Exploiting Online Games is the third book in series of titles by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. Their two other books have previously been reviewed here at 404 Tech Support - Exploiting Software: How to Break Code and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. These titles typically provide information for developers to take into consideration in their projects and for IT … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned Virus Fighting
Last weekend I saw a pretty fierce virus infection and during this week at work I've seen a couple of infections as well. Through these events, I've made a few notes, learned a few things, and polished some procedures for fighting viruses quickly and efficiently. These steps are, in my opinion, best practice to remove anything from your everyday malware, worms, and viruses, on … [Read more...]
TextOn9: Type on your computer like you’re typing on a phone
TextOn9 is the subject of my latest article over at Freewaregenius. It's a silly little program that displays an onscreen keyboard in the style of many phones. While there may seem to be little purpose or functionality for a program like this it is actually a very nice, compact onscreen keyboard that beats most others I've seen. Check out the full Freewaregenius article for … [Read more...]
High Sign: control your PC using mouse gestures
My latest article is up over at Freewaregenius. It covers High Sign, a promising mouse gesture program that allows you to use strokes of your mouse as shortcuts, which is in a second alpha release. It shows a lot of potential to replace some of the current mouse gesture programs out there and make improvements to become a real top-notch application. Find out more information … [Read more...]
Configure your Antivirus Correctly
Antivirus software can frequently be blamed for eating up computing resources and slowing down a computer. Most of the time that is the basis for arguments when we choose or recommend our favorite antivirus software (I recommend Avast.). The problem of resource-hungry malware protection software is usually a result of the program itself or poor programming, but some of the … [Read more...]