Silicon Shecky

Well, it seems that another problem with Active X Video has gone Zero Day. Drive by (click by?) attacks are now exploiting the hole in the MS972890 advisory. This only affects IE, and only XP and 2003, so yes it is rather limited, but XP and 2003 are still very prevalent in the world.

The advisory does have a link on how to work around the vulnerability with a kill switch setting on the DLL file. Just shows another reason why I would not use IE if the web site does not require it.

You know, I love my job. I love being able to work on things and learn new thoughts and ideas as I work. It is so fulfilling to see a project finished and working right. The only problem is they never are really finished.

So after the big file migration, and the corrections to the AD Users/OUs/Groups was down to a tweak here or there, I decided to see if I could figure out why some things with Exchange and DNS seemed to be so damn slow. They say that curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought him back, well we shall see how this ends.

Between finding that AD/DNS integration was set to a legacy standard, even though we use Server 2003, to find that we had only 1 Global Catalog, even though we have 5 DCs 4 of them at other sites, only one DC as a Global Catalog. Replication for AD was set to 4 hours, and all other sorts of small errors in the DNS server have been found. Its the sort of stuff that should have been thought through when the original migration from 2000 to 2003 happened.

Well, at least its keeping me busy, and who knows when any of this stuff will come in handy, but I know it will at some point.