Author Archives: Oliver

What the heck, Kaspersky???

Posted on 2007-06-30 by Oliver

… here Kaspersky claims: An advisory has recently been published on rootkit.com regarding a vulnerability in KAV 7.0. Unfortunately, the authors of this material chose not to adhere to industry standard practice, and contact the vendor prior to disclosing vulnerability … Continue reading →

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20th Anniversary of the UN Convention Against Torture

Posted on 2007-06-26 by Oliver

www.irct.org

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Realtime protection

Posted on 2007-06-24 by Oliver

The term “Realtime protection” has been overused in recent years and used in a completely wrong sense ever since it was invented. To make sure to not be misunderstood – yes, even the company I work for has used the … Continue reading →

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Behind the words #2

Posted on 2007-06-17 by Oliver

It took me a while to understand the subtle humor in one of LS’ slogan after being pointed to it by a good friend. The slogan is very prominent on the main website and says: You have enough to worry … Continue reading →

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Users grumpy? I don’t know why …

Posted on 2007-06-17 by Oliver

In this blog entry I outlined that the new approach LS takes to keep malware from the customer’s machine was due to downtime. Suddenly people start complaining about it, although this strategy was clearly shown during the beta phase in … Continue reading →

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Biometrie-Terror

Posted on 2007-06-16 by Oliver

http://www.ccc.de/updates/2007/biometrie-terror In der Hoffnung, daß die Leute vom CCC noch ein schönes Banner kreieren … // Oliver

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Behind the words …

Posted on 2007-06-16 by Oliver

Have you ever looked at LS’s management website? The fact that the number of (management) people seems to be shrinking in the last few months is well-known and I will leave it to my reader to compare the photos and … Continue reading →

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Russian view on G8

Posted on 2007-06-14 by Oliver

… the picture in the previous blog entry (below this one) contains the following text: Go tell him all we think of him! Just don’t look into his eyes!!! // Oliver

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Russische Sicht auf G8

Posted on 2007-06-14 by Oliver

Hier findet man eine Karikatur vierer altbekannter Figuren im G8-Kabinett. Die beiden rechts sagen der jungen Dame (nun wer mag das wohl sein ;)): Geh und sag ihm alles was wir über ihn denken! Aber schau ihm bloß nicht in … Continue reading →

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Let’s nitpick

Posted on 2007-06-12 by Oliver

On LS’ blog, the latest entry is bragging about the positive press AAW 2007 got. Well, not press in the traditional sense, because real journalists would have investigated thoroughly. Let’s nitpick a bit. One of the first applications built to … Continue reading →

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Wirklich unverbesserlich, dieser “Mielke auf Rädern”

Posted on 2007-06-10 by Oliver

Während es früher für Ausländer in Deutschland hieß: “Beckstein, Beckstein, alles muß versteckt sein!”, scheint Schäuble tatsächlich nie genug zu bekommen. Es ist unglaublich mit welcher Skrupellosigkeit Politiker heutzutage bescheuerte Ideen zum besten geben dürfen ohne von einer breiten Bevölkerungsmehrheit … Continue reading →

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“Happy” users everywhere …

Posted on 2007-06-10 by Oliver

This seems to be the case in Lavasoft’s support forum. Now, while there are some people not satisfied with the products of my company as well, it is not solely Ad-Aware 2007 which is to blame as it seems: This … Continue reading →

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Comments suspended.

Posted on 2007-06-09 by Oliver

Thanks to the ever-increasing amount and frequency of spam-comments, I removed the option for comments for now. However, I’ll attempt to work out a fix (possibly similar to the fix I use in the UVNC forum) and then enable it … Continue reading →

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Cables glowing, servers burning …

Posted on 2007-06-07 by Oliver

… the launch of the newer and better product is a full success at download.com as it seems. A little less than 250 million (244229387 at the time of this writing) downloads in less than two hours, this has to … Continue reading →

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Morning has broken …

Posted on 2007-06-06 by Oliver

… as is the software. Since a few minutes (Swedish time) the new day has begun and it will be a glorious day – it will be release day. Since everyone knows what it is about, I will not give … Continue reading →

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Auch ich habe schon Arschlöchern die Hand …

Posted on 2007-06-05 by Oliver

… geschüttelt, fiel mir nur so ein, als ein DienerBediensteter aus Heiligendamm in einer Reportage auf DW-World zum besten gab, daß er schon im vorigen Jahr die Hände berühmter Politiker geschüttelt hätte. Allerdings fiele mir das natürlich nie im Zusammenhang … Continue reading →

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Deutsche “Volksmusik” im Fitneßstudio

Posted on 2007-06-04 by Oliver

Beim heutigen Besuch hier im Fitneßstudio gab es deutsches Kulturangebot beim Gewichtheben zu geniessen: Rammstein. Mir scheint nach diversen Auslandsreisen, daß Rammstein bei weitem die bekannteste deutsche Band ist, auch wenn ich eher so auf Blind Guardian und andere stehe … Continue reading →

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Den Namen “Ernst Corinth” kennt man ja …

Posted on 2007-06-03 by Oliver

… als Leser einschlägiger Satirezeitschrifen schon. Seit einiger Zeit hat der gute Mann aber bei TELEPOLIS eine Art wöchentliche Kolumne, wo er zuletzt unter anderem dieses Video verlinkte. Da ich das Video inhaltlich sehr ansprechend finde, wollte ich es hier … Continue reading →

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Es gibt bekanntlich Essen auf Rädern …

Posted on 2007-06-02 by Oliver

… soeben habe ich aber im Heise-Forum einen neuen Begriff kennengelernt. “Erich Mielke auf Rädern” – wer mag damit wohl nur gemeint sein? // Oliver

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Habe soeben mein Schlafzimmer “abgedichtet”

Posted on 2007-06-02 by Oliver

Dem Rat meines Chefs Friðrik folgend, habe ich soeben mein Schlafzimmer halbwegs lichtdicht bekommen, indem ich das Fenster mit Aluminiumfolie “abgedichtet” habe. Kommende Nacht werde ich erstmal sehen wie haltbar diese Lösung ist und ob es wirklich so gut hilft. … Continue reading →

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