Category Archives: EN

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Earn a lot of money now! Your opportunity for x-mas!!!

Posted on 2006-12-18 by Oliver

Since I have no time to take the chance and make the big money I’d advise my readers to have a look into the following scam I got today. If you want to contact Mr. Atwood don’t hesitate to contact … Continue reading →

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Death penalty took too long. Consequences? Yap!

Posted on 2006-12-17 by Oliver

The civilized world has shown its superiority again in the reactions after the execution of Angel Diaz by lethal injection in Florida took too long. Instead of finally removing the blemish from the US constitution by abolishing the death penalty … Continue reading →

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Early x-mas present: DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-12-16 by Oliver

As a kind of early x-mas present to the driver community, I have updated DDKWizard again. The new version is 1.0.3. Go and grab your copy at the DDKWizard website. What’s new? Three things have been changed or added: Creation … Continue reading →

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Fixed a minor glitch in ddkbuild.cmd

Posted on 2006-12-13 by Oliver

Today I fixed a glitch in OSR’s ddkbuild.cmd which would cause WDF builds to fail. Grab your fresh copy at the DDKWizard website or OSR. The version should be 7.0beta4a. If it is not, check back later since OSR should … Continue reading →

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Violating GPL to make the big money …

Posted on 2006-12-01 by Oliver

What would you think of a company that is presenting its new product which is somewhat innovative, but the product is based on OpenSource software and the company does not care about the OpenSource licenses of the used components? As … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard updated

Posted on 2006-11-26 by Oliver

There is a new version (1.0.2) of DDKWizard available. Go and grab your copy at the DDKWizard website. What’s new? Three things have been changed or added: Option to create PREfast configurations as well. The Windows 2003 and Longhorn/Vista DDK … Continue reading →

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Marketing for security companies now via Secunia!

Posted on 2006-11-19 by Oliver

<sarcasm> A great new opportunity for IT security companies which sell products to detect bugs in software automatically (static analysis) – report some vulnerabilities after running your program on a bunch of software applications and feature your own product in … Continue reading →

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Are you a developer reading my blog?

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Oliver

If you are a developer and have not yet heard of WinDirStat, please check it out first. Then if you like it and can imagine to write a plugin for it, give me some feedback at this blog article. Thanks. … Continue reading →

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Article: “How Two Hours Can Waste Two Weeks”

Posted on 2006-11-14 by Oliver

Over at Agile Advice, you can find a very nice blog article from the perspective of a development manager. I can tell that much: at my former company the PM (same person as DM in this case) did not take … Continue reading →

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Redpill getting colorless?

Posted on 2006-11-05 by Oliver

Although I had posted this already at the malware research forum and received little feedback, I decided to prepare a brief research paper about this topic and post it here. The topic is that the Redpill approach by Joanna Rutkowska … Continue reading →

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Cool: Lavasoft blog cleaned … (update #1)

Posted on 2006-10-27 by Oliver

Hi fellows, today I recognized that LS has removed all stuff from the Lavasoft blog. Interestingly all of my blog entries (e.g. this one) have been cleaned up including the one to which I am referring here. Surely just a … Continue reading →

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A “rogue state” commits its first nuclear test …

Posted on 2006-10-09 by Oliver

North Korea committed its first nuclear weopons test today. Oops, Mr. Bush junior, what now? Invade them or not? It’s a hard decision since the lifes of many US-Americans could be endangered – a horrible situation given the fact that … Continue reading →

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So IE7 is coming. Who cares anyway?

Posted on 2006-10-08 by Oliver

IE7 is coming. But who cares? This company has given a sh*t on standards for the last 10 years, now all of us are supposed to fix our websites again just because they finally found out that there is a … Continue reading →

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Greylisting works amazingly well for me …

Posted on 2006-10-08 by Oliver

Yesterday I wrote a short comment about the Spamhouse case. Spamhouse is indeed very important as an antispam blacklist. However, for my server I can only state that since I moved to it (previously my domains were hosted together with … Continue reading →

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Interesting view on the Spamhouse case …

Posted on 2006-10-07 by Oliver

… many people are blaming the judge in the US for Spamhouse’s problems. However, here is a different view on the case. If you are not familiar. An US-based company has sued UK-based Spamhouse – well-known antispam fighters – because … Continue reading →

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Using DDKWizard to create driver projects

Posted on 2006-10-02 by Oliver

Today I released a tool with the name DDKWizard. But before telling you some details let me rant about these other so-called “DDKWizards” a bit :mrgreen:. Let’s take this one first – it will create a project that lets you … Continue reading →

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That’s it …

Posted on 2006-09-01 by Oliver

Starting today, I am finally no more an employee of Lavasoft. This is a good and final answer to my question raised during the long period of uncertainty caused by Ms. X (see the linked article). If someone is interested, … Continue reading →

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Spammers stupid like toast bread

Posted on 2006-08-30 by Oliver

Obviously spammers try to get the biggest effect without caring for success. This is why greylisting works so great, I think. I still get daily requests to the sendmail CGI script which is no more vulnerable and turns down all … Continue reading →

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Interesting new forensic tool

Posted on 2006-08-29 by Oliver

Today the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) announced a new tool named LiveView on the forensics mailing list at security focus. This tools looks really promising in that it claims to provide a way to create … Continue reading →

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The offline time …

Posted on 2006-08-28 by Oliver

Some of my readers may have recognized the offline time during the evening (CET+DST), so here comes a brief explanation for it. I had previously installed one of the 2.1 nightlies of WordPress and was just “downgrading” back to the … Continue reading →

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