Though not really related in anyway to the subject of this blog I found this quite interesting you can view the video here. Thanks to this blog for the video and link.
Vista’s UAC Defeated
Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) which Microsoft said would the bread and butter of their new security features can easily be rendered useless. Pcworld has this article(printable version) that has more information.
The rundown is that a seedy malware writer can do some crafty scripting and add a dll file to the hard drive, then when the malware attempts to run Vista will run the UAC and change warning dialog to a dialog which signifies that this is part of the operating system itself and inherently safe. By this time the user is already accustom to clicking confirm and automatically clicks and poof magically infected system.
Microsoft responded with this “They did not see it as an issue,”. Therefore nothing is being done about this.
A New Logo
I’ve been playing around with making a logo for my computer repair on the side business. I’ve come up with a couple different choices. Let me know what you think of them. Personally I like the first the best. I got to thinking after I did the second one that If the monitor had been shot that it wouldn’t still be on. The third one was just a little to plain for my taste.
Interesting Little Places
I’ve run across a couple of interesting historical geek places. I figured someone might appreciate the historical value. Thanks to this blog I discovered these places.
Problem Solved
I’ve gotten my blog back to 100%. The problem was with an incorrect verison of php. So I complied the latest verison in the 4.x branch and that seems to have fixed the problems. It was a battle figuring out what was happening but I’ve won.
