Thursday, December 16, 2004

Microsoft acquires antispyware vendor Giant. Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Giant Company Software and plans to use the company's intellectual property and technology assets to provide Windows users with new tools for protecting against spyware. [Computerworld News] 6:40:36 PM    comment []

History of Star Wars Video Games [Slashdot:] 4:39:29 PM    comment []

Germany's most imcompetent comment spammer. Here we go again. Cheap labor. Manually spamming from a known IP address through Deutsche Telekom. Let's take a closer look: Host p54876E7D.dip.t-dialin.net (84.135.110.125) appears to be up ... good.Interesting ports on p54876E7D.dip.t-dialin.net (84.135.110.125):135/tcp open msrpc1025/tcp open NFS-or-IIS5000/tcp open UPnPRunning: Microsoft Windows NT/2K/XPOS details: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP3 Windows... [vowe dot net] 4:35:40 PM    comment []

MSN Desktop Search Out-Googles Google. Google may be the ultimate Web searcher, but when it comes to finding things on your computer, the just-released beta of MSN Desktop Search beats it hands-down. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 9:12:17 AM    comment []

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