Category Archives: Software

We have done it all …

Posted on 2009-01-17 by Oliver

“Secure” deletion of some piece of data. Programs, whether commercial or free – such as Eraser – offer to overwrite the data several times according to “DoD standards” (referring to the US department of defense) and so on. A study … Continue reading →

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Zlob author leaves new year’s wishes in variant

Posted on 2009-01-15 by Oliver

As you can read here, the author of Zlob has once again hidden a message inside a variant. This time it’s about best wishes for the new year to the MS virus response team and future plans, so to speak. … Continue reading →

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Arrived 1.1

Posted on 2009-01-08 by Oliver

I updated the program Arrived to version 1.1. There is one important change in this version that breaks compatibility, but I am convinced there are rather few users anyway 😉 The change is to use CreateProcess() instead of ShellExecute(). That’s … Continue reading →

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My Subversion repositories …

Posted on 2008-12-26 by Oliver

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am opening up a few of my Subversion repositories. Others will remain completely private and even others will eventually follow in future. Check it out on vcs.assarbad.net. // Oliver

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AlljĂ€hrliche Killerspielejagd …

Posted on 2008-12-20 by Oliver

Es ist mal wieder kurz vor Weihnachten, was gĂ€be es also schöneres als Killerspiele verbieten zu wollen? Wie schon hier, hier und hier zu sehen war (man achte auch auf das jeweilige Datum), habe ich eine eindeutige Meinung zu Killerspielen … Continue reading →

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SchĂŒnemann will InternetzugĂ€nge effektiv abschaffen

Posted on 2008-12-16 by Oliver

Wie Heise berichtet, will der niedersĂ€chsische Innenminister (natĂŒrlich CDU) im Kampf gegen Kinderpornographie im Internet die Kunden von InternetzugĂ€ngen zwingen eine Filtersoftware zu installieren. Und einige meinen nur der verehrte Dr. SchĂ€uble sĂ€ĂŸe allein in der Fraktion der Verfassungsgegner. Obwohl … Continue reading →

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Wow, GCC is pretty patronizing …

Posted on 2008-12-15 by Oliver

Trying to compile the following code in GCC yields an error: #define __dbgprintf /##/ The error reads error: pasting “/” and “/” does not give a valid preprocessing token. As far as C99 is concerned, this should be perfectly valid … Continue reading →

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Arrived

Posted on 2008-12-11 by Oliver

… is the name of a small Win32 command line tool I wrote. It executes a command whenever a volume (e.g. USB memory stick, portable hard drive) gets connected to or disconnected from the machine. The particular use-case for which … Continue reading →

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Silly little C++ wrapper class

Posted on 2008-12-10 by Oliver

Did you ever have the same problem: if you want to compiler a Win32 program with UNICODE/_UNICODE defined, for some reason the argv vector does not contain a single proper argument?! This happens in particular in DDK/WDK projects. I was … Continue reading →

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For all IDA friends …

Posted on 2008-10-25 by Oliver

The fix to the memory sync problem in the debugger (5.3) has been fixed. You’ll need to upload your key to get the fix.

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Affordable code-signing certificates, no chance!

Posted on 2008-09-07 by Oliver

GlobalSign == relatively cheap code-signing certificates. Cool, I thought. Bullcrap! After attempting to apply for a code-signing certificate for use with Authenticode in kernel mode drivers and other Windows binaries and then calling them on the phone I learnt that … Continue reading →

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Subversion over SSH using specific identity

Posted on 2008-09-01 by Oliver

Everyone knows how to allow one particular system account to be shared among multiple SVN users and who doesn’t can have a look here. However, I had a somewhat inverted situation yesterday, and although the solution turned out to be … Continue reading →

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“But disk space is cheap”

Posted on 2008-08-09 by Oliver

Often you hear people make this statement if someone dares to complain about the disk space requirements of some software. This is the usual response in such a case. But first of all, even though it is cheap, it requires … Continue reading →

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“etch-and-a-half”, Debian Etch R4 released

Posted on 2008-07-29 by Oliver

If you can, use apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade in some kind of sandbox (“lab-conditions”). For me everything went smooth. // Oliver

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Anti-phishing techniques – or how to defeat the purpose of IDNs

Posted on 2008-07-26 by Oliver

International Domain Names (IDNs) are attractive. They allow people to express themselves in the multitude of languages which this planet has to offer. However, they also allow scammers and phishers to trick you into believing a particular domain name is … Continue reading →

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CreateRemoteThread, Vista and separate sessions

Posted on 2008-07-23 by Oliver

Recently I’ve hit a wall during development. I had written a nice workaround for a problem, based on code injection. In fact the code wasn’t injected by loading a DLL but instead by loading relocatable (32bit) code of less than … Continue reading →

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Windows in XEN domU on laptop, using screen and VGA?

Posted on 2008-07-21 by Oliver

Does anyone among my readers have a clue whether or not it is possible to set up XEN in a way so it will pass control over the screen to a domU to which I want to assign it? It … Continue reading →

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Two weeks after beta: IDA Pro 5.3 released

Posted on 2008-07-17 by Oliver

Those who haven’t heard the news, get your update now. Here’s a link to the update-request page. NB: According to Ilfak, the debugger has seen major improvements. // Oliver PS: Don’t forget to get the new SDK and the support … Continue reading →

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Ziemlich effektiv

Posted on 2008-07-11 by Oliver

Der “Patch” den ich fĂŒr mein GMX-Konto benutze hat sich als ziemlich effektiv herausgestellt. Alle 10min loggt sich mein Perlskript (es benutzt Mail::IMAPClient via SSL) bei GMX ein und sortiert alle Ham-Mails aus dem Spamverdacht in den entsprechenden Unterordner. Seitdem … Continue reading →

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Saving the world?

Posted on 2008-07-10 by Oliver

Programs of a new type have been created by different companies recently. The first I am aware of was developed in 2006 and violated the GPL back then. More of them seem to be offered all the time. These programs … Continue reading →

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