Category Misc.

OK, it works. Zune plus Ferrari 5000 x64 Vista. Happy together. Now converting and sync’ing Starwars III and Phantom of the Opera to new Zune.

I hate ads. I hate Flash ads. AdMuncher (www.admuncher.com) has some issues with Vista Symptoms – IE won’t display pages when Ad Muncher is running. How to make it work: (assumes Ad Muncher loads at startup) 1. Install Live Messenger…

D-Link’s Secure Spot looked awesome. I’m told that my advance reviewers hardware should be arriving very soon. This device will sit between your broadband modem and your router and stop SPAM, virri, pop-ups, provide parental control and insure peace in…

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Microsoft and Pharos seemingly don’t want to support 64 bit Windows computing on XP x64 or Vista Betas x64 with 64 bit GPS drivers. Here’s how I got everything working on both platforms and with Mappoint 2005 and MS Streets…

Diversified Multimedia LLC let me preview an incredibly elegant solution to easily and quickly get your non content restricted Recorded TV from MCE 2005 to an Apple Video IPOD. Quickly. I will repeat Quickly. No audio/video sync problems. Absolutely seamless.…

Anti-Malware Engineering Team : Sony DRM Rootkit “..We have analyzed this software, and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add a detection and removal signature for the rootkit component of the XCP software to…

Sophos: Troj/RKProc-Fam and Troj/Stinx disinfection instructions “Troj/RKProc-Fam and Troj/Stinx disinfection instructions Resolve is the name for a set of small, downloadable Sophos utilities designed to remove and undo the changes made by certain viruses, Trojans and worms. They terminate any…

Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed by N.Y. county | CNET News.com This is amazing. Outlawing unsecured wireless by requiring a hardware or software firewall.  Encryption appears not to matter. Thats’ plain wrong.

UPDATE- Link to download removal tool is at — Sony BMG and First 4 Internet have just released an update that will completely remove the rootkit based DRM content protection software and replace it with a non-rootkit DRM technology…