I think it’s about time to clean out this mailbox (no, it’s not mine):
65,944 unread items is a bit excessive, don’t you think?
Crazy Screen Shots – Garbage Hard Drives
This is another odd screen shot – looks like a corrupted external drive:
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It reminds me of something I saw a while back:
Gotta love ‘plug-and-pray’. And while we’re sharing screen shots, here are a couple more:
WatchGuard screen pop-up goof…
Ye old MySQL server…
The file with no name violation…
Crazy Screen Shots – Red or Blue Pill?
Not sure if I should click OK or Cancel? 😉
Source: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9
(Scott said, “Hit OK, it’s fun”)
Crazy Screen Shots – 534,000 GB
Spotted on a server today: 
That’s 522 TB, for those of you playing the home game.
Props to Bo Bracey for the screen shot. I asked him how big that hard drive really is, and his response was: 
That reminds me of this classic TechTV video, circa 2001:
The funny thing is that today no tech show would be caught dead using a real live chalkboard to explain something.
Crazy Screen Shots – Two D: Volumes Listed
Apparently Disk 0 is having a bad day (or a split personality) 
Two partitions on Disk 0 both show as drive letter “D:”
Apparently this happens when trying to extend a partition. Props to Cory for this screen shot.
Seattle – Funny Pool Picture
I’m in Seattle this week for some SBS 2008 training and for SMB Nation, and I just checked into my hotel in Issaquah. As usual, I popped onto Microsoft Virtual Earth to see what’s around here. Imagine my surprise when I saw this swimming pool:
Yep, the swimming pool is in the shape of a fish, and the baby pool is a baby fish, of course this and other pools have the best hayward pool pump to be able to stay clean. Pretty cute for a Holiday Inn!
Crazy Screen Shots – Rotary Girder
One of our techs was on-site and snapped this pic of a poorly placed I-beam in front of the entrance to the server room.
And yes, that’s permanent. Reminds me of Tommy Boy:
Windows Live Messenger Spam
This must be the week of crazy screen shots.
My first IM spam from MSN Messenger:
No thanks!
Spyware – Antivirus XP 2008
Since some of my blog readers are end-users, and not IT pros, I wanted to pass along the following info.
The hot malware infecting machines lately seems to be "Antivirus XP 2008".
It starts simply enough:
(I especially like the typo of "aviailable" – nice).
The unsuspecting user clicks on the ‘e-card’ hyperlink, runs the download, and the next thing you know, you’ve got full-blown chaos on your hands:
Folks – I know that looks legit, but it’s not. Until you downloaded that "e-card" your computer wasn’t infected. You can tell by the colored AVG icon in the system tray (circled in green).
Notice how quickly it spreads (circled in red). It’s also in 4 places in the Start Menu, not shown in the picture. Also notice the ‘Vista style’ fake close button at the top of the window – this is on an XP machine. And there are apparently 3 windows popped-up, but there is only one program on the task bar for "Antivirus XP 2008". All stuff to look for.
In case you get bit, here’s a link for removal instructions for Antivirus XP 2008:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/remove-antivirus-xp-2008
Crazy Screen Shots – How Big is Your Monitor
This screen shot comes courtesy of Cory Rammer:
OS: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with an S3 ViRGE DX/GX.
That equates to a grid of 640×480 monitors 15 wide x 20 tall (300 of them). That’s a lot of bling for a BDC. Actual setup is a single 800×600 monitor. 🙂