Archive for July, 2007

More Ransomware seen in wild

July 25, 2007

Ransomware: software that encrypts your data, and then charges you for the decryption key. More and more of these trojan are creaping onto the internet recently.
PandaLabs points out that this is not the first time such a Trojan has made the rounds, citing PGPCoder as having a “long record on the ransomware scene.” Ransom.A is [...]

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World’s Fastest Broadband Connection — 40 Gbps

July 18, 2007

A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been given a scorching 40 Gbps internet connection — the fastest residential connection anywhere in the world. Sigbritt Löthberg is the mother of Swedish internet guru Peter Löthberg, who is using his mother to prove that fiber networks can deliver a cost-effective, ultra-fast connection. Sigbritt, who [...]

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Auto Logon to Outlook with Hosted Exchange

July 6, 2007

If you are fed up typing in your password everytime you open Outlook you might like this utility.
Simple run it and enter your password for the first time and it will start Outlook and log you in.
Put it on your desktop and replace your Outlook icon.
I’ll post the source code after some testing. Tested [...]

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Enabling Web Services for Testing outside of the Localhost

July 5, 2007

In some circumstances, you may need to test .NET web services outside of the localhost, but via the browser. By default, this is disabled in the machine.config. If you were to attempt to browse to a service from a different PC or to access a service under a host name, you’d receive a message stating: [...]

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