Classic Tech Tips Archive

I've just made it back over to the Transgaming site to check in on the release date for cedage 5.0 (formerly transgaming winex). It looks as though Tuesday November 8th at 2am (eastern Time zone (utc…

"It outta be illegal" is the first thing I usually hear as I start the long process of sanitizing a spyware infested windows machine. The fact is some parts of it ARE, some are just ethically questio…

This is something neat I found at the sunbeltblog. Usually I see spyware/security related bits there, but this was different and worth a mention. It appears to be a wall mountable pc around 4-5" squa…

I know there's been at least one and probably a couple of Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities announced in the last month or so. There are currently (according to Secunia) 3 unpatched Firefox vulnerabili…

Of course, I alluded to it in my Mandriva 2006 article, OpenOffice.Org 2.0 has officially escaped (been released). Bringing a nice shiny new gui for a database (BASE) a bit quicker load times, lot's …

Of course, another bit of news the last couple of weeks was the release of Mandriva 2006 by Mandriva Linux. Of course Mandriva is the former Mandrake, which merged/bought Connectiva and then acquired…

Well, one of the big items in the last span in linux news has been related to WINE... (Wine Is Not an Emulator). WINE of course in the context of linux is a layer of compatibility to allow Windows ap…

The last month has been quite busy as is evidenced by so few postings here.... Of course, the majority of what I do is on-site computer service and sometimes that explodes to fill most every moment o…

Well, it's been a bit since a post here, but if you haven't already patch your systems with Microsoft update, as new updates were released yesterday. Incidents.org is reporting rumors of bugs in the …

It looks like the site disappeared for a brief time. It looks like my service provider did some maintenance which left mysql looking for a file in a place it doesn't exist. I've done a script which h…

It looks as though Linspire 5 is available for free download through September 6. A review of the release is available here. According to desktop linux, this is in part related to freespire, which ha…

Say it ain't so.... yet another security vulnerability was discovered in Internet Explorer. Users are advised to use alternative browsers (firefox, opera, netscape.) At this point it doesn't look to …

The Security Fix has reported on the unraveling of a ring of identity theives after the arrests of the writers of the zotob and mytob worms. Apparently they have leads on about a dozen different peop…

It's worth warning that there will be a number of sham organizations and individuals looking to profit off the misery of others after the recent hurricane. The security fix has a posting on just that…

Spyware Confidential has an article and there are more details at the spyware warrior. Of a particularly bad spyware infestation triggered by the visit to ONE web site. Apparently she was investigati…

This afternoon I'll try to start catching up on some of the tech news I've neglected this week. Frankly it seems fairly insignificant contrasted with the disaster along the Gulf Coast. There have bee…

Really, the news over the last few days has been overwhelming. We've had some effects here in North Carolina with stations running out of gas rumours of all the stations closing at 6PM and prices cli…

Of course the thoughts and prayers of the nation and indeed the world are with those in the Gulf Coast area of the U.S. and particularly the situation in New Orleans. I ran across an amazing story of…

It looks as though there are quite a few things that I have skimmed over the last two days and haven't posted on. I've been preoccupied with a couple of projects and frankly following news regarding …

Along the lines of "Wishlist of Spyware Slime" that I referred to last week, it appears there's a chat transcript out from before the arrest of the suspected writer of the mytob and zotob worms. The …

Yesterday (or day before) Mandriva had a beta 3 come out, today I see OpenSuse has released the third beta in the release cycle for version 10. It sounds like most of the changes have not been user-v…

PHP which is a widely used scripting language for webpages has been found to have a serious vulnerability. The Inquirer is reporting on the announcement at hardened-php.net that the vulnerabilities a…

Incidents.org has an update on yesterdays story of very long registry entries not being visible in most registry tools (regedit among others.) They have an updated list of what does and does not read…

I'm impressed, it looks as though the FBI has announced the arrest of the authors of both the Zotob and Mytob viruses. Of course Zotob was in the wild in the last 2 weeks. This is really very good ne…

Well, frankly, there has been talk of the end of definition based antivirus scanning for years. You see the achilles heel of any AV scanner is that it has to have signatures of what known viruses loo…