Continued from How This Savvy Techie Downloaded His First Virus

I got lucky. Others have had direct attacks on their sites after a trojan is installed which sniffs their passwords. I’ve got two adware programs which are a nusiance, but right now they’re isolated and cannot get out. I’ll kill them later today as I have time, and find a program that works on them better than the ones I’ve already owned.

Read the rest of this entry »

Why is the SEC interested in Adobe’s Corporate Authenticity and RoboHelp?

In the same manner as Ikea’s technical writing is nearly wordless I’m just going to post this picture of the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC) accessing my site’s Is RoboHelp Dead… Again?!? article and the Corporate Authenticity category this week and let the audience decide its importance.

Talk amongst yourselves…

Vivek Jain, [Group Product Manager] I’m sure it’s nothing to be worried about. The SEC doesn’t have jurisdiction in Bangalore, India.

Is this for real?!? Afraid so…

If anyone wants it I’ll email the .xps directly to you if you feel the need to validate this. I think I have a server log also. (unsure if it included January in my December one). By the way, checking my site today, I found overlooked someone else logging on from a government web site in Washington. I’ll keep that to myself for the moment.

PS: According to my stats I was crunching before that virus hit my system the Is RoboHelp Dead… Again?!? article is the top linked-to article of 2007.

Just make the online Microsoft Download Center out of Silverlight. They have to download it to get their Product updates…

Oen blog, Beyond the Curtains states in its article MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com:

It’s a desperate move, there’s no doubt about it. While Microsoft will no doubt be making an alternative HTML interface available for a mixture of legal and practical purposes, switching Microsoft.com over to Silverlight is a sure-fire way to get that attention…. and depending on how it’s both marketed and carried out, it could be what it takes to make developers start taking Silverlight seriously.

I’ve long looked into Corporate Authenticity, and you never know who your prose might influence. I don’t think I could have said this any better: Marshall Kirkpatrick » When a Blogger Criticizes Your Company…

The best thing that companies can do in response to bloggers who have done their reputation harm is to take the bloggers’ complaints as seriously as is appropriate.

Readers will determine the validity of blogger criticism for themselves, but if the criticism is valid then there’s no hiding from it any more.

It’s best to be publicly responsive, on the critical blogs and on a blog of your own if you’re that concerned about it.

You may need to change your practices, just like you’d have to if a journalist in the traditional press criticized you in a way that you take seriously.

How Cluetrain of Marshall.