K’s Weblog

After a somewhat brief Aikido class tonight I was enlisted by Crow to help rid a Vista machine of the Vundo trojan which found it’s way onto the machine (prior to Avast being installed).
Avast did a great job of finding most things and cleaning them up.  What it had trouble with was a few DLLs [...]

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I finally got the chance today to get back to working on PowerTray, this time with my Visual Studio 2005 installation on my Virtualized Windows Vista setup.  The first thing I ran into was this warning dialog:

To me, this is the kind of issue that shows immaturity in the OS.  Though it is possible to [...]

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At the recent AusCERT 2006 Conference, a survey was published by Graham Ingram general manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) which discussed the effectiveness of several leading anti-virus products.  The survey states that an average of 8 in 10 threats are getting through the protection that these products provide.
Some research done by [...]

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Well I just found these a few days ago, and thought it might be interesting to keep track of… If you have a website that you manage, you can set up an account with Google where you can track the status of your pages and see how “easily findable” you are. Google’s set of [...]

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I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to implement some “security” measures in Chromium Blog Project. The three that are causing me the most grief in terms of a decision are:

Allowing HTML in Posts
Allowing Anonymous comments/responses
Putting some sort of image in to restrict automated account creation & logins

Right now, I’m coming down on [...]

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