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A new technology could let a Trojan horse disguise itself as Internet Explorer and let hackers steal data from your PC by fooling firewalls into thinking it's a trusted Microsoft application. The program launches an invisible window in Internet Explorer to connect stealthily to a Web server through an anonymous proxy site. The Trojan horse exploits a standard feature in
Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 contain a new condition, which asks you to allow Windows to go and install future updates. This is basically a Microsoft back door. [Source The Register]
I found an Interesting IRC Search Engine.
I host this site on www.infinology.com and they have been pretty good up until about a week ago when all hell has broken loose and this site has been down more than it has been up. Hopefully we are all past these pains as I am not to pleased. The tracking service I use show the site being almost 100%
Due to my recent promotion I am going to be absolutely swamped over the next 6-8 weeks and we will be having individuals doing guest posting. I will stick my head in here when I can, but simply I have to devote these next 6 weeks to things at hand. I will not go into details and I am sure
This is a subject my wife raised recently. I would almost go for it except we have 3 lines that ring into the house 1 personal 1 business and 1 Fax so it is not practical. Plus my current home is virtually in a hole and the cell signal sucks so bad that I have to walk outside to my
As being reported at the register there continues to be problems in that no single virus protection package is 100% init's viral protection. This is pretty scary stuff if you ask me as I rely on one package currently and see hits on e-mail all the time from spammers. This is making me re-think our strategy on virus protection. [Source
A reader sent me a link to a article about how a computer user was able to recover a hosed windows boot sequence when his PC was setup with Linux and he was able to boot into the Linux OS and then mount the messed up Windows partition fix the issue and re-boot back into Linux. I learned this several
Tech TV has a great article on CD Burning well worth the read. I already had a couple of the titles but will be adding the ones they recommend. [Source TechTV]
Seems our service provider is having trouble keeping the site on-line. Thus no updates yet for today I will get some data up on the site tomorrow.
[Source News.Com] "In a statement released late Thursday, HP said it would not use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial copyright law, to pursue a loosely-organized team of researchers who demonstrated a bug in the company's Tru64 Unix operating system" Amazing these control freaks realized there mistake.
I am not going to go into much detail but you will notice my postings are down over the last several days. We all dream and have goals. I was able to reach one of my very long standing goals. I will go into detail on my personal weblog. It is so very significant that It is going to take
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