A very long time ago, when I was still playing World of Warcraft, I tried to order a key for World of Warcraft through Gamersloot.net. You can read about why that was a bad idea over here: Never order from Gamersloot.net. They took my money but never sent me the key.
A few weeks ago, I decided to check out where all the World of Warcraft Phishing attempts came from. I quit WoW quite a while ago, but I keep getting "notification" messages. I did a quick check of the headers and found out that the mails are being sent to the exact same mail address I used to register with Gamersloot.net.
I have a long standing policy to create specific mail addresses for every site I register on. This allows me to track back spam to the originating site and it worked well for Gamersloot.net.
So, besides the Goldselling activities and the "take-the-money-and-run" activities, they also do Phishing - trying to steal passwords from the people they rip off.
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Today, SQL Server 2008 express gave up on me. I installed it yesterday and it worked fine. Then I turned off my PC and when I turned it back on today, SQL Server Express wouldn't start. A quick look in the event log got me the following 2 errors.
FCB::Open failed: Could not open file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf for file number 2. OS error: 5(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 1815).
FCB::Open failed: Could not open file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf for file number 1. OS error: 5(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 1815).
Additionally, when trying to change settings from the SQL Server Configuration manager, I got the following error.
You have until 1% to log off. If you have not logged off at this time, your session will be disconnected and any open files or devices you've opened may loose data. [0x80070d59]
The solution was to enter the Services control panel, locate the SQL SERVER (EXPRESS) service, pick the Log On tab and check "Log on as Local System Account".
That got the job done. It's running now.
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