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Postcard Virus Sets Up IRC Botnet

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http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/05/29/the-anatomy-of-a-virus/

Looks like another yet another botnet is building up from a trojan being sent around as “Postcard.exe”. I followed the botnet to a new channel, and they have almost 450 clients there. Most of those seem to be clients fired off from the trojan. Hopefully, the Undernet admins can stop this one for now. Yes, I know that another one will pop right up, but since this particular beast is coded to join certain channels, maybe it will give helpless attachment-clickers a little bit of a break.

Performancing

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I was reading an article over at Lifehacker about different blogging clients, and I ran into one I remember seeing a while back, “Performancing”.  Performancing is an extension for Firefox, and lets the user choose between WYSIWYG and HTML editing of posts.  I also noticed that Performancing also seems to be a company that provides blog metrics.  The stats seem to be able to show posts, comments, views, and a whole slew of other information.  I have signed up to try out this service over at http://performancing.com/ and hopefully I will see some nice statistics soon.  And, I can see how their editor works for me.

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TV Schedules Made Easy

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EvokeTV Dev Blog: hCalendar, iCal, 30Boxes, and you

I have been using 30Boxes (excellent online calendar) and EvokeTV for a while now. I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, so it is nice to have a simple television listing web app that quickly shows listings and details about shows. It is also very easy to mark shows as favorites, rate them, etc. The shows that I actually watch are accessible in a nice RSS feed now, which can easily be subscribed to in 30Boxes.

Now, after I pick the shows I like using Evoke, I can just go to 30Boxes and they show up in my schedule. Now if there was a way for subscribed events to show up in the RSS or ICS files to allow subscription from a local application/PDA/etc, it would be perfect. If there is already a way to do that, let me know in the comments!