MS has revealed ( http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/16/how-windows-10-achieves-its-compact-footprint/ ) that: W10 will take up to 6.6 GB less space Reinstall faster Will be easier to rid of crapware To achieve this will use “Wimboot” to decrease system file and app sizes To check if it can be used, the OS will check the RAM and other parameters of your machine before installation. To accomplish this, the files needed for recovery from failure...
Well, your cat’s name, or your birthday aren’t going to stand up well under a brute force attack. Actually, you can learn more about that attack type here and other types here . While there’s no “100% certain” way of protection, common sense, security software (updated), a good firewall, protection from “plug and play” devices like USB sticks and strong passwords for your accounts will do a good deal to help. Chrome has its own passwor...
Lots of improvements! Using it now and it's faster. Fixes/changes: Overhauled WebGL. It now properly supports depth textures, shadow mapping and glow shaders. Note that older operating systems or older/embedded video processors may be limited in their support of these features. Updated the ANGLE library to a much more current version. Removed the crash reporter code completely to improve overall browser responsiveness and operation. Please note that a necessary vic...
Gamers…this just in: You’re being targeted…this new CryptoLocker variant (only 8% of the code the same) encodes your gaming files and mods. “This crypto-ransomware variant has been getting distributed from a compromised web site that was redirecting the visitors to the Angler exploit kit by using a Flash clip. Bromium Labs notified the owner of the web site, but they haven’t responded. At the time of writing this blog, the website was still serving m...
Well, I can’t help but say, “Fine…BUT…” to this little gem in the ZDNet article : "While the audit won't cover every single corner of the codebase, we believe it will be a useful component of the broader efforts being undertaken to improve OpenSSL's engineering and security. This is a fairly large audit, so we expect the preliminary results to start coming out towards the beginning of the summer after we coordinate with the OpenSSL team." - Thomas Ritter, a princi...
If you thought that FREAK SSL/TLS security hole was only in programs using Apple’s SSL (old OpenSSL) – you’re wrong, and vulnerable. MS’s Secure Channel (SChannel) stack has it too. Great. FREAK allows mitm (man-in-the-middle) attacks thanks to mistakes made decades ago. “As new technologies emerge, and cryptography hardens, many simply add on new solutions without removing out-dated and vulnerable technologies. This effectively undermines the security model you are trying to bu...
Crapware, tool bars, malware, adware, browser hijackers, wrapped software… The decent sites try to alert you…the others? Switch around the buttons, make it look like a terms and conditions statement, put in ads, even APIs with who knows what functions in them…the latest trend? Pushing lookalike copies of Google Chrome with adware bundled directly in them! Who reads the fine print, even when you navigate through all the double negatives and obscuring language? So…the writer ...
Frequently there are “unwanted objects” in images we produce or in those we find on the internet to use in personal projects. Inpaint 6.2 is paid software designed to: Repair old photos Remove watermarks Delete unwanted people from photo Erasing wires and power lines Remove unwanted objects Digital Facial retouching Remove date stamps Erase wrinkles and skin blemishes Remove tourists from travel photos Fill black areas of a panorama Remove text or logo fr...
None other than Mary Jo Foley (she’s covered MS and computing for 30 years) has written to update her readers about Stardock’s Start 10 : “Start10 will allow users to add a classic or enhanced Start menu to Windows 10, and to access both desktop and Modern/Metro-Style apps from the Start menu. Start10 will enabled unified search for apps, settings and files and also provide a skinnable Start button. With the Start-menuless Windows 8, the need for a Start menu ...
We’ve discussed “wrapping” before…the inclusion of unwanted software/toolbars/search engine and home page switchers…and now in light of the Lenovo Superfish and PrivDog issues Google has upped protection from these gems in Chrome. “Two of the main sources for these bundled downloads are search engines and download portals. Search engines because of misleading ads and how they rank download sites, and download portals because many bundle offers with downloads automatically to...
More good news. Thanks to kryo, I went PrivDog hunting and lo and behold it fell into my lap - thanks to gHacks. PrivDog will install a self signed root certificate on your system enabling mitm attacks. So, here's the link with how to find if it's on your system...seems certain Comodo products shipped with it. Anyway, the test site for Superfish was giving "false positives"...and PrivDog seems to be the reason. The latest version of Comodo Dragon ships with Pri...
You can find part I here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/461686/page/1/#3524967 So, since that was published, Lenovo published a fix which you can find in the article part I. You might want to try anyone else’s fix in lieu of theirs…understandably. Lenovo’s products which they state may be affected: E-Series: E10-30 Flex-Series:Flex2 14, Flex2 15, Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D, Flex2 14 (BTM), Flex2 15 (BTM), Flex 10 G-Series: G410, G510, G40-70, G40-3...
Humor aside, these are great tutorials…from basic to pretty complex. I favor systematic approaches to learning…as it’s done on creativeLive – you’ll find that links to Photoshop Week, which starts in two days…free registrations, wonderful teachers. But sometimes you just wish to learn “something new” or hear the name of a certain effects or tool…well… Here are 122 Photoshop tutorials which are done very well in...
You should be warned that it ships with crapware (as many do to increase OEM profits)…but it also ships with Superfish on it. Superfish is adware which ‘sees’ the images on the webpages you visit and then offers ads compatible with them…for instance, if you look for a new table, it will try to insert ads with tables in them to “help” you. SO you say, All the sights I look at are https protected. Sad news: Superfish also installs a root certificate in your Windows certifica...
Mark Nottingham (head of the IETF Group – Internet Engineering Task Force) has announced that HTTP/2 has been completed…and Google Chrome is embracing it, dumping SPDY (in 2016). The whole web won’t convert to HTTP/2 all at once, though. Also, Nottingham said in 2014: “HTTP/2 isn’t magic Web performance pixie dust; you can’t drop it in and expect your page load times to decrease by 50%.” Once server admins get the hang of HTTP/2, however, it should boost web performance.” ...