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So yesterday I was feeling a little to confident over the health of my system, and wouldn't you know - I got some spyware from some website. Did I have Microsoft Anti-Spyware installed? No. Why? I'm an idiot, that's why. All of a sudden I get a message...
I've been dealing a lot lately with running as with least-privilege, and it really sucks. Microsoft obviously did not write the Windows NT kernel with the idea in mind that when connected to the Internet all sorts of bad things can happen to you, so you...
If you went to DevDays 2004 then you know about DP-API. This is part of the CryptoAPI that didn't make it into the .NET Framework. The nice folks at Vertigo Software wrote a nifty VB.NET managed code wrapper around DPAPI because it's so dang hard to use...
Regarding my earlier post on being hacked, I finally found the devil causing the problem. C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\Fonts.hta This file was put in the fonts dir somehow, and it's a script that tries to write to the hosts file and change all search engine entries...
I was hacked. At home. On a cable modem. Using a NAT address. Some bastard hacked my hosts file and put in alternate IP addresses for google.com, yahoo.com, and a couple other domains. My machine? Windows XP Pro. All the latest security patches and service...
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