Long time no update

Ok so since i last updated there has been a few changes with the technology world; Apple have had a mixed reception of the new iPhone 4 because of a silly antenna issue within the device, which ultimately causes the phone to lose signal and since that have said they will provide all users with a FREE case which apparently stops the users hand causing this problem.

My Thoughts? completely stupid design on behalf of Apple, then again they did just effectivly go and add a new camera to it and give it a metallic casing.. Oh dear? could metal be doing the antenna issue?? hmm, ok thats a thought isn't it.

In other news my Xbox 360 has seemingly managed to scratch another one of my games.
(GTA IV Episodes of Liberty City), and from what I can gather its also losing some of my game saves. But hey I don't mind wasting 19 hours to redo the whole GTA4 game again. :)

No matter, i look forward to the drop in price for the Microsoft Kinect product, currently £129.99 in the UK, and am now looking forward to the release of Halo: Reach, and the new Guitar Hero Game. (Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock)

Anyways, thanks for tuning in this week.
All the best to the readers.
Dan.

Facebook login fix?

It seems to me now, that the cause of the Facebook login issue, is to do with a cookie setting on the system.

Astonishingly the fix Facebook themselves give is supposed to work with IE7 and often IE8, it doesn't work with IE8, even deleting the cookies and starting afresh with them doesn't work.
The fix I've found is to completely wipe the OS on the machine and re-install it, And for now it seems to have worked, I'm still logged in and happy with the result.

All for now
Dan.

XP Help and Support Security Vulnerability

XP's Help and Support system has come under attack from hackers, seemingly from the use of Remote support.

Currently the exploit allows certain virus's and trojans to enter the system, currently those known are;


Trojan:Win32/Swrort.A
TrojanDownloader:Win32/Obitel.gen!A
Spammer:Win32/Tedroo.AB
Trojan:Win32/Oficla.M
TrojanSpy:Win32/Neetro.A
Virus:JS/Decdec.A

ProtectionIn addition to the mitigations listed in the advisory, customers using Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Windows Live OneCare, the Forefront Threat Management Gateway, and the Windows Live Safety Platform have had coverage for this exploit since June 10th through the following two antimalware signatures:

Exploit:Win32/CVE-2010-1885.A
Exploit:Win32/CVE-2010-1885.gen

Signature builds 1.83.1561 and later contain both signatures.
Payloads are detected by the signatures mentioned above.

The above in italics is a quote directly from Microsoft Malware Protection Center, Threat Research & Response Blog


Hope none of you out there get caught out by this.

All the best
Dan