Here is a quick tip to install and run applications on Windows XP without affecting the registry. While this is not strictly comparable to Windows Vista’s inbuilt Sandbox, Registry & File System Virtualization feature, it is a quick method to run programs such as IE on XP in restricted mode, preventing malware or viirus from [...]

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Phone Home Robot Pro (Phorp) is a free cross-platform application for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX that runs silently on your desktop computer or laptop, and periodically “phones home” to a server to check if it has been stolen, and gets instructions on what to do if it has been. You can use your own [...]

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DarkReading has published an interesting article on the world’s top three Botnets- Storm, RBot and Bobax - about their facts, how they spread and what makes them difficult to detect. As you will notice, two of the botnets are based on popular protocols- HTTP and P2P- making them difficult to distinguish from genuine traffic.
Storm
Size: 230,000 [...]

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Here is some breaking news for Nokia S60 mobile users. The very much frustrating Symbian Signed security platform v9.2 has been exposed to hacks. No longer do you need to use tools such as SignSIS & DevCertRequestControl to get a certificate for installing applications. Users can now bypass the Symbian Signed certification check and install [...]

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Cloudmark has released a new beta version of its anti-spam and anti-phishing toolbar for Mozilla Thunderbird. Cloudmark uses its collaborative network of millions of its toolbar users to identify potential spam or phishing emails.
When a user clicks the Block Spam or Block Phish buttons, Cloudmark compares the message’s fingerprints with those of messages that [...]

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