There are some fake music files showing up on sharing networks. The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims.
FAKE FILE TITLES
- girls aloud st trinnians.mp3
- changing times earth wind .mp3
- heartbroken fast t2 ft jodie.mp3
- meet bambi in kings harem.mp3
- paralyized by you.mp3
- pull over levert.mp3
When you try and play the file you end up with a ton of malware.
More details on BBC News. Be careful out there.
May 8th, 2008 | Posted in Security, Virus | No Comments
The IE Blog has some information regarding things to watch out for when installing XP SP 3 over different versions of IE.
Internet Explorer 6 Users
XPSP3 will continue to ship with IE6 and contains a roll-up of the latest security updates for IE6. If you are still running Internet Explorer 6, then XPSP3 will be offered to you via Windows Update as a high priority update. You can safely install XPSP3 and will have an updated version of IE6 with all your personal preferences, such as home pages and favorites, still intact.
Internet Explorer 7 Users
If you are currently running IE7 on XPSP2, Windows Update will offer you XPSP3 as a high priority update. If you choose to install XPSP3, Internet Explorer 7 will remain on your system after the install is complete. Your preferences will be retained. However, you will no longer be able to uninstall IE7. If you go to Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs, the Remove option will be grayed out.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Users
Installing IE8 Beta1 on Windows XP SP3 is fully supported, so go ahead and upgrade your computers to XPSP3 and then install IE8 Beta 1 to try out our new features. You will be able to uninstall IE8 Beta 1 at any point to revert back to either IE7 or IE6 depending on what you were using before.
However, if you already have IE8 Beta 1 installed on XPSP2, Windows XP SP3 will not be offered to you via Windows Update. This is because after you update your system to XPSP3, you will no longer be able to uninstall IE8 Beta 1 and the Remove option will be grayed out under the Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. The reason is the same as in IE7 case described above. Since people are more likely to uninstall beta software, we strongly recommend uninstalling IE8 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Windows XP SP3 to eliminate any deployment issues and install IE8 Beta 1 after XPSP3 is on your machine.
Hat tip to Jon.
May 8th, 2008 | Posted in How-To, Internet Explorer, Security, Software, Windows, XP | No Comments
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Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up and what’s now.
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in LinkBlog | No Comments
Yesterday I had a problem where I needed to save an Excel file to wk4 format. We use Lotus Notes at work and sometimes when you need to import something is is best to save it in this format. When I tried to complete the save I received an error message that said “You are attempting to save a file that is blocked by your registry policy setting.”
Thankfully, one of my colleagues discovered Microsoft knowledge base article KB938810 that describes the changes that Microsoft made with Office 2003 Service Pack 3 and provides a process to let me save the documents as needed. There are some file types that are blocked from opening and some from saving.
By default, these file types are blocked because the parsing code that Office 2003 uses to open and save the file types is less secure. Therefore, opening and saving these file types may pose a risk to you.
So fixing the problem could pose a security risk. It is up to you to figure out how high of a risk that is for you or your company. For me, I only modified how Excel behaves and left the other security in place. To be really safe you could run the registry patch to let you save a file type then run the undo patch to set your security right back where it was. Be sure the read all of KP 938810 to understand what you changes you are making.
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Microsoft, Office, Security | No Comments
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In fact, sales of Blu-ray standalone players remain so low that NPD has not yet released actual numbers, for fear that it would be easy to identify individual retailers. The research group will start to give actual figures later this year.
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Definately worth looking at.
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NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in LinkBlog | No Comments
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Interesting Linux usability experiment. Love to see a Mac user on Windows or vise versa.
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This IBM Redpaper provides a strategic overview of the IBM® Chief Information Officer’s Technology Adoption Program (TAP) within the IBM Corporation. We also provide a detailed description of the process management framework that supports the program.
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April 30th, 2008 | Posted in LinkBlog | No Comments
I have posted recently about the Media Server I have built. The server holds many hours of music ripped from CD. Call me old school but I would much rather buy CDs and rip them myself. The media provides a back up should everything go south. Also, I get the most accurate sound quality from the encode rather than suffer the low quality of a purchased download. Also, no digital rights management to get in the way of moving the file off the server to my portable devices.
My favorite software for ripping CDs is Exact Audio Copy. This software is getting better and better over time. It allows the conversion to MP3 or lossless formats like FLAC. I rip all my music to high quality mp3s. True audiophiles will probably want FLAC but the thing is, FLAC isn’t everywhere yet. MP3 is much more portable. For example, I can play it on my computer, stream it to my media extender, put it on CD for the car stereo, put it on my Archos, etc.
To get started you need:
EAC-Exact Audio Copy
LAME encoder 3.97
There are great EAC guides at Hydrogen Audio Wiki
Follow the wiki page for the configuration wizard then see the screen shots below.
The screen shots below show how I have the various EAC options set. This helps get things set up quickly and if further info is needed, the Hydrogen Audio Wiki will provide the best resources. Click the image to enlarge.
EAC Menu - EAC Options (F9)
On the next screen I set the Naming Scheme to: %A\C%\N% - %T
This creates the file structure: Artist\CD Title\Track# - Song Title
Example: “Z:\Diana Krall\When I Look In Your Eyes\01 - Let’s Face The Music And Dance.mp3″
EAC Menu - Compression Options (F11)
The main setting here is the Command Line Options. Here is my command line:
-V2 –vbr-new –ta “%a” –tt “%t” –tg “%m” –tl “%g” –ty “%y” –tn “%n” %s %d
The bit rate doesn’t matter at that line overrides.
Enjoy your music!
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Audio, Media Server Project, mp3 | No Comments
