There are tonnes of software firewalls available on the internet, and 99% of them claims to be the “best” firewall that offer “comprehensive protections” like rootkit detection and this and that. Unfortunately, this neat article slaughters all the claims: http://www.rootkit.com/newsread.php?newsid=849. There’s nothing worse than a false sense of security. Attackers always target the temporary lapse in [...]
Those who’d enabled Gzip through Litespeed (unconfirmed on other servers) might find that the spellchecker in WordPress 2.5 no longer works. This is due to TinyMCE not decompressing the compressed output into plain text (my speculation). To fix this, edit /wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/rpc.php Change the following line: header(‘Content-Type: text/plain’); to header(‘Content-Type: text/xml’); or anything that Litespeed is not set to [...]
Microsoft Research’s Asira (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a human interactive proof that provides a rather viable alternative to classical CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) that use distorted/warped texts on colourful backgrounds. Asira is inspired by Frozen Bear’s HotCaptcha, Carnegie Mellon’s PIX CAPTCHA, Oli Warner’s KittenAuth. However, [...]
ESET, spol. s r.o., a Slovakian IT security company that produce one of the best antivirus solutions (NOD32) is now offering a free online web-browser based virus scanner + cleaner solution. While the online scanner could identify and resolve threats, is not a resident antivirus unlike its desktop counterpart and therefore will NOT be able [...]
One of the most frequent complains about Windows Vista is the Multimedia Class Scheduler (MCS). The is an enabled-by-default component in Windows that prioritises multimedia applications and tasks such as video and music playback (hence, improving your multimedia experience). However, when multimedia tasks are active (most notably if Windows Media Player is active), MCS will [...]