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I was hit by MySpace worm
Published on 6 Aug 2006 at 9:40 am.
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I don’t really look at my own profile that much unless I am changing sometime, so it took almost a whole month for me to find out I was hit by a Myspace worm. Why did not one tell me that my profile was coming up with no background? Did you all think I when [...]
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Azureus (BitTorrent) Slowing down???
Published on 30 Oct 2005 at 2:03 am.
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If you find your BitTorrent client running very slow it mite be the port you are running has been blocked. Since BitTorrent is becoming the way large files are shared on the net some ISPs in an effort to conserve bandwidth are blocking the ports when they find them. Azureus one of the most popular [...]
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Nailing the Nail.exe
Published on 16 Aug 2005 at 8:21 pm.
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A friend’s son’s laptop was badly infected with spyware and viruses, so he asked me to clean it up. It had something like 900+ spyware items on it plus like 40 viruses running on it. This could have been avoided if he had kept his anti-virus updated, but it was more than a year out [...]
Is downloading movies or TV shows illegal?
Published on 12 Jun 2005 at 11:37 am.
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Is downloading movies or TV shows illegal? The true is I am not sure. This would be a question for lawyer which I am not. Keep in mind that anyone can sue anyone for just about anything in this country and that lawsuits are very expensive. These companies have lots of money and can bankrupt [...]
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DivX
Published on 4 Jun 2005 at 2:34 pm.
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If you download a video file say thru BitTorrent and find that you can play it; it is most likely because you don’t have DivX installed. DivX is a type of video encoding format that produces DVD and HDTV quality at a higher compression rate than other video encoders. Video files that are created with [...]
BitTorrent (File Sharing)
Published on 3 Jun 2005 at 1:02 am.
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BitTorrent is a file transfer protocol that allows files to be downloaded across the internet. And it is the hottest thing in “File SharingÃ¢â‚¬Âť. BitTorrent breaks a file into many parts and downloads and uploads the parts with others that are trying to download the same file. It does this fast and better than it [...]
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Caller ID can be Spoofed
Published on 22 Feb 2005 at 3:25 am.
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This is something that has been known for sometime to hackers, but it is becoming more common place. Just because your Caller ID says something does not make it so. Caller ID is just a short data burst that happened shortly after the first ring. So if you have equipment that can create the data [...]
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Microsoft to Scuttle Software Pirates
Published on 3 Feb 2005 at 7:56 pm.
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Microsoft is planning to start requiring proof of Microsoft Genuine software for software updates. They are starting off with the Windows update web page sometime around July 2005. One of the best protections against virus and hacker attacks is keeping up on the critical windows updates. Being a software developer myself; I have never condoned [...]
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More Spam Attacks
Published on 1 Jan 2005 at 1:20 am.
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Yes Timelordshangout has been under more comment spam attacks. I am surprised at how fast they are adapting to my security counter measures. Of course I have plenty of security tricks to keep them busy, and of course security has been tightened up on comment post yet again. Please let me know if you are [...]
Spam Attack on WordPress Blogs
Published on 20 Dec 2004 at 10:05 pm.
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Earlier today a program or script started posting random comments to this site which forced me to temporally disable comments on the site for about an hour. The problem takes advantage of the internal scripts inside WordPress to process the spam comments. I have changed the way the internal scripts interact with each other so [...]
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Timelord’s Hangout Under Spam Attack
Published on 20 Dec 2004 at 4:16 pm.
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Comments are temporarily disabled because Timelord’s Hangout is under Spam Attack. I am sorry for the inconvenient. I hope to be able to restore comment functionality soon. Later, The Timelord
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Anonymous Web Surfing Made Easy With FireFox
Published on 20 Dec 2004 at 1:44 am.
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For those that don’t know what FireFox is; it is a web browser. It is similar to IE (Internet Explorer) that comes with windows, and most use IE because it comes with windows. However there are a number of other software products that can be used to surf the net. FireFox is one of the [...]
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Anonymous Web Surfing
Published on 7 Nov 2004 at 1:14 am.
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It use to be that only hackers needed to use Anonymous web surfing to cover there tracks however with more and more tracking software being used for marketing normal users my want to take advantage of Anonymous web surfing. Anonymous Web Surfing is a way to hide you identity online. You computer’s IP address is [...]
Modding an Xbox
Published on 25 Aug 2004 at 12:39 am.
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First what is a modded Xbox? It is an Xbox that has had its hardware / software changed to allow it to boot up in a different way. This allows you to use abilities that the Xbox has but Microsoft has not yet allow access to. Xbox mods are not supported by Microsoft and may [...]
TTS’s top 10 dark tips
Published on 16 Aug 2004 at 10:25 pm.
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G4TechTV’s The Screen Savers top 10 dark tips Warning miss use of this information could get you into serious legal trouble. Please use the information wisely. Later, The Timelord
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AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) Secrets
Published on 17 Jul 2004 at 11:47 pm.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done in AIM that are not widely known about. Some of them are fun, and others are more on the dark side. I am not going to reveal them to you because they can be missed used. However I will point you to a site that [...]