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Get Pro or Plus? Why bother?!
Some weeks ago I asked LS to make Ad-Aware OpenSource. Apparently it’s not the time for it yet, however, they made it fully functional freeware with version 7.0.1.5! Want a screenshot as proof? No problem. Just read on 😉
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IContextMenu::QueryContextMenu
This will be a well-known method name to those of my readers who ever dealt with context menu shell-extensions. Since I am at the moment resuming the work on my own multi-purpose shell-extension, I also searched for resources and there … Continue reading
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One year/ein Jahr
Dieser Blog existiert schon ein Jahr lang 😯 This blog already exists for one year 😯 However, after blogging about the conspiracy of the Geman Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble and his footmen to take away all kinds of … Continue reading
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No it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke
Michał ‘GiM’ Spadliński, a Polish blogger wrote in his article “Czy Redpill Joanny Rutkowskiej jest poprawny?“: Oliver Schneider (Reverse Engineer pracujący dla F-Prota) opublikował […] artykuł, datowany na pierwszego kwietnia, który wcale nie wygląda na prima aprilisowy żart. This made … Continue reading
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Battle of the titans?
Ptacek, Lawson and Ferrie – well-known security specialists – joined up to challenge Rutkowska and prove that her virtualization rootkit BluePill (up to now AMD-specific) is detectable regardless of her claims. The above link leads to her official reply to … Continue reading
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Nice tool from Microsoft.
No, this time it is not a binary file for download. It is a website. Hope you enjoy as much as I did when pointed to it by a colleague. This website allows you to look up DLL versions and … Continue reading
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What the heck, Kaspersky???
… 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
www.irct.org
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Realtime protection
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
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 …
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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Behind the words …
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
… 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
Let’s nitpick
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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“Happy” users everywhere …
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.
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 …
… 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 …
… 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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DDKBUILD.CMD getting closer to Gold
After a bug report which turned out to be a false alarm, I have only clarified some stuff in the help output and in the comments of the code. Furthermore one line of code saw some change, which doesn’t have … Continue reading
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