Many sites use glassy buttons. Many tutorials try to explain how to build them. It's detailed work using layers and the like but you don't have to go … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
What’s WOT?
Web of Trust is a community-based surfing tool that uses a peer-based rating system. The rating system is implemented as a browser add-on and the … [Read more...]
What Did You Do to FILExt?
Back when Microsoft was testing Windows XP Computer Knowledge had a single page of file extension listings. Many others had such lists as well but the … [Read more...]
Malware and Child Porn
Do you use non-secure file sharing? Do you look for sites where you can find ways of playing games without paying for them? Download and use software … [Read more...]
Helpful? Hardly!
[Originally published 11/18/2009] The AARP has published an interesting article about a new scam. It's yet another social engineering scheme designed … [Read more...]
What are Cookies?
Some people are concerned that web servers have the power to write to their local hard disk without their knowing about it. The information written is … [Read more...]
What is a Scan Code?
In the keyboard are little switches. When you press a key one of the switches is activated and when you release that key the switch is activated … [Read more...]
What is File Compression?
Introduction File compression is commonly used when sending a file from one computer to another over a connection that has limited bandwidth. The … [Read more...]
What is goog-malware-shavar?
If you happen to look in firewall logs or perhaps browse with Fiddler running [Fiddler is a transparent proxy that automatically adds itself to the … [Read more...]
Beware Spambots
Hi spambots! By visiting this page and harvesting the links on it you will next be visiting a honeypot page where you will havest an E-mail address … [Read more...]