Mail problem found?

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Dec 032004
 

Just experienced the not-able-to-use-email problem again. Restarting the PC was the solution. But…after one send-receive action, the problem rises again. I think it has something to do with Norton Internet Security. That’s the only thing that changed recently.

Update: Guess I’m not the only one having problems with NIS2005 and mail: see this discussion.

Update (5/12/2004): The problem was NIS2005. Uninstalling it makes mail run smoothly again. But I don’t want to be surfing unprotected, so I’ll have to look into that a.s.a.p.

 Posted by at 20:16

Custom 404

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Dec 032004
 

I follow closely who and what visits this blog and other parts of my webserver. “What” being virusses and/or spyware. There are lots of 404 entries (page not found), because the requested page is something along the line of “c:/winnt/system32/cmd.exe”. Of course, that is not on my server.
Programs or browsers requesting such non-existing stuff, will be presented with this page. Real users can accidently request non-existing pages, but virusses SHOULD be treated differently.

So I was looking into creating a more sophisticated 404-page, one that actually detects what the requested page was, and in case of suspicion of a virus, send them an image of “the finger”, or something. Or a link to a good anti-virus program of course B)

Searching around the net for some info, I found this site. Dedicated to custom 404-pages. Cool.

 Posted by at 09:28