Found at The Hive, an online forum of which IE-VISTA is a Featured Sponsor. http://windowscoding.com/blogs/blake/archive/2006/07/25/Convert-your-firefox-favorites-and-feeds-into-IE7-with-_2200_Firefox-To-IE7_2200_.aspx Still a work in progress, and worth keeping an eye on. Unfortunately the only download on the site at time of writing is in RAR format, meaning you will need a special programme to access it. RAR is not a format that […]
From Harry’s bloghttp://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archive/2006/07/25/105724.aspx “FormSpy (aka FireSpy) is a new spyware program designed to integrate into the Mozilla browser environment. It is being spread by spam email spoofed to appear as a billing issue from Walwart. It was launched on July 24th. The attachment contains a downloader malware agent that can install FormSpy as a Firefox […]
Can anybody reproduce this? Click on any pre-existing favorite to visit the site (note the address in the tooltip) – screenshot taken before site loaded: The site has now loaded. Now click on any link on that page that takes you to a different URL on that same site – I chose one to […]
Shortly after midnight a definition update was released (599) that flagged C:\PROGRAM FILES\REALVNC\VNC4\WINVNC4.EXE as Troj_Generic. The false positive was fixed by update 601 pushed out at 02:43am. Thankfully, no damage was done (apart from Trend filling my inbox with 391 alarm-bell emails, and my Trend Console logs with close to 1500 virus alarms). Trend was […]
McAfee’s Site Advisor has competition, strong competition, from LinkScanner, a new (free) offering by security startup Exploit Prevention Labs. LinkScanner claims to be a real time exploit scanner, unlike McAfee’s Site Advisor which it describes as “not immediate and not empirical“.cite: http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=35171 LinkScanner is the brainchild of Bob Bales, Greg Mosher, Chris Weltzien and Roger Thompson, […]
Regular readers will remember the various reports about Leo Shyster (oops Stoller), the guy who tried to claim ownership of the word “Castle”.http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2006/06/28/103057.aspx It seems the USPTO has finally run out of patience with Mr Stoller:http://www.shapeblog.com/Order%207-14-06.pdf Some choice quotes: “… your filing of more than 1100 requests for extension of time to oppose within the […]
FIX: A child window may open in the full width of the screen when you use the Window.Open method and you specify a window width that is larger than the width of the screen in Internet Explorer 6 SP1http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;915113
Why don’t people patch their machines?? Over one million visitors to various myspace.com pages have been infected via the WMF exploit that was patched back in JANUARY. myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.html This scares me.. Microsoft can only do so much to protect users from themselves. The use of this exploit has been such an amazing success for the […]
Consider the following scenario. You use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to visit a Web site that contains a link to a document. You click the link to the document, and then click Open to open the document. For example, you connect to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site, and then you click a link […]
Ok, so tell me something I *don’t* know:http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Eighty_percent_of_new_malware_defeats_antivirus/0,2000061744,39263949,00.htm The time is long past that I have depended on any antivirus or antispyware product to clean a system properly, or detect all malware files. Instead I depend on products such as Process Explorer, GMER, Killbox, various rootkit analysers, packet sniffers and anything else that helps me […]