The North Carolina Senate has deliberated and its verdict is clear: You can pretty much do what you like with your Ford, so why not your printer cartridge? The Associated Press reported that the state House agreed Tuesday to Senate changes to a bill that would give printer owners the right to refill any printer … Read more
A bit more on that backdoor Trojan that made me think Citibank didn’t like me anymore: Symantec’s website says it’s a brand new version, and seems to only appear in a Citibank form. No wonder I couldn’t find it on Google. Symantec call it Backdoor.Berbew. Other names: Downloader-DI [McAfee] TrojanProxy.Win32.Webber.10 [KAV] Troj/Webber-A [Sophos] I thought everyone … Read more
Just when you thought there was nothing more to say about spam, someone goes and says something. This time it’s the turn of Harris Interactive, which has conducted two polls. (Neither seem to be on their website at the time of posting this.) Their conclusions? 80% of online adults (whatever that means) now favor … Read more
I got my first password stealing trojan yesterday. My, they’re good. I’ve never shopped at Citibank (sorry, Ditta) but for a moment I thought that maybe I had . This was what the email looked like: Dear sir, Thank you for your online application for a Citibank Home Equity Loan. In order to be … Read more
Electronic Arts Inc. has launched the 2004 version of NCAA Football 2004, the number two selling football game behind Madden NFL. It has 20 new mascots, over 150 new teams, new pre-game tunnel presentations, and an online competition for the PlayStation 2 version something called a “Talk in-game chat”. I have no idea how that … Read more