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• This Blog Has Moved!

  Introducing Intellectual Hedonism http://www.intellectualhedonism.com I will keep this blog for reference only. Please subscribe to my new blog. Posted Mar 21 2006, 04:53 PM by Carl Franklin with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: .NET Rocks!, Speaking events and conferences, INETA, VS.NET 2005, Sockets, VS.NET 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Security, User Interface, Music/Audio, Longhorn, Tablet PC, Pocket PC, Multimedia Production, podcasting, Mondays, Pwop Productions, Road Trip 2005, Hanselminutes, dnrTV

• Why I hired a genius

  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... Posted Aug 27 2005, 12:48 AM by Carl Franklin with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Sockets, Security

• Admin only while offline?

  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... Posted Jul 27 2004, 03:04 PM by Carl Franklin with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Security, Longhorn

• I love DPAPI

  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... Posted Mar 18 2004, 02:45 AM by Carl Franklin with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: VS.NET 2003, Security

• Update on hacked PC at home

  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... Posted Jan 15 2004, 12:00 AM by Carl Franklin with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Security

• Simple measures against a serious attack.

  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... Posted Dec 05 2003, 12:23 PM by Carl Franklin with | with 23 comment(s) Filed under: Security