If you haven't heard already, there is a buffer overflow attack in the wild that exploits the fully-patched and latest versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, 8.3 and 9.0. The exploit can come in the form of opening a malicious or poisoned PDF file. You can read more about the specifics of the attack and how it works from an article at The Register. To summarize the … [Read more...]
Clean up your Context Menu
The context menu (what pops up when you right-click) is one of the most popular items to clutter; a lot of programs will add their shortcuts or filetypes to the menu when they get installed. It's also a very under-used, convenient location that you could put your frequently used functions and shortcuts. This post should show you how to tame the context menu and make it work for … [Read more...]
Improving Vista File Search
Configuration One of the coolest features of Vista, which is now somewhat available for Windows XP, is the search feature. With background indexing, there's no denying that Vista's search functionality is zippy, faster than Windows Search ever was before. Along with the fact that the animated creatures are gone (the dog by default, "Goodbye Clippy 2.0"), Vista's file search is … [Read more...]
Cardreaderlookupwindow crashes at log out
I had a problem of every time I wanted to log off, restart, or shut down a particular computer, it was hanging for a long time and would eventually proceed after crashing a process. The pesky process that was holding it up was called: Cardreaderlookupwindow. As if that wasn't cryptic enough, the blame actually comes to Adobe Photo Downloader. You might have noticed a little … [Read more...]
Session Manager extension: Prevent Data Loss in Firefox
If you've ever been writing up a long e-mail, forum post, or anything else that doesn't save automatically in your browser and had Firefox crash or your computer shut down, you know how infuriating it can be to lose the time and words that you've already written. While Firefox crashes are far and few between, it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to these things. … [Read more...]