Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The first thing I suspect when someone tells me that their PC is running slowly is that they may be dealing with adware or spyware. Typically, a computer infected with this type of malware will display other symptoms as well. Odd behavior such as pop-up ads, your internet home page ...
Posted in General BS, Hardware, Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Microsoft continued to release formerly closely-held application protocol documentation Tuesday, posting 14,000 pages of information for Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 at MSDN, a Web site for developers.
The protocol information released includes protocols that allow Exchange Server to communicate with Outlook and those used by Office ...
Posted in Coding, General BS, Internet, Privacy, Software, Windows | No Comments
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
A couple is accusing Google of diminishing the value of their property and causing them "mental" suffering" for including their recluse home in the Google Maps Street View project. The road leading up to their house is apparently labeled "private", something the Street View operator must've missed. We checked the ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
We've seen tons of banking trojans lately, but now we've run into something quite unique.
This new banking trojan was found today from a drive-by-download site. We've added detection for it as Win32.Pril.A
It not only infects the MBR of the machine, but also reflashes the boot code in the Flash BIOS, ...
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