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A new rootkit?
July 27th, 2010For the third time in the last few weeks I have had to clean up yet another malware infection. However, these have all displayed similar symptoms, and I am thinking there might be another outbreak of malware coming. I have noticed that malware seems to come in waves. I will spend a whole bunch of [...]
It’s 2010, do you know where your balls are?
March 12th, 2010Apparently HP does. In their mice. Come on people. It’s 2010. Optical mice can be had from Newegg for $4. I can’t believe ball-mice are still being packaged with new machines. And this wasn’t even a cheap piece of crap Acer, this came with a brand new HP Proliant server! Sheesh. Spare no expense with [...]
Java: A Malware Writer’s Dream Come True
March 5th, 2010Not too long ago I wrote about how to Make Firefox More Secure by Disabling Java in it. Since I wrote that article in November, nearly every malware cleanup I have done since then has used Java as it’s injection vector, and that has been quite a lot. This has become a HUGE wide spread [...]
Firefox 3.6 Breaks Themes and Personas Coexistence
January 22nd, 2010I was excited to see that Firefox 3.6 was released today, so I promptly downloaded and installed it on my Asus Netbook (which I have been loving by the way). Upon restarting Firefox after the upgrade I noticed my Persona was missing. Now would be a good time to explain that I run a theme [...]
TrueCrypt Full System Encryption on a Netbook
January 2nd, 2010For the uninitiated, TrueCrypt is a Free, Open Source, on-the-fly disk encryption software. You can do many things with it, from Encrypting flash drive, to creating Encrypted file containers, to Full System Encryption. I had done all except the latter and I have been wanting to try it out. For various reasons though I had [...]
Windows Server Backup Sucks
December 5th, 2009This article is referring specifically to Windows Server Backup 1.0 that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2. I recently had the pleasure of another horrid Server 2008 product. This time around it’s the built in backup utility causing my head aches. What’s the problem with it? It’s slow. I don’t mean takes a few extra [...]
I still like Avira
November 14th, 2009Yesterday I wrote about how I had stumbled upon a virus through Java in Firefox and how Avira didn’t quite stop all the infections. I also mentioned I didn’t blame Avira because I felt that it was a new strain, and it looks like I was right. Yesterday when I scanned the infected file it [...]
Make Firefox More Secure, Disable Java
November 13th, 2009No, not Javascript. Java. Despite similar names, Javascript and Java are 2 entirely different things. Java, or Java applets are programs that can be embedded in to websites. They are generally poorly written, and hardly ever function right. Most people will probably never even need java, and in fact the only website I can think [...]
