Microsoft has been installing an add-on named “.NET Framework Assistant” in Firefox which is designed for ClickOnce technology. This has been upsetting to many Firefox users because it’s sneaky and unsecure, this type of behaviour is similar to malware or spyware, there’s no uninstall button to remove the add-on.
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I like to have a anti virus in my system just in case, I scan my PC at least every fortnight. Came across Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta last night, too bad it dosen’t work on a 64 bit OS.
Installed it on my laptop instead just to try it out, uninstalled Avira AntiVir which I think is great.
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Frontline is working on a multiplatform project called “Digital Nation – Life on the Virtual Frontier” which is due to be aired sometime in 2010, this is about the digital age and how it is changing us.
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Only remove the cookies that has a privacy risk to you, and leave the others that might have saved preferences.
This is a light weight executable free of charge and you can set it to clean your system on boot up.
codefromthe70s.org/cookienator.aspx
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I found a recommendation for Tagscanner on a forum because I wanted to extract mp3 songs from a certain mp3 player you probably know which one, you have to enable hidden folders then you can find the music but the problem was the file names didn’t make sense but I had a hunch that the ID3 tags were still intact, so wondered how the information could be extracted.
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Conficker, also known as Downup, Downandup, Conflicker, and Kido, is a computer worm that surfaced November 21st, 2008 with Conficker.A and targets the Microsoft Windows operating system. The worm exploits a known vulnerability (MS08-067) in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 Beta. The latest variant (Conficker.C) will begin checking for a payload to download on March 31st, 2009. Conficker.A and Conficker.B variants continue to check for payloads each with a distinct domain generation algorithm.
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This video is from an awesome site, www.ted.com “TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design is an annual conference that defines its mission as “ideas worth spreading” (Wikipedia). it’s just full of interesting keynotes this is one of the special ones…
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Yes it’s on the iPhone an official Skype Application.
This link requires itunes or the iPhone itself:
note: chat is possible without WiFi, but voice calls only work if you have a WiFi connection.
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This is really cool if your system has a lot of applications and your the type that is web secure aware, trying to reduce the constant number of vulnerabilities that we all need to patch or update.
Online Scanner (requires Java) –
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/
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This Firefox Add-on helps you synchronize your bookmarks with Xmark’s servers this is essential if you value your saved links like I do.
Install straight from here or check out the home page first below.
http://static.xmarks.com/clients/firefox/xmarks-3.0.1.xpi
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