It is unclear when and how it started, but for about a week or two I had been annoyed by Windows Live Messenger popping up on my Windows Mobile 6 phone every time I unlocked it. While all I had to do is press the Cancel button to make it go away, such a small [...]

This article is no longer relevant. In Visual Studio 2008 SP1, setup projects allow you to select the ‘User’s Application Data Folder’ as a deployment target. This is where any SDF files and other application data and content should go. The ‘Common Application Data Folder’ is no longer accessible for write operations in Windows 7 [...]

It is finally ready – the new and improved TripsNMiles, pod consulting’s free mileage tracker for the Windows Mobile platform.

Major web sites like Yahoo.com and Boston.com are infecting thousands, if not hundred thousands of computers with trojans, back doors, and other viruses, through some of their ad service providers. When will the people in charge of these web sites wake up and start screening the ads that they are serving?   For the 2nd [...]

Due to a sudden spike in traffic on my blog, I spent more time than usual with Web Analytics tools lately. There is quite  a discrepancy between the numbers that Awstats reports and what Google Analytics and Woopra think. Awstats is a tool that most low-cost hosting providers include in their service offering. This post is meant [...]

I host this blog and a few other personal sites at WebHostingBuzz (WHB), all on Linux. I host the site for the Austrian-American club at Godaddy.com (ASP). Unfortunately, I host the mailing list for the Austrian-American club at WHB as well, requiring frequent emails sent from one domain to the other. We are paying Godaddy for [...]

I am pretty sure I caught the Mebroot root kit last night, or some variant, and potentially some other things, too. I was working when all of a sudden the machine rebooted, without a blue screen. It did an orderly shut-down and reboot (XP Pro SP III). I did not allow XP to boot back [...]