Sunday, July 25, 2004

CWS: Welcome to Hell -- 12:09 pm CST, Update by The Master

I met one of the most insidious little parasites of the computer world on Friday. It is called CoolWebSearch. This thing is absolutely awful. It infects your IE browser, turning it into an ad machine for porn and other spammed ad-crap. Here's a couple tips for anyone with this bug:

• If you're running Linux or BSD, you have no problems. Maybe this is a good reason to switch?
• If you're running Internet Explorer, and are not willing to switch, run Windows Update, constantly. If you're on XP, just turn the auto-updates on. If you're using an illegal copy of XP, then I guess you're hosed. The other option is to completely remove Microsoft's version of Java, since that's how it gets in.
• There are several sites online offering a program called CWShredder. It will work on most versions of CWS, but it works best if you boot to safe mode first. Otherwise, it will just reinfect the machine immediately after removal. Please note, the author of CWShredder has been blasted off the internet by DOS attacks since last month. The authors of CWS are very serious about their adware.

This is giving me a whole lot of reasons to either switch to Firefox, or switch to Linux. Maybe when A.T. gets back into town I'll ask him to put up an article on switching for gamers.

J.t.Qbe comments: In my department we have have a word for IE users: "targets". Mozilla is the way to go if you want to keep your computer crapware-free.

Later! -- 11:07 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Yours truly is heading out on vacation momentarily for some well-deserved R and R. I'll be checking in periodically, so you shouldn't miss out on too many DOOM3 updates :)

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith -- 8:03 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Lucasfilm has officially announced that the name for the final Star Wars movie will be Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. The Star Wars website also has information on various DVD releases that will be hitting stores between now and the movie's release. Revenge of the Sith makes sense and is a lot better (IMO) than Send in theAttack of the Clones or Phantom Menace. Thanks Slashdot.

BayStar to Sue SCO -- 9:08 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

From the "instant karma's going to get you" department, eWeek is reporting that BayStar will sue SCO. SCO had announced that the BayStar stock sale had been completed. BayStar begs to differ. Apparently they don't believe SCO's revenue report. Methinks SCO doesn't want people examining their books too closely. Ahhh, schadenfreude. Thanks Linux Today.

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