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Trojan Keylogger Masquerades as Make Love Not Spam Screensaver

Trojan Keylogger Masquerades as Make Love Not Spam Screensaver Lycos Europe has, temporarily, perhaps, discontinued its controversial Make Love Not Spam screensaver; however, crackers have picked up on the antispam application's popularity and are riding its coattails right onto your computer. Should you invite the crackers in, you'll be installing a keylogging application that will track everything that you type

What was your first domain name?

If I had realized back in 1991 that the net was going to explode I would have registered domains that really counted instead of hafaadai.com, I was living in Guam at the time and had registered the domain to get e-mail via a UUCP connection. Things were pretty hands on then. I remember dialing into a Compuserve telnet account and

Is the PC under your desk headed for extinction?

If you read the linked story, some people think we are already in the Post PC era. Personally I beg to differ, sure PC's are going to change some but people will still need a separate computer away from the kids to do research and all of the normal things we all do on our computers. I can't see working

Blogging Is A Mainstream Activity

Microsoft Corp.'s MSN service debuted a free blogging service, this past week. Users can create a new weblog (blog) and be posting to their online journal in less than five minutes. This is proof positive that blogging is a mainstream activity. Blog is one of the most frequently discussed Internet topics; it's an elegant demonstration of personal expression and corporate

How VOIP works

I called my mom today on Skypeout and was impressed with the quality she said the quality was as good as a regular phone. I purposely pushed my Internet connection pretty hard while I was talking with her to see if I could impact the quality. Even downloading 4 large files and pushing 2 files to a ftp site the

Philadelphia Metropolitan Wi-Fi Plan Not Blocked by Legislation

Philadelphia Metropolitan Wi-Fi Plan Not Blocked by Legislation The City of Philadelphia has concluded negotiations with Verizon Communications, and will move forward with plans to develop a metropolitan Wi-Fi network, even though a new Pennsylvania law allows telecommunication carriers from blocking such projects.

Windows Servers Vulnerable to Takeover through WINS

A flaw in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) in Windows NT Server 4.0, Server 2000, and Server 2003 creates a security hole that would allow a cracker to gain full control over the network server, thereby putting corporate data at risk.