Ask IE For Help, Get a Trojan
U.S.-based security firm Symantec has issued an advisory about the Phel Trojan, discovered on Wednesday, which infects PCs running Windows XP.
The Trojan infects the PCs when users call the Help controls in Internet Explorer. The Trojan spreads as an HTML file and attempts to exploit IE’s HTML Help Control Local Zone Security Restriction [...]
RISE EXEEM
In an anticipated net radio announcement the people who brought us the “universal BT source” announced what some had known for weeks, Exeem is not dead friends, In fact in this reporters humble opinion it is set to spark a revolution in p2p as we know it.
A week and a half ago the [...]
The BitTorrent Effect
“That was a bad move,” Bram Cohen tells me. We’re huddled over a table in his Bellevue, Washington, house playing a board game called Amazons. Cohen picked it up two weeks ago and has already mastered it. The 29-year-old programmer consumes logic puzzles at the same rate most of us buy magazines. Behind his desk [...]
The Shadow Internet
Just over a year ago, a hacker penetrated the corporate servers at Valve, the game company behind the popular first-person shooter Half-Life. He came away with a beta version of Half-Life 2. “We heard about it,” says 23-year-old Frank, a well-connected media pirate. “Everyone thought it would get bootlegged in Europe.” Instead, the hacker gave the [...]
Overpeer gets even more Dirty
It’s a given that the RIAA and MPAA, wholly owned by the record label cartel and movie studios, or contractors such as Overpeer, will leave no dirty trick unturned in their futile war against p2p and file sharers.
Now, they’re using files that look like regular songs or short videos in the Windows Media format to [...]
eBay to Retire Microsoft Passport Sign In and .NET Alerts
In late January, we will no longer support the ability for members to sign in to eBay through Microsoft Passport. This means that members currently using this service will have to sign in through eBay directly. Once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be [...]
Mute V0.4 – Anonymous P2P
MUTE V0.4 has been released.
The MUTE P2P Network is designed to protect your identity and privacy by using a virtual IP address plus routing packets through other nodes. It also encrypts connections to other nodes to prevent easy ISP or router sniffing that may be used to block it’s use.
Linux, Mac and Windows versions are [...]
MPAA sues LokiTorrent
LokiTorrent is yet another BitTorrent site to be targeted in the MPAA crush p2p, sue file sharers vendetta.
The Big Seven movie studios claim they’re being ruined by file sharing and that thousands of ancillary staff are suffering terrible hardships as a direct result and yet, at the same time, they’re reporting mind-boggling revenues. For [...]
Apple to drop sub-$500 Mac bomb at Expo
The new Mac, code-named Q88, will be part of the iMac family and is expected to sport a PowerPC G4 processor at a speed around 1.25GHz. The new Mac is said to be incredibly small and will be housed in a flat enclosure with a height similar to the 1.73 inches of Apple’s Xserve. [...]
