It looks like the Storm Worm has made a revival. My good friend Steven over at www.securityzone.org has reported that a possibly new variant of the Storm Worm is going around right now. The main theme is revolved around Christmas. If you start to see Christmas greeting cards or various Christmas e-mail, please be careful. The card will possibly mention http://www.merrychristmasdude.com (please do not visit this LINK!!!!!!!!!!) Always take precaution, keep your antivirus program up to date, never give out any pertinent information such as your name, address, phone number, social security number as well as your credit card number to people you do not know.
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Archive for December 23rd, 2007
Christmas is two days away. Can you believe that it’s come so quick? I mean, it seems as though just yesterday we were trick or treating and then eating turkey on Thanksgiving! The days go by so fast now. Life goes by so fast. The sad thing is you only get to live once!
This is really strange talking about this but I felt I needed to post this personal post. Here we are, two days away from Christmas 2007. It’s a great time of year, I have to say. We get together as family, spend time together, eat breakfast lunch and dinner together and most of all, get to give to our family and friends.
I would like to wish every single reader a happy and merry Christmas! From the bottom of my heart, to your family and your friends, I hope everyone will be safe and enjoy their Christmas’!
My first thoughts on Microsoft Windows Service Pack 3 are: its shit!
I was reading around and saw that Service Pack 3 supposedly speeds up folder load times. I have a folder which includes several thousand MP3s and the amount of time it takes to open the folder so that I can navigate through the folder is the same prior to installing SP3.
Besides that, it patches the UXTHEME.dll file. The UXTHEME.dll file is a file that allows you to utilize un-signed themes. These themes are customized and built by others who do not work for Microsoft or have an affiliation with Microsoft.
I have SP3 installed on a test bench but went ahead with the installation of SP3 on my main bench. The reason was related to testing it out on my test bench. Everything seemed fine, except for the two minor things I’ve already mentioned.
It will be nice to have the entire updates since SP2 into one big SP once the service pack is finalized. Until then, I would recommend staying away from Windows XP Service Pack 3.