By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about the security hole in Firefox, and the “recommended fixes”. Here’s the thing though, turning off Javascript disables all those cool little Greasemonkey scripts, and turning off “Let website install software” just makes it more difficult for people to get extensions for Firefox. It’s those extensions and add-ons…
Even though this happened Weds. night, I took the day off from blogging yesterday to let the absurdity of the situation fully sink in before writing about it. As many of you know, I have been actively seeking new employment options. Many of you also know, that I’ve had my share of bad experiences with…
Thanks for allowing me the temporary diversion in the interest of helping out Ohio’s libraries, now for the random techie comments: Perhaps the worst drive-by adware ever! According to Virtualsecurity.org, this one actually goes ahead and downloads the .NET framework if you don’t already have it, without asking, so it can use it to display…
Since I don’t really have anything interesting of my own to write about, I thought I’d take a minute to throw some highlights from the link blog up for those of you who don’t keep up with that on a regular basis. The IT Question Bank Spyware hitting blogspot The Security Industry wants you to…
Reading a couple of things today about the anti-spyware app got me thinking more about the future of the product, and how a full release will go. There’s two thoughts running right now for me, what I want, and what I’m afraid of. What I want is it to be free, and part of Windows…
After downloading and installing the MS anti-spyware app, well it does work. Of course, being a somewhat careful surfer, the only place I notice it working is in the same areas that SP2 already took care of on XP, because the laptop I loaded it on is 2000. It asked me to shut down the…