Task manager registry editor disabled due to virus

Protect yourselves from phishing

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/get-smart-against-phishing.html from compromised sites due to poor design. One experience I had is with a feedback form on a site which mails the feedbacks to me. Now some spammer creatively modified the feedback text so that the mail was sent to many!. Now thats a security risk!So we must be careful when designing such systems, what I did was to replace the @ symbols in the feedback form with "(at)". Now that has stopped the spams from getting through to others. Another poor design comes when there is XSS (Cross Site ...

About "HOSTS" File

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/about-hosts-file.html serving site is given inhttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txtIt is not recommended to copy the entire list to your local HOSTS file as it slows down the system. So choose ones that you think needs to be blocked. What is this pop up about?When you are saving the HOSTS file, a pop up may appear that asks you to confirm the changes to the HOSTS file. This pop up may or may not appear based on the OS, and other Anti-Virus Softwares you are running.What else can I do with "HOSTS" file? You ...

Perl Download Manager

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/06/perl-download-manager.html Perl Download Manager IntroThis is my PERL downloader program, with resume.Only works if SERVER has Parts enabled.Well pretty much thats it #!/usr/bin/perluse strict;use threads;use threads::shared;use HTTP::Request;use HTTP::Response;use Math::Round qw(nearest);use LWP;exit unless(defined $ARGV[0] && -e $ARGV[0]);open HND,$ARGV[0];NEXT:while(my $url = ){ my $file = substr($url,rindex($url,"/")+1); $file =~ s/%20/_/g; chomp $url; exit if($url eq "" || $file eq ...

Extracting embedded Album art in mp3

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/extracting-embedded-album-art-in-mp3.html Extracting embedded Album art in mp3 AboutThis command line tool extracts embedded album art pictures from mp3's. It extracts only album art that is within the mp3 file. External album arts need not be extracted as they are plain files and can be seen in respective folders, by unchecking the "Hide protected operating system files" in view Tab in Folder Options in Windows XP.(Tools > Folder Options > View Tab)DownloadDownload as zip (38.3 KB)(I Assert that it is not a virus ...