Category Archives: EN

Anything that does not fit into other categories …

RSS feed for DDKWizard and DDKBUILD!

Today I set up an RSS feed for DDKWizard and DDKBUILD under this URL. If you are interested in either of these tools, please feel free to subscribe and get automatic notifications about updates within your favorite feed reader. // … Continue reading

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Collecting swear words …

… please send them to web@lavasoft.com … and keep the Ad-Aware 20067 betas in mind. Oh, four-letter swear words only, please // Oliver PS: They really asked for it, just in case you wonder. Screenshot available as always 😉

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AV-workshop presentations available

As some of you may know, FRISK Software had invited professionals from the AV industry and AV testers to attend the “International Antivirus Testing Workshop” this week in Reykjavik. The workshop was held on tuesday and wednesday and I had … Continue reading

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Make Ad-Aware OpenSource!

Now, as we know Lavasoft has published Beta 7 of its flagship-product-to-be Ad-Aware 20067 and things are getting better and better and better … well, just help yourself by getting an overview in the beta forum. I call on the … Continue reading

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PISA auch bei älteren Semestern sichtbar?!

Glücklicherweise muß man heute den Heise-Newsticker nicht mehr täglich verfolgen, denn eine Zusammenfassung der interessantesten Themen findet man ganz sicher bei Mathias – so auch diesmal wieder. Bei mir stellt sich da gleich die Frage, ob man den Richtern ins … Continue reading

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Not valid for the pope?

It’s the pope‘s birthday. Politicians from around the globe were bowing before him and worshipping him yesterday during a birthday mass. Which made me wonder … You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord … Continue reading

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The next programming language I’ll learn …

Fjölnir … right after I excel in Icelandic 😉

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Wicked stuff!

Ilfak posted a nice demo clip on his blog: “Decompilation gets real”. This is really a dream of many reversers and could really speed up the analysis of many samples. // Oliver

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Bomb Iceland instead of Iran

A colleague here at FRISK (which is located in Reykjavik, Iceland) just pointed me to this “proposal”. Спасибо, Анна. // Oliver

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Nice rate of spam lately …

More than 200 trackback spams per 24 hours is the rate the spam comes in lately. At this rate I am not willing to check the suspect spam entries for clean comments. So if you feel like commenting something and … Continue reading

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Endangered languages?

Danish language endangered? // Oliver

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Beta 52 has been postponed …

LS just announced that the Beta 52 of Ad-Aware 2007 has been postponed by one year. Instead of making it available in March 2008 it is now scheduled around March 2009 due to a change in the beta release cycle … Continue reading

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Redpill getting colorless? (continued)

In my previous article from November last year I challenged the claims of Joanna Rutkowska concerning Redpill. A recent article in the German computer magazine iX (April 2007) mentioned Rutkowska’s findings again so that I decided to review the tool, … Continue reading

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Teach yourself basic Swedish in 3 minutes

“Slå mig med din rytmpinne” … don’t slå mig, though Have fun, // Oliver Update: fixed the link, pointing to a live recording now.

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A very nice text

Why I Hate Frameworks Danke Mathias! // Oliver

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Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes …

In Germany we are calling changing weather “April weather”. Here in Iceland you get the whole spectrum of “April weather” compressed in one day. Hail outside? Nah, just wait five minutes and it’s either rain or sunshine instead (or snow). … Continue reading

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PuTTY Key Generator

To create a public/private key pair for use in PuTTY (i.e. OpenSSH and so on) use the following method.

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DDKWizard and DDKBUILD.CMD updated

The fixes in DDKWizard are minor except for one. This one requires manual fixing in old existing projects that have been created using DDKWizard. The problem is described in section 5.1 “Important change in version 1.1.1b”. As for DDKBUILD there … Continue reading

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Eugene Kaspersky worried about increase of malware

Read the article by yourself on Heise: Kasperskys worry about malware and hit out at Microsoft. I would therefore like to see a kind of internet Interpol. Even the best security software will, on its own, soon no longer be … Continue reading

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Yay, indeed a nation down the drain …

A two-part video at Youtube ([1], [2]) – and more can be found under the search term “Jesus Camp” – gives a frightening insight into the insanity of evangelicals or Christian fundamentalists as a whole. I wonder whether any one … Continue reading

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