I just received a spam email from representparty.org. Now I have never used the email address they used to sign up for any service so I am wondering
Where did they get the email address from?
Who advised them that sending spam is a way to make friends?
Who is advising them on their internet policy as google [...]
This article at CNet describes how Ad agencies are distributing Malware with their Ads, and even big sites such as The New York Times are delivering these ads directly to your browser.
If you read the article you will see that Javascript or Flash scripts are used to install the Malware on your computer without you [...]
I have just received a comment to my post regarding wp-spamfree and decided to do a search for other users of wp-spamfree who had had problems.
StevoFC has some negative comments but didn’t really look into the cause of the problems. If he had done a little research to find out why the comments were being [...]
I find the new firefox tab method confusing. It opens it to the right of the existing tab not to the far right.
To go back to the old method go to about:config, search for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent and change it to false.
I just had to reinstall Windows 7 and had forgotten about this…
From an article at http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love.ars
I only block Ads that are irritating, slow or get in the way. Google ads are not blocked on my system.
If you want to keep your adverts viewable make them unobtrusive. no flash (I block scripts), no rotating gifs as I don’t want to be continuously distracted from what I am [...]
I installed 2 updates today,
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 – March 2010 (KB890830)
Microsoft Security Essentials Client update package – KB2019198
After installing my mouse failed and then the whole computer locked up. I rebooted thinking that would clear it. about 3 minutes after the reboot the system BSOD’d.
I restarted in safe mode and used the [...]
I have now made the final push to go opensource on all my windows 7 applications. Although I would say the overall project has been a success there are one or two areas of failure.
Here is a list of tasks and software I use to complete them.
Web Browsing – FireFox
Email – ThunderBird
Office – OpenOffice
FTP – [...]
I am looking for an Open Source HTML editor to replace Frontpage which I have been using for years. I quite liked frontpage for it’s 3 tabbed approach to pages. I could draw tables in the design mode, go into the html mode and edit it to remove the frontpage fluff and add php code, [...]
I am starting work on a new website and using Zend Framework (as previously mentioned). One of the most demoralising things when coding is not seeing the finished results of your work for weeks/months.
Secunia offer a free personal edition of their PSI software. This software checks all the software on your computer and checks that you have the latest patched version installed.
This saves you going through each program to see if there is an update for it. It is not a virus scanner or security product but it [...]