BRUCEB NEWS
Location Tracking: Cell Towers, Key Fobs, And Cameras
Previously: Location Tracking: They Know Where You Are Location Tracking: LA LA LA I DON’T WANT TO HEAR YOU Location Tracking: Who’s Following You? How Do They Know Where You Are? The phone carriers – Verizon, AT&T, and the others – track the location of your...
SPAM AND VIRUS TSUNAMI
I’ve used the same e-mail address for years. It’s listed on my web site and I’ve used it to subscribe to several mailing lists. That makes it a prime target for abuse - but I'm...
FILTERING SOBIG MESSAGES
Messages generated by the Sobig virus arrive in your mailbox with one of nine randomly chosen subject lines: - Re: Details - Re: Approved - Re: Re: My details - Re: Thank you! -...
NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004 WILL USE PRODUCT ACTIVATION
Norton Antivirus 2004 will be released next month. For the first time, all versions of the product will require product activation, similar to the process of activating Windows...
SOBIG AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
This article in The Register discusses the long-term effect of spam and viral messages, which are undermining the potential usefulness of e-mail and might lead inexorably to a...
LONG TERM STORAGE ON CDRs
According to this article, a Dutch magazine did an extensive test of CD-R quality. Data was burned onto thirty different CDR brands, and a shocking number of them were unreadable...
WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN
Lord of the Rings fans: You have a long memory, right? Think back to last year - you bought the DVD of Fellowship of the Ring right away, and then found out that the extended...
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 DELAYED
Microsoft announced recently that Service Pack 2 for Windows XP will be delayed until next year, possibly not arriving until summer 2004. The service pack will wrap up all the...
FLOP MOVIES: IT’S OUR FAULT
This summer featured a high percentage of failed blockbuster movies (The Hulk, Charlie’s Angels, Gigli, and lots more), and the industry has a new theory to explain why the...
LIFE IN HELL WITH PAC BELL, SBC & YAHOO
Clients with e-mail addresses @pacbell.net called me today because they weren’t receiving any mail. The online tools provided by Pac Bell to work with e-mail accounts showed no...
SOBIG VIRUS
Yet another virus making the rounds today, and it must be really efficient at sending new copies of itself - I've gotten more than two dozen messages today carrying the virus,...
BEWARE OF VIRUS HOAXES
E-mail messages are already circulating that purport to be from Microsoft, urging recipients to execute an attachment to the message to install a security update against the...
BLASTER WORM REMOVAL
If you're infected by the Blaster worm, download and install the security update from Microsoft on this page. Then click here to download Symantec's removal tool. Save it to your...
NEW VIRUS ATTACKS WINDOWS PCs
A new virus was launched today that exploits the security hole acknowledged by Microsoft on July 16. (See my writeup on August 4.) You'll likely see newspaper articles on Tuesday...
WIRELESS EVERYWHERE
Wireless access points are cheap and easy to set up, creating a wireless cloud surrounding the access point for 50-70 feet in all directions. Anybody inside that cloud with a...
MICROSOFT DIGITAL IMAGE PRO 9
Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9 is a new version of Microsoft’s high-end program for working with photos and scans. The interface is slightly updated from last year’s version, and...