If you use Facebook, be warned! There is a ‘virus’ floating around it. You can’t get infected by browsing, it is sent as a message within facebook. The message will come from one of your friends (who is already infected), and it will have a message along the lines of;

• “Your ass looks not bad in this video”
• “Who and when made this video of you?!!!”
• “Nudity makes you beautiful. Who made this video?You look disgusting this video!

There will also be a link in the message that will appear to be taking you to youtube, but it will take you to a fake youtube page that will  tell you a flash update is required. When you follow the link, it will infect your PC with the virus/worm. At point of writing this, not all the anti-virus packages are picking this up.

As always, the safest thing to do is not click a link from a message that looks ‘odd’. If your not sure, Google it! Then if your still not sure, just don’t open it.

I’ve been waiting (patiently) for 6.1 for a while now, and today I looked on www.my-xda.com (see as they didn’t Email as requested), and there it was the download for my XDA Stella. Read more

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Sorry, sorry, sorry… It’s been ages since I’ve posted, I’ve been really busy trying to get my business up and running, not an excuse! Well OK it, but it’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
But to show I really and sorry, here is a list of some free software I’ve used in the past and still use today…

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I had a problem at work recently, some appointments being sent to people via meeting requests were appearing in the Outlook diary but not on the handheld device. It took a while but eventually…

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So I decided I wanted my XDA Exec to ActiveSync over 3G, and I wanted Push email. It was fairly straight forward. But my advice to anyone trying this is to read up on their equipment and make some decisions before you start, a good example of this is your choice of certificate. 

I’ve got my 2nd domain controller on the network, all good! Just got to deliver it to it’s new location (that’s next week).
So i decided to move on to getting myself (and my directors of course) access to out information while on the move. Exchange 2003 SP2 has mobile features built in. The 1st thing I looked at was getting Activesync to work over 802.11, GPRS, and 3G. I had done this before but that was a test and I didn’t have any encryption then. I now have my certificate server installed and assigned a certificate to my exchange server. After turning on the ‘enable user initiated synchronisation” in exchange I started a synchronise from my PDA very soon after I got an error code.

The message basically said it didn’t like my certificate, after about three quarters of an hour of head scratching I realised I had the wrong name on the certificate, after correcting this I tried again, only to get another one. This one is because I choose to use a self signed certificate and not opt for a 3rd party. Realising this I exported the certificate from the exchange server and installed it to my laptop. It is worth pointing out here that I read a few articles from MS on this and found that some wireless operators disable the option to install self signed certificates to your mobile device. It is worth checking, although MS do have a program to get around this called smartphoneaddcert.exe. Have a look here for more info http://support.microsoft.com/?id=841060

After installing my certificate (I didn’t need the tool) I tried ActiveSync and my PDA was updated!

Feeling a sense of god like power now I felt it time to conquer Push email. Once I had the certificate installed this was actually very straight forward. All I had to do was once again enable it within exchange inside mobile messaging. Turn on push email on the device and hey presto! Emails were getting to my device from hotmail  between 40secs – 1minute.

Also while I was tinkering with Exchange’s many settings I stumbled across the connection filtering tab on the properties page of message delivery. This will let exchange query a real time black list (list of know spammers and open relays) when it receives an email and if the sender is on the list, the email is rejected. The list I chose was http://www.spamhaus.org/

Have a look, as it’s not just a spam filter, but it will also encourage genuine companies with open relays to stop them.

So that is pretty much the story of my exchange upgrade and new DC, I will take a step back from the server side for my next post, I have some Office stuff I will be posting.

Arron