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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Scary thought for the day
Here's a scary thought: a photo taken with an average camera today, won't even fit on a floppy disk.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?
Recently, my copy of Windows XP started giving me this error, when I tried to run an executable program, even after I'd checked its source, firefox had virus scanned it while downloading, and I'd tested it with my installed virus scanner:
"The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?"
Although I could disable this message for one program, there wasn't an obvious way to delete the feature. I went down a horrible rathole of trying to get the group policy console working on my XP home. Five megabytes of downloads and error messages later, I discovered that there's a registry entry that you can set, which prevents this nanny message. Here it is:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
"LowRiskFileTypes"=".exe"
You can either add this manually, or save that text as a text file, change its name to "something.reg" and double click it to add it to your registry. It may not take effect until you restart your computer.
"The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?"
Although I could disable this message for one program, there wasn't an obvious way to delete the feature. I went down a horrible rathole of trying to get the group policy console working on my XP home. Five megabytes of downloads and error messages later, I discovered that there's a registry entry that you can set, which prevents this nanny message. Here it is:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
"LowRiskFileTypes"=".exe"
You can either add this manually, or save that text as a text file, change its name to "something.reg" and double click it to add it to your registry. It may not take effect until you restart your computer.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Special post for Crazy Mamma
Crazy, please tell us on the forum if there's any reliable difference between these two links:
Thanks!!!
Thanks!!!
Thursday, January 11, 2007
The great MARCIA mailstorm of 2002
This is an experiment in blogging... I intend to publish the story of the MARCIA virus mailstorm of 2002 here, some time in the future
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