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Category: XP
This is a bad one if you are running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 with Internet Explorer. If you are running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 then you are not affected
The bad part about this is that all it takes for you is to visit a bad site. If you are using Chrome (like me), FireFox or Safari then you are not affected by this. Microsoft really should redesign IE from scratch and get rid of all that ActiveX baggage/nonsense, it is not worth it, it only causes troubles. Almost every IE vulnerability is ActiveX based.
Mitigating Fa...
This week I bought a new netbook. The Acer Aspire One 751h (what's in a name). It's an amazing little machine, but I guess everything is amazing at my age I can still remember things like the Commodore 64 and the first x86.
Standard, it only comes with 1Gb of RAM but it supports a maximum of 2GB so I o...
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