Friday, February 06, 2004 - Posts
Microsoft has released a removal tool for MyDoom... sounds interesting!
This tool will help to remove the MyDoom.A and My.Doom.B worms from infected Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems. Once executed, after the EULA is accepted, the tool automatically checks for infection and removes the worm(s) if found. If a machine is infected with MyDoom.B, the tool will also provide the user with the default version of the "hosts" file and set the "read-only" attribute for that file.
You can download it from HERE.
On some documentation about ADO.NET, I've found that, during the close of a SqlConnection, is a "best practice" to close a connection with these lines of code:
connection.Close();
connection.Dispose();
Why this? Are really necessary Close() and Dispose()? They both close the connection...
The Dispose() method for SqlConnection however closes the connection and also does some extra cleanup because it checks the ConnectionState... if it's closed, it sets itself to null, if its open, it calls the Close() method. After that it calls System.ComponentModel.Component.Dispose().
I'd like to know if it's really necessary to close a SqlConnection always with this 2 lines of code...
RealNetworks has announced that three flaws affecting different versions of its media player (RealOne Player, RealOne Player version 2, RealPlayer 8, RealPlayer 10 Beta, and the company's RealOne Enterprise products) could allow attackers to create corrupt music or video files that, when played, take control of a victim's PC.
To exploit them, an attacker crafts the data in a media file in a certain way. When people play or stream the corrupted file in a vulnerable version of RealPlayer, the attacker's code will run, compromising the PC.
RealNetworks has posted instructions on its Web site to update their RealPlayer software. Check it!
A recent market research by Nielsen//NetRatings, which ranks the most visited destinations on the internet, has claimed that the major part of the top 1000 most visited websites (with the highest traffic)run on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) than any other web server (including the popular open source Apache platform). Will be true? However, Apache remains the most widespread...
I'd like to see a research about performance and security of this two web server... who will be the winner in this competition?
A nice surprise for your girl... Microsoft has released a
screensaver for Windows which celebrates
Valentine's Day. During setup you can enter the message of love you would like the screensaver to display by editing the screensaver settings. You can download it from
here...