be a one-stop personal information manager for search, blogs and data feeds known as "Really Simple Syndication," or RSS - a system that grabs fresh information from designated sites and distributes summaries and links to the user.
A number of companies offer people the ability to compile RSS feeds on a single page, but Pluck also lets users share with friends and colleagues the feeds, Web site addresses and other information they find valuable. Pluck users can also direct the software to regularly scour the Web for items of interest.
The point is to save e-mail traffic and time.
The participants at this year's DEMO event, however, aren't the only ones that see the potential of turning what has traditionally been a read-only Web into what JotSpot's Kraus calls "a write-able Web."
Tech giants such as Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo already have made investments in consumer-oriented blogging technologies and have started to integrate them into their Web portal services.
"There are big players setting the pace with their large base of customers, but a lot will be driven by the innovation of some of these smaller companies," analyst Li said. "It's like a genie now. You can't put it back in the bottle."
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For what it's worth I have 3 blogs, this one and two others and I've have started and own 2 groups in Yahoo. As well as I'm a member of about 10 yahoo groups total. And I'll be making at lease one of this kinda blog soon I think if for nothing else than for me and my beautyful other half to message back and forth.
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T-Mobile Hack by Bruce Schneier
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley
As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.
For at least seven months last year, a hacker had access to T-Mobile's customer network. He's known to have accessed information belonging to 400 customers -- names, Social Security numbers, voicemail messages, SMS messages, photos -- and probably had the ability to access data belonging to any of T-Mobile's 16.3 million U.S. customers. But in its fervor to report on the security of cell phones, and T-Mobile in particular, the media missed the most important point of the story: The security of much of our data is not under our control.
This is new. A dozen years ago, if someone wanted to look through your mail, they would have to break into your house. Now they can just break into your ISP. Ten years ago, your voicemail was on an answering machine in your house; now it's on a computer owned by a telephone company. Your financial data is on Websites protected only by passwords. The list of books you browse, and the books you buy, is stored in the computers of some online bookseller. Your affinity card allows your supermarket to know what food you like. Data that used to be under your direct control is now controlled by others.
We have no choice but to trust these companies with our privacy, even though the companies have little incentive to protect that privacy. T-Mobile suffered some bad press for its lousy security, nothing more. It'll spend some money improving its security, but it'll be security designed to protect its reputation from bad PR, not security designed to protect the privacy of its customers.
This loss of control over our data has other effects, too. Our protections against police abuse have been severely watered down. The courts have ruled that the police can search your data without a warrant, as long as that data is held by others. The police need a warrant to read the e-mail on your computer; but they don't need one to read it off the backup tapes at your ISP. According to the Supreme Court, that's not a search as defined by the 4th Amendment.
This isn't a technology problem, it's a legal problem. The courts need to recognize that in the information age, virtual privacy and physical privacy don't have the same boundaries. We should be able to control our own data, regardless of where it is stored. We should be able to make decisions about the security and privacy of that data, and have legal recourse should companies fail to honor those decisions. And just as the Supreme Court eventually ruled that tapping a telephone was a Fourth Amendment search, requiring a warrant -- even though it occurred at the phone company switching office -- the Supreme Court must recognize that reading e-mail at an ISP is no different.
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