Many of our free utilities are not ready for 64 bit. I have decided we will upgrade them one by one...in order of popularity :)

Just received a note from a reader:

Hi Steve,

Is the auto logon program you have for download supposed to work with Windows Vista Ultimate x64? (doesn’t seem to work)

It works just fine on x86 Vista, but doesn’t autologon with x64 machines.

Thanks


This particular utility writes to some registry keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software. That makes it a target for an application compatibility technology in Vista known as registry virtualization.

Many older Windows applications assume administrator access. This means reading and writing freely to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. This is not compatible with the Vista security model. To work around it Vista will intercept these requests and redirect them to a HKEY_CURRENT_USER key that looks identical. This way allows the application to work, and avoid asking for full administrative access via the UAC prompt.

There are a few rules 64 bit Vista uses for virtualizing registry reads and writes:

-The application must be 32-bit interactive process

-The key that is written to must be...

The FTP protocol allows users to connect to a server, read directories and filenames, and download and upload data. If the correct access rights are set, users can also create new folders and set access permissions on them.

However, using FTP poses a security risk: Usernames and passwords are transmitted unencrypted across a LAN or the Internet. To stop users from taking the risk of giving their authentication details to anyone listening on the wire, many sites only enable anonymous FTP login and file retrieval. Many Linux users have turned to more secure alternatives, such as sshd and sftp or scp, included with the OpenSSH suite.


The FTP Client Interface
Using the text-based FTP interface helps you understand what each action in a graphical FTP session does. This understanding can be handy when, for example, the graphic client does not automatically detect the file type being transferred. In this situation, a binary file is transferred as an ASCII file and is therefore useless. Conversely, an ASCII file transferred as a binary prints the ^M control character at the end of each line. This error typically occurs when transferring files from older Microsoft Windows operating systems to Linux,...

Spammers are now sending a newer version of the infamous “CNN.com” group of malspam email messages called “CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert”.

We first posted a removal guide for the CNN.com Daily Top 10 message infection and now it seems the same string of malicious emails has changed slightly to the subject line “CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert”. “Here we go again”, this is probably what you will say to yourself if you encounter this new malspam message.

After an examination of this new variation of malspam email utilizing the CNN theme, it seems to be a bit more deceiving than the previous “CNN.com Daily Top 10″ malspam message. The “CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert” message actually routes to a legitimate CNN story from one of the many links embeded in the cnn image. The legitimate link that it points to is the “Chinese Islamic group threatens Olympics” story found on the real CNN.com site. Before you run off and tell your buddies that this email is OKAY, we noticed that another link within the email is malicious. Embedded within the image of the “CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert” message is a

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