March 2005 - Posts

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Driving Sims by matt

With the imminent release of GTR:FIA and LFS S2 (not to mention GT4 for PS2... yuk ) I'm starting to consider buying a new wheel . On my search quest I stumbled onto this ! HUBBA HUBBA!!! Isn't this just the wet dreams of any PC gamer?! Downlooad this (very worth it) 10MB video if you need any convincing! Where can I find $30 000?!? (Then again, for that you can rather buy a Citi Golf and go to Kyalami every weekend.) BTW: If you haven't yet, download the 2nd demo of GTR just to get an idea of just...
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spIM by matt

Some fetishist is trying to spIM me! Although I appreciate their graciousness wanting to share their website with me; I'm not into that shit. (And I'm not about to talk to them about it either.) Anyone else received any form of spIM yet? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Anti-Virus - Going open by matt

Thanks for all your feedback, much appreciated. After evaluating: Bitdefender Pro Norton Internet Security 2005 PC-Cillin Internet Security 2005 My biggest peeve with all the above is that they are all huge, invasive monsters that are a dummy's cure to all things bad. I'm sure it's nice if you don't know diddly about viruses and spam, but I'm a power user and don't need that crap using all my CPU cycles. I've decided that lightweight and free is the way to go. I'm installing ClamAV now, based on...
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Anti-Virus by matt

Indulge me here... I've just reformatted my machine and I'm looking for a nice, shiny anti-virus application for my XP SP2 machine. I would prefer something that will be recognised by SP2's Security Centre it would be nice if it had a firewall built-in Mail scanning is a must as I receive stuff that doesn't get scanned at a server level It doesn't have to be free. (I don't mind paying for quality) Any recommendations? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live...
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Operation Honeypot by matt

StillSecure, a Louisville-based network security firm, connected six computers - with six operating systems - to the Internet for a week without any virus protection. The results: 4,892 direct attacks by viruses, worms and other types of malicious code, and 46,255 scans by remote computers looking for weaknesses. Here's what happened: Windows XP Service Pack 1 Attacks: 4,857 Results: Attacked successfully within 18 minutes by the Blaster and Sasser worms. Within an hour, the computer was taken over...
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