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According to Computer Associates it's just a variant of the original CodeRed, CodeRedv3. They've got all the info on it listed here. It matches the hits I'm getting on my site, I don't know about everybody else.

If a company pulls crap like this, and it pisses you off... just don't use their software. There's a good, functional, FREE virus scanner at antivirus.cai.com. It seems to detect everything Norton does, and even has a "live update" feature. Grab it while it's still there.

It's all good having these multiple technologies, but being able to be caught is always risky. Lets face it, at some stage some script kiddies will be sharing their c00L war3z d00d, and it's all goind to go to crap - and especially so if there's even a hint of a financial transaction.

The chaps at iMesh (http://www.imesh.com/) are trying to do something a bit more distributed. I don't think it's quite there yet, but it's a start. I guess it means that iMesh themselves aren't going to have to purchase a bulk order of KY in the near future, but their luzers might.

Winblows clients only, unfortunately, so I'd also recommend a trip to http://antivirus.cai.com/ for the latest InnoculatePE.

I have kind of a love/hate relationship with VRML - you can do some pretty incredible stuff with it, but the syntax is archane, and scripting support varies widly between browsers.

A little known feature of VRML97 is the inclusion of the EAI (External Authoring Interface), which lets you tie in Java objects (or C++, in some browsers), and use the objects to dynamically affect the environment. Some projects actually only have a really simple stub .wrl file, and then build the rest of the stuff from a database on the back end, bypassing the syntax difficulties.

Unfortunatly, the main reason that EAI hasn't revolutionized VRML and made it widely used is that not all browsers support it, and levels of compliance varies between the ones that do. Sound familiar (HTML, Java Applets, etc...)?

The next revision of VRML shows a lot of promise -it's an XML-based language called X3D (Yeah, I know, another damn X* acronym). Hopefully, by eliminating the need for specialized parsers, the browser writers will be able to concentrate more on spec compliance, rendering speed/quality, and cross-platform availability.

Right now, the best VRML97 browsers are Cosmo Player and ParallelGraphic's Cortona, but neither have Linux versions available (old versions of Cosmo are available for SGI). The spec for VRML97 and X3D are availble, and are surpisingly readable.


Scott Severtson
Applications Developer

Unicenter TNG ?

Jack me in...

Actually, I DO beleive that a lot of cheesy SciFi (like "Tom Corbet! Space Cadet!", Buck Rogers, etc) of the 50's were very instrumental in growing the public momentum towards the US space program in the 60's, altho it was a combination of many things incl. the cold war/sputnik/space race, Werner Von Braun (also SciFi influenced), commitment by President and congress, etc, etc...

Given that the ArsDigita Community System is so heavily database-driven, I was wondering what tools you use for data modeling and schema management.

What is your opinion of modeling tools like Sybase's PowerDesigner and Platinum's ERwin? What kinds of tools do you think are necessary to facilitate the development of highly portable, vender independent database designs? Finally, what is your opinion of UML and to what extent does ArsDigita use it?

"The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'

Au contraire Mon capitan! (pardon me =)
Pattern recognition has already reached a significant level of compexity but, what is not public at this moment is an integrated personality. A Machine Intelligence might even exist today, if it does you definately don't know about it and neither do I. To know of such a thing would very logically be a death warrent or at least permanent house arrest.
I think therefore I am. The prefrontal cortex is one of Gödel's islands of consistancy, reverse-engineering of that structure is well under way on many fronts: here, here, here and too many other places to mention. Gaming AI doesn't have a trillionish dollar distributed budget behind it simply because games don't generate that kind of revenue. Besides this hardware is woefully inadequate, a few very fast processor versus my billions of slow ones. I simply have more chances to stumble across something.
Hmm. So a compressed dictionary is the key to creating a true intelligence? Well! Step right over to those fine folks at Cyc who have been doing just that! To bad the darn thing is a lot more brittle than you or I. Although I really like the semantics they're developing - someday it could make good baby food for the real thing. I've spent many sleepless nights researching this field and the only thing I've learned is that there are a whole lot of distractions. The proof of that lies in the fact that HAL didn't come online on schedule.

The Night Angel

Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens, and, last but not least, a single !

My Win98 machine is down! I wonder why? :-)

http://www.cai.com/press/1999/12 /trojankill.htm

The same error gets innoculan anti-virus as well according to M$ tech bulletin Q244652.

First i'm not suprise it the CAworld show this week.
Unicenter is a package of software to monitor machines from a single "console". They have basicaly two component :
1) AT technologie with which you'll try to monitor your machines - It can look on your file systems processes Memory usage, log files etc ... it works on a broad variety of platforms : but the most suported ones are : WinNT, Aix, HpUx and Solaris, but you'll find versions of some parts of the products for synix, SCO etc ...)
2)EM : with which you can act on message that are send from the ganet to the console. manage some tapes and use the workload (a scheduler). tahta part is very tricky and goes low level on the system on which it runs. it is not has widely suported has the AT stuff.
CA products are young and unmature - so installing and configuring them IS tricky (look at the number of patches available here. Unicenter comes with many options some which are great asome which sucks ....

Could you send me an e-mail at my work address? I started at CA recently; I'll try to find out for you.

Jeff

I still believe that press release was the reason why one of the companies I do contract work for finally saw the light, and asked me to help them migrate their dedicated network monitoring boxes to Linux... And since several large telcos use those boxes, Linux will go unnoticed in the backdoor at the data centers of some pretty big companies :-)

Also CocoBase Enterprise Jasmine may be of interest.