Sunday, September 28, 2008

Google Chrome vs Corporate security

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)

Yes, my work Vista laptop has it's share of problems... many of them seem to be cause by either the Pointsec or the enforced use of "Symantec Endpoint Protection". When I'm on my home network, I can't even ssh/telnet to my NAS.

Anyway, this post is about it refusing to run Google Chrome... luckily Google search isn't firewalled, and it turned up the solution below -

http://palaniraja.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome-the-application-failed-to-initialize-properly-0xc0000005/

Small pleasures

Would you believe the "CONNECT mail.agc.idv.tw:25 HTTP/1.0" finally stopped being logged on Sept 05 :)

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Spammers

Everybody hates spammers... at least I do, and with a passion. Any small form of revenge I find greatly satisfying. In the logs of my lighthttp server, I see this -

118.168.140.161 - - [31/Aug/2008:09:39:02 +0100] "CONNECT mail.agc.idv.tw:25 HTTP/1.0" 501 357 "-" "-"

every two hours. I guess it's some form of hunt for open SMTP relays... but seriously, if they've tried every two hours for a month (hopefully without success), isn't it time to give up?

I feel like writing a little server that fakes the behaviour of an SMTP server, and wastes some of their time and bandwidth... but I know it would waste more of my time than theirs... it seems we simply can't win against these vermin.