staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2003-12-28

decibel [28-Dec-2003 @ 12:44]

Filed under: Uncategorized — decibel @ 12:44 +00:00

:: 28-Dec-2003 12:44 GMT (Sunday) ::

OK, I’ve gotten as tired of waiting for retires to be tested as everyone else
has, so I’m just going to enable it. I highly doubt there will be any problems,
but I do have a backup of all the important tables as of a few minutes ago,
just in case.

You might want to avoid editing anything for the next day or two, just in case
we uncover any issues and have to revert to the backup.

2003-12-15

sdodson [15-Dec-2003 @ 21:15]

Filed under: Uncategorized — sdodson @ 21:15 +00:00

:: 15-Dec-2003 21:15 GMT (Monday) ::

Just an update on the status of the problems we’ve had with AV vendors lately.

McAfee has clarified the wording during detection and the entry on their site
to clearly state that distributed.net client is simply a piece of software
that has in the past been installed on computers through use of trojans. They
explain how to identify if the software was legitimately installed. They also
mention that the option to detect “possibly unwanted” applications is not on by
default.

Norton has also removed the signatures that were identifying dnetc.com as a
trojan.

2003-12-06

bovine [06-Dec-2003 @ 22:49]

Filed under: Uncategorized — bovine @ 22:49 +00:00

:: 06-Dec-2003 22:49 GMT (Saturday) ::

Many new clients that were previously on the pre-release page are now
available on the official download page. Please see the update page
to see the list of updated platforms:
http://www1.distributed.net/download/updates.php

Also some personal proxies that were previously on the pre-release
page are now available on the official proxy release page:
http://www.distributed.net/download/proxies.php

2003-12-05

sdodson [05-Dec-2003 @ 10:36]

Filed under: Uncategorized — sdodson @ 10:36 +00:00

:: 05-Dec-2003 10:36 GMT (Friday) ::

It’s been brought to our attention that now McAfee is also detecting
our software as a “possible unwanted program”. We’ve contacted McAfee
requesting that they look into it and should have this resolved shortly.

We’ve also made progress on having Symantec remove us from their
definitions and it looks like the next set of definitions released
next Wednesday should have the signature for dnetc.com removed.

I’d like to thank Jonathan and Ben Newman for their assistance as well
as the support staff at McAfee.