Archive for the ‘IT’ Category

Lexmark A Cartridge

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I have found a source of the Lexmark ‘A’ cartridges for my X5650 which I should be able to refill. (36XLA and 37XLA) from easyinkz

Malware

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Spent too much time today battling Malware which had managed to evade Spybot! I was getting MS windows style alerts that Malware was slowing my machine. Closing the pop up immediately took me to a web site for Anti SpyWare Knight – I immediatley closed the Firefox tab and did a search on the said Knight. This is the malware and the spoof popups are to trick you into downloading the very Malware they claim to protect against.

After consulting the Spybot forums I decided to run the Trend Micro House Call which found 3 miscreants POSSIBLE_SCRDL, TROJ_GYPKON.C and TROJ_FRAUDLOA.CR and after deleting them and rebooting the pop ops are gone. I will surely be looking at Trend Micro again.

Current state of play 6th November

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

1 Win Xp Desktop
1 Laptop(old Compaq Evo c600N)
1 Ubuntu Test bed (old Mesh AMD Athlon, 256MB)
1 Half built NAS project
1 Belkin router 4 ports and wireless
1 Cable modem -virgin broadband