Support of avast! 4.8 is being discontinued, as we all know. However, on some (early Pentium 4 and older Pentium III) computers, particularly those that only run a specific task, we don’t want (or need) to upgrade to avast! 5 (which may slow down these older machines).
Finally, after some searching we found that the [...]
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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?
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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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