Conficker Update – It’s Doing Something

Network Jew — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:04:31 +0000

Well, April 1st came and went without the Internet exploding. All seemed calm on the waters until today when, apparently, infected Conficker PC’s began downloading new encrypted binaries and checking to see if various websites were up.

According to Trend Micro’s summary:

Two things can be summed up from the events that transpired:

1. As expected, the P2P communications of the Downad/Conficker botnet may have just been used to serve an update, and not via HTTP. The Conficker/Downad P2P communications is now running in full swing!
2. Conficker-Waledac connection? Possible, but we still have to dig deeper into this…

Here’s a link to more information from Trend Micro

Here’s a link to the conficker “eye test” – it’ll let you know if your machine is infected or not.

http://www.talkbiz.com/confickertest/

Windows Mobile 6.5 Hands-On Video

Network Jew — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:35:45 +0000

Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 6.5 at the MWC this weekend. It looks like they’ve take a good look at the iPhone and Android and put in some nice features. Most of the enhancements appear to be in Internet Explorer and various touch-related enhancements in the UI. Overall it looks polished and modern. The new Internet Explorer looks slick, and it appears from the video below that it supports Flash! The Lock Screen interface actually reminds me quite a bit of the updated Home Screen in Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone like on the BlackJack II. No word yet, apparently on what the 6.5 smartphone version of WinMo will look like.

Windows Mobile 6.5 Running on HTC from Jesus Diaz on Vimeo.

Here’s what the home screen looks like on the BlackJack II.

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Conficker Update – It’s Doing Something

Windows Mobile 6.5 Hands-On Video