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What virtualization can and cannot do in an anti-malware context
Over at the anti-virus rant blog (which is a nice blog because it includes the word rant in the title :)) Kurt Wismer states that virtualization is overhyped as a security technology. While I agree, I want to point out that following some simple rules, it can be a very powerful security which can easily…
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Random stuff
For fun: The Opinionated Beer page: if operating systems were beers. An interesting idea: a search engine with an unusual way to present the results. While the interface is appealing, on the long run it seems an overkill. Also the fact that the first results are advertisements with only very subtle indication of this fact…
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“not a valid win32 application”
An interesting difference between the loader of Win9x and WinNT line (tested with Win98 and Win2K SP4): if SizeOfImage is bigger than the sum of the header sizes and section sizes, Win98 will happily load it, while Win2K will complain that it’s not a valid Win32 application. The tricky part about this is that you…
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On Delphi
Being a long time Delphi programmer, I really enjoyed this blog posting about learning Delphi. My favorite quote: The Delphi compiler itself is lightning fast. Sometimes I compile twice because I’m not sure I actually hit the compile key. It is so true. The first thing I do when I install Delphi is to check…
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FiT Search Engine
I started playing with the Google Custom Search Engine and I created a search engine for one of my favorite podcasting / blogging group: FiT. Try it out below: Google Custom Search Or consume it in a custom format: Link to the Google page Add it to your google page: Hope I didn’t leave out…
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The 14th post
Because 13 is not a nice number :), and because the submission deadline for the two contests has passed, I thought I share with you my solutions (they are not guaranteed to be complete over correct for that matter): The Hitch-Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy How did Zay Zeutrino gather the desired data to switch…
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100th post & various short stories
Incredible, isn’t it? This is the 100th post! Also a curious thing: in both October an November I had 39 posts (I didn’t plan it and didn’t observe it until I moved over to the beta Blogger and started tinkering with the customization of my blog). What follows are some small bits of information: A…
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An (almost) Christmas present
Hello all! After listening to the latest episode of the Hanselminutes podcast (Life Hacks with Gina Trapani), I thought I make a little gift for all of you Hanselminutes friends (a great podcast by the way – if you didn’t listen to it, you should try it): a bookmarklet to highlight certain keywords on the…
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10 Immutable Laws of Security
From Microsoft: 10 Immutable Laws of Security. A very nice and correct writeup.