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McAfee Restarts/Reboots/Shutdowns Windows XP FIX

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Here is a solution on how to fix the latest McAfee incident. The latest update causes Windows XP user’s computers to shutdown, or reboot. The following steps are courtesy of CNET.

Note: We recommend using a different Antivirus such as Kaspersky, Avira, or Nod32.

# Step 1: Open a command prompt: Start menu, Run, then type cmd and hit Enter Step 2: Type shutdown -a, which will prevent the shutdown from occurring McAfee has revealed two fixes for the problem. Each one requires multiple steps, and can be confusing. If you’re not comfortable with advanced computer fixes, you should get help with this.



iPad Jailbroken Already Using Old Security Flaw

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That’s right guys, the Apple iPad has already been jailbroken! Don’t know what jailbreaking is? Well, to put it simply, it allows apps not authorized by Apple to run on the iPod Touch, iPhone, or, in this case, the iPad. This is usually done to run homebrew applications or games, and so forth.

A security flaw that existed in the iPhone 3.1.3 operating system (OS) was used that allowed for root access to be obtained in order to run these unauthorized apps. Expect updates that will close this hole in the near future!

Source: Ars Technica



Reverse-Engineering a Trojan

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This one was kinda interesting for me– while I have no experience cutting open a trojan and looking at its code (or looking at any executable’s code), I’ve had this particular trojan before. Yeah. I was a sucker that bought one of those nifty Energizer USB chargers.

If you remember earlier this month, Energizer, and for that matter the US CERT, found the trojan in the charger, which had been on sale for some THREE YEARS NOW and warned the public of it.

This trojan has been gathering data for years now. Fuck if we didn’t find it sooner.

See the original article here.



Free Year of Lavasoft Ad-Aware Plus 8.2 Commercial Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus

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You can get a free year of Lavasoft Ad-Aware Plus 8.2 commercial anti-spyware and anti-virus by going Here. Download it and have a very nice time surfing the net more securely.



GoDaddy Stops Registering Domains in World’s Biggest Emerging Market

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Today, in a Congressional testimony, senior executives from GoDaddy.com announced they would stop registering domain names in China, effectively ceasing their entire business operations in the country. This isn’t due to just riding on Google’s happy internet freedom bandwagon either; GoDaddy was recently handed new regulations to follow by the Chinese government meant to create clearly identifiable profiles of people registering domains by the service.




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