Latest SpoofStick coverage and version

SpoofStick continues to make a mark on the net.  The latest mentions are from Network World, the Kansas City Star, the St. Petersburg Times (the one in Florida, not Russia, but see below) and the Newark Star Ledger.  PC World contributing editor Steve Bass gave SpoofStick a good mention in his June 2nd newsletter, but it’s not on-line yet.  Steve called me a “forthright” guy, which will have to do until I can upgrade my title to at least “honorable” by getting elected mayor of something.

International mentions of SpoofStick include IT Union in Russian and ITP Technology in Arabic.  I can’t read the Arabic article, but it has this screenshot of SpoofStick looking at the "it's only a flesh wound" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  I don’t find this strange at all.

We also released a minor upgrade to the IE version of SpoofStick today.  Version 1.01 has the following improvements:

• The installer is signed by an official CoreStreet digital certificate.  This is one of those eat-our-own-dogfood type of features since we like to promote certificate use.
  
• There is a new option in the configuration menu that lets you display the whole hostname of a site, rather than just the domain name.
  
• The installer will now refuse to install on an operating system earlier than Win2k.  I expect this to take care of most of our support requests.  We’ll be adding Windows 95, 98 and ME support in an upcoming release.
  
• SpoofStick will now pop up a warning (often more than one) if it encounters a URL trying to take advantage of the ‘@’ flaw found in unpatched versions of IE.  Since this is a well known (and corrected) Microsoft bug, SpoofStick will only issue a warning and reminder to install the latest IE patch.
  

As always, you can get the latest version of SpoofStick at the CoreStreet SpoofStick home page.

Finally, I have made a ‘SpoofStick’ category on Vastly Important Notes, so you can see all the posts about SpoofStick on one page.  Some of you have made snide insinuations about SpoofStick elbowing out all other topics on this blog (I’m looking at you, “gavin”), so I’d like to direct your attention to the diverse bounty of vastly important content in the archives.