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Browser Wars

Google homepage now also reads “”New! Download Chrome (BETA) – the new browser from Google”

The web browser with no chrome is Google’s fresh take on the browser. It does however have a chrome, but it doesn’t try to stand out and get in your way.
This browser has been built from scratch; the Google Chrome comic [...]

Escaping SQL injection attacks

Those nasty SQL Injection attacks have not stopped. They’ve probably just started!
If you’re still in the process of going through your SQL code and making sure it’s not susceptible to SQL injection attacks that means your websites are still wide open to the attack.
However not to worry, the Microsoft IIS team has come to the [...]

It’s Firefox Download Day

 

 
Firefox Download Day is here. Download Firefox 3 today! Help set a World Record and make history!

Vanishing Hard Disk Space?

Is your free disk space gradually vanishing after installing Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)?
If you have noticed this, check out the following locations on your hard drive
on Windows Vista:[installed drive]:\ProgramData\Symantec\Definitions\VirusDefs  
or on older Microsoft OS versions such as Windows XP Windows 2000:[installed drive]:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\VirusDefs
If it looks like this:

you may need to update your Symantec Endpoint Protection installation to [...]

Windows logging out immediately after logging in

Recently a friend of mine complained that he was unable to login into his PC. Windows kept logging him out just after validating the user name and password.In summary this is what happened (Windows XP Professional)-Booted up the PC. The Windows login screen appears without any problem.-Entered valid domain accounts/local accounts with and without administrative [...]

Google Virus Guard

The Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) website www.slt.lk has been infected with a Trojan Virus Trojan.Maliframe!html. If you don’t believe that the telecoms giant is compromised, here is a screen-shot showing the Trojan virus infected web page.
The risk level of this particular virus has been rated as a very low by Symantec, however considering the number of Internet users in [...]

All about the “Program too big to fit in memory” error and how to fix it.

Have you ever run command line programs that claimed to be “too big to fit in memory”? I have.
Recently when I ran the command line tool gacutil.exe (Global Assembly Cache Utility) to install a .NET assembly I came across a message saying “Program too big to fit in memory”. It was strange because the error [...]

DasBlog Fighting Comment Spam

I’ve been running the released version of DasBlog 1.9 [DasBlog 1.9.6264] from just about the time it was released (on the 264th day of 2006). It’s been more than six months and I finally do have my SLT ADSL connection, so I upgraded my blog to one of the more recent DasBlog daily builds.
One of the [...]

Shifting Google Gears

Google shifted gears to venture a little deeper into the desktop by launching Google Gears(Beta), an exciting and new open source project that will bring offline capabilities to web applications via a browser extension. Google Reader was the first to put this new technology into use with an offline mode.

“Google Gears builds on the web’s [...]

How to enable HTTP compression [IIS6]

Recently I had some time to look into the built-in HTTP compression abilities that IIS6 has. There seemed to be too much incorrect/misleading information floating around on this subject, especially about things like needing “Web Service Extension” and about dynamic compression not working without enabling static compression and so on, so this is me trying to [...]