IBIZA Trojan Infects via Internet Explorer
A pretty nasty Trojan is infecting users machines that are running Internet Explorer. With no patch in place from Microsoft the only choice you have is to run a different browser. [Lockergnome]
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February 2004
92 posts
Blogstreet
Claiming our Weblog for the Blogstreet site.
Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data
If your paranoid that documents that you publish in Word will contain embedded data to identify you then you need to visit Microsoft's site and download this patch that removed the embedded data that Office 2003/XP leave behind. [Microsoft] Thanks for the link to Lockergnome
Mars Rovers into roving and hard science
When your tax payer dollars work it sure is exciting, the rovers continue to do amazing stuff and send back amazing pictures. [adot's notblog*]
Source code to Win NT and Windows 2000 available
Well it appears the cat is out of the bag and Microsoft probably about had a stroke as the worst possibly thing that could happen to a software company has happened the source code to Windows NT and Windows 2000 have been released on the Internet. I have yet to see many details about this but I bet computer programmers
Hacker Hall of Fame
Do you want to learn a little bit about Hacker History, well TLC has some interesting information including a Top 15 Hacker list. [tlc.discovery.com]
Microsoft security bug patched after 8 months
What is wrong with the folks at Microsoft, their number one priority should be to come up with security patches in a timely manner. [ArsTechnica]
Net access Tax is back under consideration
Seems there are 4 Senators who have nothing better to do are trying to remove the permanent ban on Internet Taxes. [Cnet]
Lindows trademark lawsuit gains some ground
Microsoft has been after Lindows ever since the company started re-selling Linux on there own branded computers and software. They won a small ruling in their favor today where the judge gave the jury some instructions on how to interpret the trademark Windows. [ZDNet]
Spyware vendors under attack
There has been some reporting that some Spyware companies have been paying for pop-up ad's that if read buy the un-educated would scare the consumer into buying anti-spyware software. Not to mention some of the vendors selling anti-spyware software are in fact rogue programs that install there own spying programs and call home. [ZDNet]
Google has killed RSS via Blogger
Well as of today I have killed 4-5 other blogs I had that where being run on Blogger as Google who acquired Blogger last year has decided to only support ATOM. What a waste and I cannot believe the founder allowed Google to make that decision. They can decide to not support RSS but I can choose to support RSS
The making of a File Sharing IP Mask
A programmer got so pissed at the RIAA for their antics that he has developed a program that mask users IP address from the prying eyes of the RIAA. AnonX is a more a service as you use AnonX servers as a proxy and they do not pass on the individuals source IP. They say they have ways to prevent
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