Day: 21 April 2010
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Critical FAIL: Mcafee update cripples Windows machines
McAfee pushed out a virus definition update, 5958, today that causes false positive identification of the critical Windows system file svchost.exe. Machines running Windows XP Service Pack 3 using the 5958 definitions will delete the file, causing many key Windows services to fail to start. The Windows file is being mistakenly detected as W32/wecorl.a. Failure…
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ProPublica and This American Life team up to expose investment bankers and hedge fund managers
A fascinating look into the financial crash in America and world wide: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_music/play_full.php?play=405 For seven months a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica looked into a story for us, the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us. A…
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What is Linux? and software confusion …
A recent posting on the Blog of Helios prompted me to write a short and simple definition of Linux that might be useful for current non-users of this operating system. It is however a difficult definition in the context of what people already know. And the fact of the matter is that what the general…
