Category Archives: Software

Gutsy Gibbon again

Posted on 2007-11-04 by Oliver

A very good walkthrough to get parts of the Pavilion dv6xxx series running with Gutsy Gibbon or Feisty Fawn

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Let me get this straight: DDKWizard uses DDKBUILD (and hence uses DDK/WDK build.exe)

Posted on 2007-11-04 by Oliver

Today, searching for references to DDKWizard, I found that several people have posted misleading information in response to others recommending DDKWizard. For the most part they are recommending to use the DDK/WDK build environment. Bravo. That’s just what DDKWizard does, … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Posted on 2007-11-04 by Oliver

After purchasing a new notebook, a friend convinced me to test Ubuntu on it. Since I am a Debian fan and Ubuntu is based on Debian, he didn’t have a hard time convincing me. So after figuring out the correct … Continue reading →

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Congratulations, Remko!

Posted on 2007-10-30 by Oliver

Remko, fellow developer and friend through the common ties to an OSS project, has opened his own website and blog. Take a look. I find the articles up to now most enjoyable. Especially the programming-related stuff 😉 // Oliver

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Ach Nero, was ist nur aus dir geworden

Posted on 2007-10-26 by Oliver

Seit Version 3 war ich bei Nero Burning ROM als Kunde dabei und seit Version 7 graust es mir vor einem Upgrade. Warum nur hat der Hersteller diesen Irrweg eingeschlagen und packt allen Mist mit dazu? Schlimmer noch, seit Version … Continue reading →

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Let’s pimp ‘newvserver’

Posted on 2007-10-21 by Oliver

newvserver is a truly convenient script to create a new vserver and have it largely preconfigured. Too sad it lacks the necessary flexibility … you think? Think twice. Bash gives newvserver the flexibility that you need! Alright, so you figured … Continue reading →

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The day we put Windows under GPL

Posted on 2007-10-03 by Oliver

A few weeks ago some people were trying to convince me (but they didn’t manage to) that any program that loads a library (i.e. binary) which is under GPL has to be under GPL automatically as well. Now, this viral … Continue reading →

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Hallo aus Wien

Posted on 2007-09-20 by Oliver

Einige werden es bereits aus privaten Konversationen wissen, der Rest weiß es eben jetzt … ich halte mich als einer von sieben Vertretern von FRISK Software in Wien bei der Virus Bulletin Konferenz 2007 auf. Hier trifft man nette Leute … Continue reading →

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Getting the SIDT base address with Delphi

Posted on 2007-09-13 by Oliver

function GetSIDTBaseAddress: DWORD; assembler; asm sub esp, 8 // create stack frame sidt qword ptr [esp] mov eax, dword ptr [esp+2] // write into EAX for return value add esp, 8 // clean up stack end; … or if the … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD.CMD fix for RC2 (makes RC3)

Posted on 2007-09-12 by Oliver

Hey. For those among you, who have actually updated to RC2, here is a little fix, if you like manual patchwork. If you prefer the easy way, just download RC3 here. Apologies! This fix is yet another issue that can … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard 1.1.2 released

Posted on 2007-09-08 by Oliver

It has been almost half a year since DDKWizard got updated last time. But now it’s time for an update. Some accumulated reports of glitches and issues – especially those that bugged me most in daily use – got me … Continue reading →

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DDKBUILD release candidate 2 (update #1)

Posted on 2007-09-06 by Oliver

This release fixes minor issues found to cause DDKBUILD.CMD to fail under certain conditions, especially when either the DDK/WDK or the project was located in a folder that contained spaces or that had long (folder/file) names without spaces. One common … Continue reading →

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Geil!

Posted on 2007-09-05 by Oliver

Habe soeben die zweite SpeedCommander 12 Betaversion angetestet und muß sagen, daß die Benutzbarkeit weiter zugenommen hat. Die auch mit Vista eingeführte, sogenannte “Brotkrumen-Navigation” ist der der Hammer – und natürlich auch für mich als XP-Anwender verfügbar. Meine weiteren persönlichen … Continue reading →

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Joanna Rutkowska gets serious ;)

Posted on 2007-08-02 by Oliver

She and a partner, Alexander Tereshkin, have published the source to BluePill, or rather a rewrite called New BluePill (NBP), since Rutkowska’s previous employer owns the rights to the original one: http://www.bluepillproject.org The source is a little flawed, at least … Continue reading →

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Confession of a Windows developer

Posted on 2007-08-02 by Oliver

… I’ve been a Debian fan for a while and after managing different machines as well as the server on which this blog runs, it’s only natural that I installed Debian on my primary machine now as secondary operating system. … Continue reading →

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Gute Neuigkeiten

Posted on 2007-07-27 by Oliver

Heise meldet: unter dem Titel “GDatas Antivirenlösungen für Unternehmen ohne Kaspersky-Scanner” … “[…] Stattdessen setzen die Produkte für Unternehmen in den aktuellen Versionen auf die F-Prot-Engine von Frisk […]”. Ich wußte es ja schon ein Weilchen, aber da es jetzt … Continue reading →

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No it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke

Posted on 2007-07-04 by Oliver

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?

Posted on 2007-07-04 by Oliver

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.

Posted on 2007-07-03 by Oliver

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???

Posted on 2007-06-30 by Oliver

… 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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