Carol’s Vault
Best Freeware, Open Source Software
Rights and Wrongs
Wrongs :AOL- From Kasper to McAfee
Aug 12th
Quick post: AOL decided to replace its antivirus software Active Virus Shield, powered by Kaspersky with McAfee Virus Scan Plus instead…and they call it “Special Edition”. The new suit is still free and includes a firewall, antivirus and a spyware protection. So what’s wrong about it? Users who have been using McAfee over the years [...]
DRM-Free iTune tracks? What a bad joke!
Jun 2nd
How about that? An article on BBC.co.uk – Anger over DRM-free iTunes tracks – is uncovering the story behind the DRM Free tracks. Apparently, is not so DRM-Free as they said it would : News site Ars Technica was among the first to discover that downloaded tracks free of Fairplay have embedded within them the full [...]
May I please ask you to…
May 1st
Update One of my entire entries (Best Freeware ) has been copied and pasted into this blog without my permission : lvwenshi.blogspot.com . I left a message and ask the individual to remove the entry and so my friend David did. All he did was remove our comments and just ignore the request. Does anyone [...]
IE and Firefox fake login flaw
Nov 23rd
The latest versions of both Firefox and Internet Explorer are vulnerable to an unpatched flaw that allows hackers to snaffle users’ login credentials via automated phishing attacks. The information disclosure bug affects the password manager in Firefox 2.0 and its equivalent in IE7. Firefox’s Password Manager, for example, fails to properly check URLs before filling [...]
Vista’s EULA product activation worries
Nov 23rd
The terms of Microsoft’s End User License Agreement (EULA) for its upcoming Vista operating system raises the conflict between two fundamental principles of contract law. The first, and more familiar, is that parties to a contract can generally agree to just about anything, as long as what they agree to doesn’t violate the law and [...]
