January 13, 2005
Shorts, MS anti-spyware
Shorts
With temperatures in the low teens (°C) today I ran home from the train station wearing shorts—a first for a January 13th for me. Unfortunately, like yesterday, it was pouring rain though, unlike yesterday, it wasn’t a thunderstorm. Of course, being winter, tonight’s temperatures will go below freezing and snow is expected.
Anti-Spyware

I tried Microsoft’s beta anti-Spyware software at work and at home yesterday. It seems to be pretty simple-minded about filenames and directories. It found a file, cat.exe, in the system32 directory and called it the Dutch Porn Dialer. Actually it’s a Windows port of the Unix cat command. It also called two expat.dll files spyware. These are an XML parsing library.

I think the software needs more work.

 
Posted by jservice at January 13, 2005 10:04 PM
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