Category Archives: EN

Anything that does not fit into other categories …

Is that an official statement, LS?

I wonder whether this is an official statement on behalf of Lavasoft. Alright, there have been other statements from the PR spokesperson which are not much better, but this one is really frightening (emphasis mine): That being said, we are … Continue reading

Posted in EN, IT Security, Lava-watch, Software | Leave a comment

Three in a row … LS wins!

Just kidding. … but if you didn’t notice, that is the 3rd article in a row dealing with LS. Apparently “defiance” got a job at Lavasoft. Congratulations, “defiance”. However, “defiance”, I think your Swedish is fairly bad for a Swede … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | 1 Comment

They are begging for PR!

LS is begging for PR it seems. There you go … Strange though … who is that third face from the right half-hidden behind a glass? Looks like I know the person, but she looks completely different than on this … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | Leave a comment

Who would have thought it?

ME ME ME Until today in the afternoon there was a rating facility in the “Lavasoft Beta Community” which was even used by some users of the community. The latest rating for me I was aware of was 5 out … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | Leave a comment

Too sad … cannot beta-test my “favorite” application

When trying to register for the public beta of Ad-Aware 2007 I was amazed the server actually told me … quote: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /downloads/data/www/htdocs/lavasoft/public_html/support/securitycenter/config_beta_application.php on line 3 Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for user ‘www’@’localhost’ … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | 6 Comments

Updates in the IDA SDK 5.1 …

Since it is always exciting to find new features, I thought it would be good to put up a list of the changes introduced into the IDA SDK since version 5.0! This should allow all plugin writers to get a … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Programming, Reversing, Software | Tagged | Leave a comment

American spelling only, please!

Today I had a good laugh when I visited this page and the accompanying list of rules (or “commandments” :mrgreen:). Despite the bias in this so-called “encyclopedia” whose only purpose is to replace the oh-so-biased Wikipedia there are some really … Continue reading

Posted in /dev/null, Thoughts | 3 Comments

Where else in the world? (#2) …

Where else in the world would you find web addresses such as myip.is or pen.is … if not in Iceland … It must be the Brennivin which causes this 😉 // Oliver PS: Intentionally not linked.

Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland | Leave a comment

Good point(s)

Microsoft Virtualization Licensing and Distribution Terms … from the competitor’s perspective. // Oliver

Posted in EN, IT Security, Software, Thoughts | Leave a comment

Eeek, a subtle bug in beta 6 of DDKBUILD.CMD

Sorry fellows, please bear with me. The last version of the DDKBUILD.CMD script misbehaves if you set a variable inside the pre/post-build scripts and expect that variable to propagate beyond the script’s execution. Thanks to my colleague Kristmundur here at … Continue reading

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming | Leave a comment

Please keep foolin’ us – we like it, thanks :)

Last night I commented on the chauffeur of LS and still he didn’t make it into the “hall of fame” of LS’ management as logistics manager. I am one of the lucky ones to know his name and how he … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | Leave a comment

Where else in the world? …

Where else in the world are all Police motorbikes from Harley Davidson? … must be Iceland again! But for something more serious which fits well under the same heading. A blogger in Egypt has received a prison sentence for: “inciting … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Thoughts | Leave a comment

DDKBUILD.CMD updated (v7.0 Beta 6)

Thanks to feedback from some users, several bugs could be fixed. The two worst were: Build scripts failed with relative pathes Return code of the script was wrong Also I took the chance to implement some minor changes in how … Continue reading

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN | Leave a comment

Find the missing manager …

In their press announcement Lavasoft writes: The person that is referred to as the company’s chauffeur is the logistics manager of Lavasoft. … now all dictionaries I checked draw a direct connection between the terms “management” and “manager”. Am I … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | Leave a comment

NT Shell Scripts vs. Batch Scripts

Yesterday I posted a script in the F-Prot support forum. Many people think that .cmd files (such as DDKBUILD.CMD) are no more than renamed batch files. The trick employed in the posted script would not be possible using normal batch … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Programming | 2 Comments

IDA 5.1 and Virtual PC 2007 released

Finally IDA 5.1 and Virtual PC 2007 have been released. I wrote about IDA during the beta-phase and I promise to write some more stuff (probably) the next weekend. Virtual PC 2007, just like its predecessor Virtual PC 2004, is … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Reversing, Software | Tagged | 2 Comments

Some knew it, others found out recently.

Since Corrine put it up so nicely I am not going to add anything for now. Maybe later. LS has finally trouble with the tax authorities. My Swedish is not good enough to translate it ad-hoc and I also lack … Continue reading

Posted in EN, Lava-watch | 5 Comments

Fairness, where fairness is due

In this article back in November 2006 I complained about the way the security flaw was reported. This was apparently fixed. So in I think it is only fair to publish that fact here as well. My apologies for the … Continue reading

Posted in EN, IT Security, Software | Leave a comment

Bugfix release 1.1.1a for DDKWizard

Only some cosmetic changes and one real bugfix, of a bug that would cause confusion for users, were made. The bugfix concerns the Win32DLL project type. The 1.1.1 release did not have the line DLLENTRY=DllMain which was supposed to be … Continue reading

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming | Leave a comment

Eeek, the WDK build introduced a nasty change in behavior …

Today I noticed something very unpleasant when I tried to build a project that was initially created with DDKWizard with the WDK instead of the WNET DDK. Only one .rc file is allowed per directory. You may however include one … Continue reading

Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming | Leave a comment