30-Jul-2005

TUD
Check the XP machines for a change. AntiVirus and system need a checkup. Started with Athene, just XP because Anti-Virus is updated automatically. It's a small one this time: just the program that checks the activation. This is no problem - all havce a valid (legal) installation.
Found new MSN toolbar. Yep, why not? Well:
It will change the home page to be MSN.COM and that cannot be changed "due to security restrictions". Not even by the administrator. Even worse: it will connect to the internet when searching the harddisk.
Removing it required a system restore, because it still kept the reference to MSN as home page unchangable. After that, ani-virus didn't come up properly and had to re-installed. Ok, SYSMGR's mistake, since that had been updated before a restore-point was created on installation of the new MSN toolbar (that does NOT create one. Another reason not to install that!)
Done Hera and Aphrodite as well, but here NO MSN update either, now knowing what's wrong there. For a change, without any problem.

This took all time, so no progress on the Pivot front. One thing, though: users cannot register themselves????

But for the rest, Diana just does it's job.
Checked the logfiles - had some attempts from German script kiddies to get into the FTP account. At least, it looks like that. Have to create a script to find out what ISP they use and have the taken off-line due to these attempts? (No good ISP will allow hacking attempts, would they...)