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How Much Do We Trust Shared Online Docs?

01.Jun.08 | 4 Comments

I received a comment on my recent Firefox 3: Most Visited post the other day and it’s still sitting in the moderation queue as I wonder what to do with it. Most comments are easy to divide between spam and useful, but this one has caused me to stop and ponder.
It’s a link to a [...]

2 links and GOBS of spyware articles.

25.Apr.05 | Leave a Comment

Been riding the whirlwind at work since I got back. Can’t complain, but it’s been keeping me busy.
We had some DNS related networking issues last Friday and over the weekend. While trying to figure out what was going on, I stumbled across this little gem of a collection of dns tools - http://www.dnsstuff.com/ [...]

Wed Paranoia

23.Feb.05 | Leave a Comment

I’ve mentioned these folks before, but SysInternals released a RootKit checker this week. Odds are, you might want to go have a look. They explain it much better than I can… but suffice it to say this goes along with my rather steady whining about the evils of spyware/malware and other icky such [...]

Gmail sploits, malware thingy, and more

12.Jan.05 | Leave a Comment

Ok, so we got a couple inches of snow today. Not bad, but very icy roads. I’ll take it though.
Tech - One of the first news article I saw this morning was about a Gmail Exploit. I have to say, the authors of the referenced article could’ve handled this with a bit [...]

Spyware / malware.

09.Jan.05 | Leave a Comment

Traditionally, if anyone asks me about spyware or malware problems, I point ‘em at the 1,2 punch combo of Spybot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft’s AdAware. These two together traditionally make a great combo and can handle most of what comes your way. Most being the keyword there. CWShredder is [...]

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