A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I just read an article about a bug found in Windows XP.
Apparently the vulnerability involves the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files (when you’re using Internet Explorer, though anyone with any sense stopped doing that long ago) and can be triggered by pressing F1 after visiting a malicious Web site that uses [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads When somebody asks me what I want for Christmas, the first thing that I think of is almost inevitably software. The problem with that is that, as I suppose is to be expected, the system requirements for most software is setting the bar higher and higher these days.
Think about it. [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve had a problem many times when using CamStudio to make screen captures that when I load the resulting video clip into Sony Vegas that the sound is very low. Usually too low to even hear. Even doing the obvious and turning up the volume on the audio track [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads It’s no secret that I’m not normally one to use “paid for” anti-virus programs as long as there are perfectly good free versions around for home use. And then, once I do find one that works to my satisfaction I’ll stay with it until it becomes obvious that there is [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I know that people are always being told that it’s important to have antivirus software and to keep it up to date and working but it’s not too often that I see examples of why this is so.
I had a first hand demonstration of not only why it’s a good idea [...]