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Friday, April 24, 2009

Get Rid Of Adobe Reader!

F-Secure a Finnish anti-virus vendor has come out and stated that Adobe Reader is so insecure and there have been so many recent vulnerabilities to show up, they recommend finding an alternative application to handle PDF files. 


I have been preaching this to my clients and co-workers for at least the last 6 months. I agree with them totally and have switched every computer I come into contact with to Foxit Reader. It's a much smaller quicker application, totally free and you can do editing if you pay for the software.

Here's the complete story regarding F-Secure's announcement:

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Help Wipe Out Spammers

Here is a neat idea on a way to cripple spam-bots. The people at Office Of Strategic Influence have created a way to generate random e-mail addresses. So that when a spammer hits your website and tries to harvest e-mails, it floods their server with bogus addresses. Nice idea if it works. If it cuts down on spam, I'm all for it. The link below takes you to the page where you can pick up the code necessary to input into your website or blog:

This Link Kills Spam

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