Here is a short howto on setting up ad blocking in Mozilla Firefox 0.9.
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Archive for June, 2004
EPOC.Cabir is a proof-of-concept worm that replicates on Nokia Series 60 phones.
It repeatedly sends itself to the first Bluetooth-enabled device that it can find, regardless of the type of device (i.e. even a Bluetooth-enabled printer will be attacked if it is within range).
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A new version of Firefox has been released. Firefox 0.9 was announced yesterday on Mozilla.org.
Firefox is available for Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X. It can be downloaded from the Firefox download page.
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Apple has released iTunes 4.6. The new version ‘includes support for playing your music wirelessly using AirPort Express with AirTunes. It also includes a number of other minor enhancements.’
After nearly 10 years together and more than 24 million albums sold, Creed have decided to put an end to their string of multiplatinum records and chart-topping singles. The choice was made months ago, when guitarist Mark Tremonti and singer Scott Stapp reconvened after a yearlong hiatus and ran into problems.
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Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.
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A new type 2 diabetes drug derived from the saliva of a huge, venomous lizard may control blood sugar without the weight gain associated with other diabetes medications.
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The company’s president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Schwartz, said here Wednesday that Sun plans to give its proprietary Solaris server operating system an open-source flavor, but he declined to give a timetable for the shift.
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Network Associates, makers of McAfee VirusScan, has been granted a broad US patent for technology covering “compound filters, paragraph hashing, and Bayes rules” for filtering unwanted e-mail messages.
This patent also appears to affect Spam Bayes, SpamAssassin and Brightmail among a few others.
