posted on Thursday, October 14, 2004 6:33 PM
by
jdixon
Interesting PC Magazine Articles
I've was reading PC Magazine tonight, and I came across two very interesting articles. I thought they were worth passing along.
The first article is called “No-Cost Ad Blocking” and is written by Sheryl Canter. (You can read her on-line version here.) It shows you how you can block web page ads, for free, by using a Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) file. Sheryl's Web page explains the concept, and includes links to freely downloadable files that implement this. This is a good read.
The second article discusses a product called SeePassword that can display passwords that are hidden by asterisks or dots in Windows forms. I've seen this kind of thing before on Windows 9x, but I thought NT and XP weren't vulnerable to this. I guess I was wrong. You should also check out the View Passwords bookmarklet on www.squarefree.com for another way to reveal passwords.