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Posts for December, 2005 - Click title to read

zero-day WMF exploit

If you don’t know about this yet, YOU’D BETTER GET ON YOUR TOES!! A new exploit in any variants of Windows ME, XP, 2003 has been discovered, where your computer can be infected JUST BY VIEWING WEBSITES (if you’re using IE). I’m not joking, you can check out http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/ for more details. To make it worse, there is NO PATCH available, which means ALL COMPUTERS are at risk.

EDIT Jan 8th: As of now, there is an official update from Microsoft. So go get it! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms06-001.mspx

Blessed Christmas

I’m already 4 days late! Better get it over with then. Blessed (Belated?) Christmas everyone and Happy Belated Birthday to EktoHamz/EktoBunny/Ionstorm/Ewe Jin…. <continued>

Speeding up XP a *little bit*

Is your windows lagging? Slow to shut down? Can’t afford that new computer upgrade? Well, here’s a fact – Windows XP comes bloated by default. Many things are running which most users don’t actually need. Here’s a basic tutorial to speed it up a bit.

Tired but sleepless

I can’t sleep… even though I’m tired.. I’ve been helping out in the church christmas play and have been working long hours trying to sort out the AV Section – PA, video, computer, lights, you name it. I’m basically all tired out. But I can’t sleep… I’ve got a slight stomach ache which is bothering [...]

Random halfterm update

Been MIA long enough for now. I am back, not sure with any more energy, but hey, I’m back. Update on my last halfterm at Millfield, and some other random things. Covering basically the obvious events of the term, mostly the Advent Concert.