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One way I stay protected from bad sites is that I use a modified host file. In Vista and Windows 7 you cannot just open the file in notepad and save it anymore, you will get an error. Someone had this happen at work on Windows Server 2008 last week and just today someone asked about it in our forums here: Can't modify the host file on Windows 7
I decided to create a short little blog post explaining how you can modify this file.
If you open the host file in the following location C:\Windows\System32\d...
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.
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Today I wanted to download Adobe Reader 8 so I could install it on our computers. Apparently Adobe doesn’t want you to do this. You have two options, Agree to their distrubition agreement (dutch version, sorry). or download it one by one on each computer which is a waste of bandwidth.
Don’t they want firms to use it anymore? What is behind this decision? I don’t know.
In the end I did the distribution agreement. So they first send you a mail to verify you are human or a smart bot. A...
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