Rantings, mostly…

I need a replacement for my current anti-virus software.

Here I am editing some JavaScript files for inclusion in an another AJAX application and I accidentally rename them *.txt.js.

Next thing I know I cannot right-click and open in my standard editor!

After damn near a minute an anti-virus warning from AVG pops up.

You are kidding me right?  This day and age and all this miraculous heuristic scanning, virtual sandbox technology and I get a false-positive from a damned plain ASCII text file.

Now I could see if it was named *.txt.vbs or if I had somehow inadvertently ran it through the Windows Script Host.

Not to mention, JavaScript (along with any variation of ECMAScript) cannot interact with a system to such an extent as to cause serious damage.  Well, let me rephrase that it can cause damage if you are a moron!

HTAs are susceptible to this type of attack or running malicious code directly via a browser (or in an e-mail application on Windows systems).

Other than that what I am going to do fall prey to a vicious XSS attack on my desktop?

It figures though right as I type this I run across this article:

http://www.nist.org/news.php?extend.175

Dammit.  Anyway…

I am not likely to be chased down by a “JavaScript Spider” anytime soon…

OK, not really, but there has been some recent legislation regarding a smoking ban in Hardin County.

Starting December 1st it is now illegal to smoke in or around public places.  Alright!

You can read more at the local newspaper here:

http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/articles/2006/11/24/news/kews27.txt

It requires a no verification registration so either do that or just use “kj” as your sign-in and password.  I am so naughty.

Actually it is retarded to have to sign in to something that is entirely free.

OK, seriously… the website I talked about below has some serious issues.  I am serious, just check out:

http://www.euskaltel.es/

…and see.  Firstly, it depends on JavaScript to load another document.  Once at *that* document you are presented with a dependence on a script that checks for a cookie.  However, its main function is not defined!  It even references a ‘cookie.js’ file that is completely empty.

If you do a little source digging you see that the only places it *would* redirect you to are:

home.jsp
home_ppal.jsp
idioma.jsp

…all of which result in:

http://www.euskaltel.es/itvweb/error.htm

Now, here is the hilarious (retarded?) twist.  Just view the source of the previous URL and notice the entire page is created with a method of the document object in JavaScript (document.write() for those who wonder).

*sigh*

If life is a contented dream I wish someone would wake me the hell up.

I was recently (actually like two minutes ago) playing around with the host active script at No-IP.com.  I thought that the script didn’t do any actual verification of the host.

I input ‘roar.no-ip.org’.  You know, “I am lion hear me roar” and all that jazz?

Well, it turns out that it resolves to 85.86.207.144.  I check it out and it leads to Joomla via some company called “SkyWeb”.  It also appears to be in Spanish.  I guess primarily because a company in Spain runs it via Euskaltel.es.  Which by the way sucks because of its independence on JavaScript to load.

What confuses me is that the official Joomla website is at Joomla.org and resolves to 72.9.243.251.

What does this tell me?  Primarily that I have too much time on my hands.

I went to Steak ‘N Shake two nights ago and what do you know, pigs *love* it.

Here it was at 3:30AM and five cruisers were at the local Steak ‘N Shake.  Oh, and then another pulled in as I pulled out.  I could not help but think what poor misunderstood “thug” could be getting pounded into the pavement at that moment.

As I got my large fry and regular onion ring I thought one last thing… boy I sure am inebriated.

Bastard cops.