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So today, back with the Windows vs. Linux stuff. New director presents me with a printed page of the IRS' requirements for online filing of tax returns. Incredible. It says you must have Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6, Adobe reader 7, or Netscape 7. These have all been dead and unsupported for years now. They explicitly say that Firefox won't work, and Macintoshes are not allowed. How can they get away with this crap? So once again I explained that I can't put Internet Explorer on Linux systems. Also that we have always discouraged people from filing their taxes on library computers. They run out of time trying to do it, and the whole business just isn't secure enough.
I countered with the Cisco report on the latest ZeuS trojan exploit, all those fake LinkedIn messages that some of us are seeing. Apparently none of the antivirus or network filter software stops the malicious web site in the message from infecting you, as long as you are running Internet Explorer and Windows. Once infected, antivirus programs can't find it, and it starts collecting keystrokes from password fields, mailing your accounts and passwords back to some creep on the net somewhere. If our public access computers were running IE and Windows, I'm sure some would already be infected, with naive users logging into their bank accounts, credit cards, and other sensitive sites on them. So far, Linux and Firefox are reported to be immune to this one.
No hummingbirds sighted this week, so we've probably seen the last of them for this year. Sure enough, Sept. 25 was our last sighting again.
Gary did not bring home the puppy he went to see yesterday. He thought she was too young and hyperactive for him. Now he has second thoughts, and says if she's still there be next Tuesday he will go back and he wants me to go with him. Dunno what I think of that. I talked him into taking two of our previous rescues and both turned out to be wonderful. But I also talked him into getting our first sheep, and they've been quite a mixed bag of something ever since.
Rug is completely woven, but still on loom. Probably tomorrow I can get it off there and do the hems on the ends.
I countered with the Cisco report on the latest ZeuS trojan exploit, all those fake LinkedIn messages that some of us are seeing. Apparently none of the antivirus or network filter software stops the malicious web site in the message from infecting you, as long as you are running Internet Explorer and Windows. Once infected, antivirus programs can't find it, and it starts collecting keystrokes from password fields, mailing your accounts and passwords back to some creep on the net somewhere. If our public access computers were running IE and Windows, I'm sure some would already be infected, with naive users logging into their bank accounts, credit cards, and other sensitive sites on them. So far, Linux and Firefox are reported to be immune to this one.
No hummingbirds sighted this week, so we've probably seen the last of them for this year. Sure enough, Sept. 25 was our last sighting again.
Gary did not bring home the puppy he went to see yesterday. He thought she was too young and hyperactive for him. Now he has second thoughts, and says if she's still there be next Tuesday he will go back and he wants me to go with him. Dunno what I think of that. I talked him into taking two of our previous rescues and both turned out to be wonderful. But I also talked him into getting our first sheep, and they've been quite a mixed bag of something ever since.
Rug is completely woven, but still on loom. Probably tomorrow I can get it off there and do the hems on the ends.
