clicking search page links,results in randomly redirected URL pagessvchost.exe and rundll32.exe used to load malware/spyware DLL
Today, for the second time in a month, I was asked to help remove a spyware/malware from a computer running Windows XP SP3. In both cases, the symptoms were identical. The user immediately noticed something was wrong because their [...]
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This past weekend, I upgraded from a Blackberry Curve 8320 to a Blackberry Bold 9700 and I noticed that there was a new Blackberry Enhanced GMAIL plug-in that gives you access to your GMAIL (and Google Apps Mail) account labels, as well as “mark as spam” and the ability to “star” a message. Great! However, [...]
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According to a Wall Street Journal report, our pilotless drones has been hacked into.
References:
http://cbs2.com/national/predator.drones.hacked.2.1375262.html
http://online.wsj.com/video/news-hub-was-us-intelligence-compromised/A0CDCC4B-0DB5-4C0E-A41C-FC2C16CA3BE7.html
I cannot believe the video feeds are NOT encrypted! In this day and age, what is the Department of Defense thinking?
var addthis_pub = ‘jchin’;
var addthis_brand = ‘Johnny Chin’;var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_header_background = ‘#2255CC’;var addthis_header_color = ‘#FFFFFF’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, [...]
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Avast tonight released their updated VPS 091203-0 signature file which has been causing a lot of grief to everyone around the world with false-positives for the trojan/worm Win32:Delf-MZG[Trj].
The only fix for now is to disable updates and go back to a previous signature file that is not “bad”.
Luckily I have another machine which has not [...]
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While enjoying Thanksgiving with family and friends this weekend, I was asked how to fix LimeWire? It would run but it kept saying it was “not connected”.
Well, a quick Internet search all turned up with suggestions on uninstalling and reinstalling LimeWire. This is great if you have the installer to the version [...]
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A very odd thing just happened to me this morning. While browsing on NewEgg in Firefox 3.5.2, I noticed that my browser slowed down. Using TCPview, I noticed that I had a lot of TCP connections opened to cpe-24-29-138-176.nyc.res.rr.com. That struck me as very odd. I thought I had spyware loaded [...]
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How to remove Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant Extension from Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5
I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and realized that Microsoft snuck in (spyware-like installation, without user acknowledgment) an extension to Firefox 3.0 that is not compatible with Firefox 3.5, that extension is the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.0.
Microsoft has released a newer [...]
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I came across this site on my friend’s blog.
Blind Search – the search engine taste test
You should give it a try. It may be interesting to see how branding affects perceived search engine results.
NOTE: the programmer is working for Microsoft, but claims this side project has nothing to do with Microsoft. Hmmm… [...]
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Adblock Plus add-on for Mozilla Firefox … I know this has been around for a few years. I’ve been meaning to install it but never got it done. Tonight, my friend, John Wong, started to talking about it so I finally installed it. Works nice.
Then goto http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions and add the following lists [...]
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I just came across this from Google. The Google Wave is awesome! At lease from their YouTube video from their developers conference.
Watch this 80 minute video. It is worth every minute of it. It blows your mind as to what Google is doing. Top it off, they are [...]
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