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If you don’t know English, …
Scott Hanselman thinks that I’m linkbaiting. Just wanted to let everyone know, I stand 100% behind my affirmation that If you don’t know English you are not a programmer. I personally think that the following commenter (also cited in the blog) nailed it: It would *seem* (totally non-scientific sampling) that the non-English speakers (as a…
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The first rule of computer security is
You don’t talk about computer security. No, that’s not it, but it sure seems like many people adopt that attitude. Getting back to the subject, I want to talk about the first of the 10 Immutable Laws of Security: If a bad guy can run (persuade you to run) his program on your computer, it’s…
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F*** you Microsoft!
For deciding that your precious Windows Update is so important you have to restart my computer in the middle of the day, costing me two hours of work!
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Funny quote of the day
… if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. From an older version of the Linux Kernel Coding Style. The newer version contains a less funny (offensive?) wording…
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Google Reader, Javascript and Flash
I had the idea some time ago to highlight the source code I post via Javascript. I gravitated towards this solution because I don’t have source level control of Blogger (or do I? ;-)). My thought process was the following: include one .js in each post, which will check if the customization was already done…
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Malware challenge results are out
The contest results are out. I scored way below my expectation and – after reading a few submissions from the top half of the list – I can’t really tell what the reason for it is :-(. (Not that it matters all that much – given that I wasn’t eligible for prizes anyway – it’s…
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Is Vista really safer?
I keep reading articles like this: Security – One of The Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (other articles from this category are for example one which breaks down the MS Malicious Software Removal Tool statistics by versions of Windows to conclude the same thing). The problem with these? They fail to account for…
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Free AV from Microsoft
It seems like Microsoft is dropping their OneCare product line and repackaging it as “Morro”, a free consumer AV product. I read the news on Graham Cluley’s blog. What does this mean? This will of course eat from the pie of other vendors offering free products (AVG, Avira and Avast!). It will also get more…
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Opinions about whitelisting
I was reading the piece entitled White Listing – The End of Antivirus??? by the “Director of Technical Education”. Now it would be fairly easy to do ad-hominem attack against him, I will stick to the technical details of the post: First, it gives the argument that one of the approaches whitelisting companies use is…