Tag: Security

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Still Got The Rootkit Blues.

From time to time I’d get a call from acquaintances regarding their computers. Usually it’s about the viruses, trojans, worms, spywares, etc.

Well, this time it’s a Rootkit!

I know that the most effective way is to wipe the hard-drive clean and fresh-install Windows. I opted to clean the system to see what kinda damges done on this computer. Thanks to ComboFix author!

I’m going to fresh-install Windows later.

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iStumbler is now Snow Leopard Compatible.

After a long wait, one of my favorite utilities is now Snow Leopard Compatible.

Enter iStumbler 0.9.9 on February 16th, 2010.

iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices, Bonjour services and Location information with your Mac.

Release 99 includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements for Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

I really missed this app.

iStumbler is also available for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), Tiger (10.4), Panther (10.3) and Jaguar (10.2).

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Yet another Text Spam, (562) 314-8316.

I’ve got another Text Spam and this time is from (562) 314-8316.

I have been filing complaints to FCC and unfortunately they ruled that such Text Spam did not violate any of their rules. I’ll get to that in the future.

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WordPress.com Outage: The Aftermath, Part 2.

In a rare instance, WordPress.com was offline for almost two hours on Thursday February 18th, 2010 (Pacific Time). The team at WordPress still looking at the cause of the outage so to prevent it from happening again.

The outage happened when I was updating WordPress Stats plugin for the self-install WordPress Blogs that I am managing/maintaining. Based on this one information, could the outage involved WordPress API server or the Stats server?

Since I don’t really have access to WordPress.com core servers, I wouldn’t really know what was really going on. It’s just a hunch.

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WordPress.com Outage: The Aftermath, Part 1.

I’d better make sure to spell “outage” correctly this time. Yeah, for some reason the iPhone assumed that I wanted to type “outrage” earlier. Blame the double tapping the “t” on the iPhone.

Anyway, WordPress.com is back up and the preliminary reports reveals:

  • 110 minutes of downtime.
  • 10.2 million blogs were down, as opposed to 9.2 million blogs as reported by other source.
  • estimated of 5.5 millions of missing pageviews.
  • the cause of the outage is still unknown.

We’ll find out soon what caused the outage, hopefully.

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MobileMe iDisk App Update is Available.

If you’re an iPhone and MobileMe user, get the MobileMe iDisk App update now.

MobileMe is available from Apple for $99.99 (Single User) and $149.99 (Family Pack). Go to Apple Retail Store, and often they will sell you MobileMe on a discounted price.

If you’re want to get MobileMe, get it from Amazon for an everyday discounted price (2010.02.17).

If you’re not a MobileMe user, I recommend Dropbox. Even if you’re not an iPhone user, Dropbox is highly recommended.

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