Internet Explorer 7
pffft…. another year, another challenge, another proposal.
That of Internet Explorer 7 to be released - which looks like a joke since its not going to have anything significantly changed since IE6. Moreover, its only for Windows XP users!
Microsoft seems to lose and gain just the right amount of things year-after-year to keep them going!
unpatched windows PC gets infected within 18 minutes on the net
YAY! Pop the corks off the celebration. Bring home the ‘naya kampooter’.
“Babloo ko bulaaaao……”
Nice scene ain’t it? 
The family just bought a new PC for the home, and their “clever” son in 7th standard managed to convince his parents to get an internet connection. Ahhh…. the joys….
SCREEECH !!! (gasp) What was that? What did that dialog say? What’s this about “we can see what you’re doing” and advertisements and pop-ups and pop-ins, and pop-unders and all? Some red-warning there?
huh? Welcome to spyware, worms and trojans push-downloaded from the Internet without the awareness of the victim. You need to keep your Windows OS updated with the latest hot-fixes all the time, and have the clunky tools of the trade - Antivirus, Firewall, Ad-Aware, and what not! Else within 18 minutes of jumping onto the Net, you get infected. Read the report here.
Viruses do not necessarily create visible symptoms for you to detect, and before you finally get to know, the infection has taken its toll upon your machine, almost invisibly! Sure, not everyone gets infected - but it pays to be safe. A stupendous phenomena lately seen round-abouts here is….
“I (sic) run Windows XP which I couldn’t upgrade to any service pack level (because of being a pirated copy) - and I have none of that anti-virus/firewall crap you tell me to install, but still see! See how my system still functions fine?
So says the person, blissfully unaware that:
1. He has no backup
2. Not even hell hath as many viruses as crawleth his hard-disk! (which he simply doesn’t even come to know of due to not having an antivirus) - And he spreads his mentality and files to others. Small wonder then, that we don’t seem to ever be able to see infections gone?
Like Arnold Schwarzzeneger, so viruses - “THEY’LL BE BACK!”
March 18, 2005
More hassles with Net4India
We had to buy a domain www.sat-india.net. We went to net4india and bought the domain using our cyber wallet. The backend processed the order successfully (or so we were told). The money was deducted from our account. Everything seemed to be just fine.
Even on the next day, the domain did not get activated. We checked and found it was still freely available in the market. We tried to book the domain again from net4india. It showed that the domain was still available! The same domain we had already booked and paid for 24hours earlier.
I went to my GoDaddy account and bought the domain easily and the site was activated in 45 minutes flat. The backend of net4india still shows that we have paid for the domain and it is under our control.
How sad can a mismanaged backend get? The company now says that we delayed in processing the order hence it was bought by a third party. And this happened after we had actually paid for the domain!
Excellent work Net4India. GoDaddy? Here I come…
