For years now I have used both SpywareBlaster and SpyBot to immunise my web browsers against
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January 19th, 2010 |
 Computers, Software, web browsers |  Computers, Internet, Rants, Software |  Leave a comment When Internet Explorer 8 came out Microsoft said they had seriously improved security and that it was now one of the safest web browsers to use. Apparently they were wrong. According to the Guardian newspaper here in the UK an exploit in Internet Explorer was used in the recent attack on Google’s systems in China. source So [...] Some of the software Ninite offers Have you just installed/reinstalled Xp, Vista or Windows 7? Need to install programs but don’t want to sit there manually installing them? Then try Ninite Easy PC Setup. Ninite makes installing multiple applications simple. You just go to their site, select the applications you want to install and then [...] Facebook has won a court case against a spammer who was abusing their site to send spam to Facebook users. The spammer known as Spamford, real name Sanford Wallace, is also facing prosecution for criminal contempt of court which could result in prison time. Wallace has also previously been prosecuted by MySpace for abusing their [...] Fancy trying the new OS that Google is working on? Well you’re out of luck but in the meantime you can try the Chrome OS that for some bizarre reason Suse has made and released on a Google hosted site http://sites.google.com/site/chromeoslinux/ (Google has taken the site down). What’s really funny is the amount of people [...] I recently posted how Windows 7 in Europe was going to come without a browser. Apparently now it is looking like instead of having no browsers you will be asked to select a browser when you install Windows 7 and it will then install your chosen web browser. No word yet on which browsers will [...] Apparently when Windows 7 is released the European version will not have Internet Explorer included. The Windows 7 E moniker is just to indicate it is the European version and might be dropped before official release. This is apparently in response to the antitrust suit Opera filed against Microsoft for bundling IE as part of [...] Well Apple has gone and released the memory hog that is Safari 4. It does look good but given that it uses a ridiculous amount of memory I think I will pass. It has some nice features that only work on a mac. Go figure. Also Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox 3.5. It [...] June 9th, 2009 |
Chrome, Firefox, Flock, Safari, web browsers, Web Development | Computers, Internet, Software, Web Development | 4 comments A couple of weeks ago I started running to try and get back in to shape. When running I like to listen to music but finding good tracks to listen to whilst running isn’t easy. Needs to have a fast beat to encourage you to push yourself. Anyway I found Podrunner which is a collection [...] I’m writing this because blocking by domain on my hosts pretty much kills my web site and so I have had to learn to block ip addresses. Blocking single ip addresses is simple as you just need something like the following order allow,deny And that will block the computer at [...] May 15th, 2009 |
Script Kiddies, spam, spammers, Web Development | Web Development, spam | Leave a comment |
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