Technical Observation

This is just a quick update since I'm a little pushed for time, but has anyone read the open letter sent out by Steve Jobs?.

If you have you wood have spotted that the letter says Adobe Flash is blocked from the Ipod Touch, iPhone and iPad due to flash being developed for the mouse and PC era, well a touch screen works just as well, however they also say its because its proprietary peice of software because the software is solely under the control of Adobe.

BUT, for another matter each and every Ipod Touch, iPhone and iPad are using software that is solely under the control of Apple, its of course iTunes.

When Apple let users add there own music Without iTunes that will be the day

I will update this more later

All the best

Dan

Fake anti-virus software

All to common nowadays is the emergence of Fake anti-virus software, you know the kind I'm on about. That stuff that appears when you click the link of what looks like a perfectly innocent website and before you know it your getting repeated alerts saying your system is compromised and needs to scan, or it attempts to show you a Explorer window and pretend its scanning.

Examples of these are as such.

You have the common Javascript based alert which when you click ok takes you to a page where you can input your details (For harvesting, (this is where the criminals can take your details and pose as you)). After which a download occurs and implants malicious code into your system, often enough this malicious software scans for credit card details, passwords and other valuable information.

The next example is even easier to spot it bases itself upon the XP interface and attempts to fool you into downloading the software, something I'm sure all Vista and 7 users would easily be able to distinguish

Because? the XP fake antivirus page looks like this:
http://www.tdaxp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/fake_antivirus_antimalwarescanner-480x422.png In its attempt to fool you.

However Windows 7 looks like this:
http://homepage.mac.com/uomoragno/RSSMac.info/files/windows7desk.png

So I implore all readers, if you come across the XP looking screen and you have Vista or 7, open your task manager (CTRL+Alt+Del) and close Internet Explorer, Chrome, whatever you use) Don't worry about anything you haven't saved.. A lost email is no issue compared to a infected computer.

Anyways
All the best for now,
Dan

Xp left Unpatched!, Sims 2 (PC) Glitch

I realise its been a fair while since I last updated here so here we go.

Recently there has been a spate of RootKits (Software that buries deep in the system to evade detection) attacking the Windows XP operating system, a patch is available for it but due to the nature of the RootKit, the installer for the patch will quit before it can complete the install, so its therefore ineffective.

The best method to resolve this is to get a copy of any of the below:
AVG Anti-Virus, Avira, McAfee, Panda, Kaspersky.

Run any of them and you should be able to fix the issue with the rootkit.

As for the Sims 2 glitch, if you use the MoveObjects cheat your are able to move the Sim anywhere at anytime, however if you move the sim whilst they are using the toilet you are able to somehow make the sim walk on walls!

Anyways thats all for now
take care
Dan.

Windows 7: The Verdict

So 7 arrived and I've installed it on my machine, it took just 20 minutes to install (No joke!!). Since its been installed I've been scouting around to see how it works and what the major changes are to the system.

Can't say that I found many changes, the arcitecture seems to be built around the XP system with Vista's graphics.

The performance of 7 on here is fantastic, on 1GB of RAM and a Intel Core 2 Duo processor it works relativly well, 59 seconds to boot from pressing the on button, and 22 seconds to shutdown (Not accounting for updates to be configured). Also these are the notes I have collected from the task manager.

Vista:

CPU Usage: 40 - 50 (Percent %)

Physical Usage: 70-80 (Percent %)


7:

CPU Usage: 0-20%
Physical Usage: 45 - When totally idle
Physical Usage: 56 - When running 2 programs

So after 3 days of testing it, I find 7 to be a good OS, its so far living up to its hype on the market, and I look forward to using it more.

However, if you plan on using the 32-bit version/system, Make sure you have atleast 2GB of RAM in your system, and for 64-bit versions/systems, make sure you have atleast 4GB of RAM, this will ensure it will run smoothly and perform to your expectations.

This is all for now.

All the best,

Dan