September 20, 2005:

• Poker comment spam

  As mentioned in a previous post Referring pages from poker sites I’m getting fed up with this garbage. Here are some more references.
  Spam Huntress Poker comment spam run
  threadwatch.org Poker Sites under Blogger Attack an opposing view
  t d a x p Poker
  Guardian Unlimited http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/04/25/poker_blogging.html This is almost funny, half the comments are poker spam

August 4, 2005:

• Ewido trojan scanner

  Ever since the otmaker problems of last month, it seems a good idea to do more comprehensive checking. I’ve had good advice to run the Ewido trojan scanner. However, someone forgot to tell me it won’t run in WIndows 98, so I have to reboot into Windows XP.
  It finds a massive number of traffic cookies, […]

August 3, 2005:

• CCleaner

  CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
  Running this can find some very strange things. I found file extensions (which should be typically .com .exe .html) as complete sentences of meaningfull text. Either […]

July 20, 2005:

• Otmaker - spyware? returns

  The weird otmaker is now installed again. It’s back in windows\system and also system startup. I’ve run Ad-Aware and Norton AntiVirus and nothing was found. This system normally runs in Windows 98SE, but booted into Windows XP and run the Microsoft Beta Adware, and again nothing found. It seems it might be connected to cfgwiz32.exe.
  Manually […]

July 15, 2005:

• Otmaker - spyware?

  The computer (Win98SE) is misbehaving, a couple of applications are not running correctly. After some checking and detective work, there seems to be an unknown application Otmaker running, ctrl+alt+del, stops it but then a new application thnal5c starts up. Checking in the temp directory, there are indications this application was installed yesterday by some unknown […]