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INTERNET!~ I knew it was the SD card, I knew it! The Vodafone bot vector analysis I mentioned earlier this month was correct. It’s over.

The infection of microSD cards for the HTC Magic with the Mariposa information-stealing client and other strains of malware was first reported after Vodafone Spain supplied a malware-infected Android phone to a Panda worker earlier this month. [From the register]

Users get new microSD cards. Yay, but at what cost did buying the $2 phone really bring? 3,000+ phones infecting every windows machine that they come in contact with, snap. I guess that means more you have to start using Linux or scan your new phones with a Linux machine first. Hey there’s a new service, phone virus removal…

I can get paranoid about my “local” security quite often and I am a big fan of open source software. I try to go open before anything, really. I had used clamwin for awhile but was interested in a more “active” anti-virus tool because clamwin is only on demand. That wasn’t enough for me; I know it can’t protect you from getting viruses. I looked up open source alternatives that had more aggressive/constant memory scanning protection that wouldn’t stop when I clicked close. I found Moon Secure and I have been installing it everywhere. Moon Secure is an enterprise level active anti-virus scanner for Microsoft Windows, that currently employs clamav scan engine and virus database. The best part about it is that it’s free! The UI isn’t fancy but it’s worth a try if you are sick of controlling n0rton or the buggy resource hogs like mcafee.

This post is for Windows XP and Windows 2003.

If using Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0, you need to disable socket pooling. Here is the Microsoft article for disabling socket pooling in IIS 6.

This info discusses how to change (force) which IP addresses that IIS listens too. There are several scenarios that this would fall into. Most people generally only need to separate services and IIS listens to all IP addresses by default, IP so errors will occur if multiple web servers are using port 80 on the same IP. Example: Your server has multiple IP addresses and you need to run a new apache wordpress blog site on a separate dedicated IP address then your .net survey e-commerce IIS site to avoid any conflicts. (continue reading…)