A "very unfortunate coincidence" when updating virus signatures and scanner software caused the free ClamWin (ClamAV for Windows) virus scanner to run amok and move large numbers of files into quarantine on Windows systems. On the ClamWin forum, various users reported that 25,000 files, including system files, were moved into quarantine as a result – more or less the entire system.

The flaw has reportedly been fixed, but some users are struggling to restore their systems. The ClamWin developers have produced a batch file that allows the files to be restored to their original locations, but the batch file uses the information stored in the ClamScanLog.text file to do so – and the log file has a size limit of 1 MByte. For some users, this potentially means that numerous file paths won't be listed, so they will have to manually restore the files to their original locations.

Do you remember Worcester sauce twiglets? they were only around for a short while and then vanished off the face of the planet many years ago never to be seen again.

It turns out they were a special promotion that Jacobs obviously decided was not very popular. Well some of us disagree, I loved those things, which is guaranteed to seal their fate as every snack I have found that I loved has been discontinued.

However it appears they have made a comeback back in July, which is a surprise as I haven't seen them, but I'll be off to hunt them down tomorrow.

Here is a response someone got back form Jacobs.

Thanks for your email. These (Tangy And Worcestershire Sauce flavoured Twiglets) are available now from Asda, they will be available from July 1st, at Morrison's and Waitrose and from 19th September they will be available from Tesco.

Unfortunately I can't say whether they will be available at your local store as we deliver to the central warehouses of these stores however, if you are unable to find them then please find below the Head Office numbers who should be able to advise:

Asda: 0500 100055
Tesco: 0800 50 5555
Morrison's: 0845 611 5000
Waitrose: 0800 188884

I hope you enjoy them!

Best regards
Anna Swalwell
Consumer Services Dept.

I have just migrated a client site from CF to their own dedicated VPS running Railo on Apache Tomcat.

One of the issues that arose as a result is that when visiting their site auctionnews.co.uk an automatic 302 redirect occurred redirecting to auctionnews.co.uk/default.cfm which is the default page for the site.

Now I knew this was not IIS so it had to be Apache Tomcat causing it, after Googling I found numerous other people with this issue but no solution. The only suggestions I found seemed madly over the top, like re-compiling the Tomcat source with new directives to creating a custom servlet.

I then just took a step back and thought there must be a simple solution, and remembered that Tomcat has its own set of default files and wondered if this might have something to do with it. I checked the web.xml and of course default.cfm was not in the list as this is not a common default file, so I surmised that Tomcat must be getting the default filename sent to it from IIS and was thus redirecting to it, so perhaps simply adding default.cfm to the <welcome-file-list> might resolve the issue.

Eureka I was right, adding <welcome-file>default.cfm</welcome-file> to the m<welcome-file-list> resolved the issue and no more redirects.

So to summarise, if your default document is only set on the webserver it gets passed to Tomcat which does a redirect. If the default document is specified in Tomcat's <welcome-file-list> it will simply forward to that document with no redirect.

Considering the lack of Google results on this topic hopefully this simple solution might stop others tearing their hair out

I just noticed today that my windows updates were failing with the above error, I groaned of course as windows update issues are usually a royal pain in the ass to trouble shoot.

I checked my event log and also found this error.

The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147024891

I then checked under services and found that that the "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" was stopped and would not start.

A bit of googling told me that windows update relies on BITS to work. I found all kinds of suggestions and fixes, none of which worked. After a bit of probing how windows updates works I eventually discovered that the culprit was the downloader folder "C:\ProgramData\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader".

Simply deleting this folder allowed BITS to start and windows update to run.

This is on windows 7, on windows xp I believe this folder is inside "c:\documents and settings" somewhere.

I hope this helps a few other who may have this issue.

As most of you know, I have been running cfmldeveloper.com (formerly cfdeveloper.co.uk) for neigh on 10 years now, yet despite the fact that it has been going for so long surprisingly a lot of people don't know about it or indeed many other ColdFusion resources or communities.

One of the topics you will see regularly in forums, lists etc is people bemoaning how Adobe don't do enough to promote ColdFusion, and suppose I can agree up to a point, although I don't claim to know what exactly they do not do not do to promote CF. I can however say that I don't personally see ColdFusion mentioned or promoted very often in generic web development communities, websites or magazines, which if you think about it is quite odd as other Adobe products such as Flash and dreamweaver will get constant attention. You would think seeing as these products integrated best with ColdFusion that it would get preference over PHP, but no.

One might therefore assume that Adobe and others therefore don't seem to do anything to promote ColdFusion outside the already existing ColdFusion user base and communities, which seems a bit odd as what is the point in promoting ColdFusion to people who already use it?

Perhaps one idea might be for Adobe do not attend (non CF) developer conferences and promote CF or work with magazines to publish articles and have their community managers spend time on other web developer sites like Sitepoint.com or  internet.com promoting CF. So there is a suggestion or two for anyone looking to do a bit of promotion, get out there and write a few articles.

(nb: I have since been informed by Matt Gifford that there are some CF articles being published in mags as he in facts writes them himself. However these are quite few in the grand scale of things and I have not personally seen them.)

This is one area where Railo Technologies seem to have got it right, as this is exactly what they have been doing, pushing Railo at non CF events.I know some people at Adobe are not big fans of Railo and this may rub them up the wrong way, but in my view Railo can only be good for the community and growing the existing user base, which is also good for Adobe and ColdFusion surely?. While Railo may rule the open source roost, and be perfect for shared hosting, Adobe has never been really been targeting those markets, they only really target enterprise customers, and those people looking for enterprise solutions are still likely to choose ColdFusion as it still has many advantages feature wise over Railo plus the support of a large well known and successful corporation behind it and well established community with a ton of useful support documentation that Railo can only dream of right now. Plus the self contained installer and effortless deployment of new sites is also a big plus for many, if only they could do away with the need of the virtual directories it would be perfect.

So while Railo may be reeling in the new users with the open source bait,  Adobe can still reap the rewards with enterprise conversions that may otherwise never have even considered CFML, a fact perhaps the Railo haters may have overlooked. After 10 years running cfmldeveloper.com I certainly feel I have done my bit :-)

Of course Adobe are free to do as they wish marketing wise, and certainly no-one can say they have done a bad job with CF that's why we all love it and there is certainly no shortage of resources if you know where to find them. So perhaps those doing the moaning should also pull their fingers and get out there and spread the word a bit if it bothers them so much.

Spreading the word however can be more difficult than one might expect as I discovered recently when I tried to do just that. I decided to go and signup on several other generic communities/sites and do a bit of ColdFusion promotion and answer a few questions only to be met with what I felt a very sour anti-community attitude over at sitepoint.com. It seems you are not allowed to post links out to or promote any other community or forum. I can understand the need for anti spammer/scammer measures, but to treat other communities in the same wasy seems a bit OTT to me. So clealry you need to be quite subtle your promotions and not quite so blatent as I was.