Offtakes on Web-related software, services 'n tips
Archive for July, 2006
A Date With Oooh!
Jul 30th
Another apology for a missed date with you. Maybe its the ageing process. Or stress. Or both. But I find it very hard to be enthusiastic about this blog. Well, who said the truth never hurts. But I do remember that even in an all round funk. Writing a bit about stuff that interests me make me cheer up somewhat.
Let’s roll with Firefox 2 Beta. And how it compares in general with Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3. Just as the latter incorporated most of the former’s keyboard shortcuts. As well as features like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, anti-phishing, scalable screen More >
Viruses Make a Comeback
Jul 16th
Do remain alert for a Trojan pretending to be an updated Windows Genuine Advantage Notification that runs as a service titled ‘wgavn’. The Trojan disables your Windows Firewall and adds a backdoor for further exploitation. If you decided to stop the Trojan, you get an on-screen message that doing so will cause system instability! The Trojan is being distributed via an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) message with an embedded hyper link. I assume that it will break free soon to be distributed ‘in the wild’.
Another Trojan targets Microsoft PowerPoint by taking advantage of an hitherto undocumented vulnerability to open More >
Are These Security Wonks or Wank(er)s?
Jul 10th
Many an Indian mountain road sign reads Better Late Than Never. Which goes for this column as well. So I’m a little late again. But do I have some interesting stuff for you. And its spicier than Zidane’s Red Card winning head butt in Sunday’s World Cup 2006 Final between France and Italy!
First is news from Australia that several IT companies. Worried by the possibility of confidential data exiting the enterprise on a USB stick or CD-ROM. Have removed the CD-RW drives common to today’s desktop computer. And they have also poured super glue into the USB ports to block More >
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Rocks Better
Jul 1st
Let’s lead off with a Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3. For once Microsoft has been listening to the enormous amount of feedback they have received since Beta was release a month plus ago. Besides the inevitable ‘under the hood’ improvements and bug fixes. IE 7 Beta 3 now supports drag ‘n drop Tab reordering quite like Firefox 2 and Opera 9. You can save multiple open Tabs into a Tab Group. And when you open it the tab order is identical to their positions on save. However the Quick Tab view remains a static rendering of open Tabs. You can’t More >
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