Me, Myself and Technology
Kalpik Nigam

New P2P Virus

April 27th 2006

Win32.Polipos SYMPTOMS: Size of executable increases with about 60-70 KB. There could be detected unusual network activity. Suspect activity for the running processes (searching and modifying executable files).

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Nero v7.2.0.3 released

April 27th 2006

A new version of nero has been released. Version number has gone up from 7.0.8.2 to 7.2.0.3. Seems to be a major update.

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Michal Zalewski Announces A New Bug for Internet Explorer

April 27th 2006

Michal Zalewski, the researcher who announced in March an Internet Explorer vulnerability whose exploitation could crash the browser, has some news for Microsoft and the company’s security experts won’t be too pleased with them.

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New Bluetooth Virus

April 27th 2006

A newly detected mobile phone virus is charging mobile phone users $5 to send a premium rate SMS message, security experts warned today at Infosec Europe 2006.

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Yahoo Messenger v7.5.0.811

April 27th 2006

The much awaited yahoo messenger v7.5 is finally out of beta! Grab it here!

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Online Malware Scan

April 27th 2006

Just thought i’d let you know about this site, http://virusscan.jotti.org. Its a site using multiple anti-virus scan engines (15, as of yet, new engines being added regularly!) to scan files uploaded by users from across the globe.

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Birthdays and Characteristics!

April 27th 2006

January 01-10 ~ Dog January 10-24 ~ Mouse January 25-31 ~ Lion February 01-05 ~ Cat February 06-14 ~ Dove February 15-21 ~ Turtle February 22-28 ~ Panther March 01-12 ~ Monkey

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KIS/KAV Beta v6.0.1.307 released

April 27th 2006

Changelog: Build [307] Resolved: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 FS 06273 Missing functionality for server connection for the user 08884 Events: Incorrect event type Feature Corrected locking when modules load Feature Exceptions around AV signatures code are removed for diagnostics

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My Rig

April 27th 2006

So.. Here’s my PC configuration..

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