Good Day to all, i hope you have a nice one
Ad-Aware Defunct?, Free, Way-Cool Desktop "Search Bar",+another bad one:MS
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Well, not exactly Ad-Aware--- the free and excellent spyware-remover from LavaSoft.
But LavaSoft itself seems to be gone:
Their web site at http://www.lavasoft.de/ spewed file and server "not found" messages for a week,
and now gives only a generic "Hier entsteht eine neue Internetprasenz!" (or, loosely, "Here comes a new site...".)
You can still get the software from a variety of download sites (see
http://www.google.com/search?q=ad%2Daware ) but the parent company may be dead.
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Free, Way-Cool Desktop "Search Bar"
Plus! reader Patrick Deal, at the ripe old age of 19, already is a
pretty good programmer. He's developed a free custom search bar for your
desktop that lets you instantly access any of 6 major search engines
without having to first open your browser. Here's how he describes it:
Search Bar is a little program I created because I hated
having to open a new browser window, go to a search engine
site, wait for it to load and then do my search. Search Bar is
a little window that sits on top of all your windows to give
you quick access to many different search engines. It comes
with 6 popular search engines (Altavista, Excite, Google,
HotBot, Lycos, and Yahoo), but you can add almost any engine
you want. You can minimize the program to an icon in the
system tray for quick access to the Search Bar.
At first, Search Bar was a simple program I created to make my
personal searches quicker and easier. Then I read an issue of
the Langa List that talked about search engines and quicker
ways to search. After reading that, I realized that since my
program had made my searches easier and quicker, it could do
the same for others.
Aside from being a pretty good programmer, Patrick also is generous: He
polished his code and told me I could offer it to you, for free.
I have his Search Bar running on my desktop now. Minimized, it shrinks
to almost nothing as a magnifying-glass icon in the "tray" over by the
clock. But even maximized, it presents a small, clean UI that takes up
hardly any space. You type what you want to search for, select which of
6 search engines you wish to use, and click the search button. In a
flash, Search Bar opens your browser, switches to the search engine of
your choice, and feeds in the search terms. It's incredibly useful.
Note that you are likely to experience delays in downloading this
software due to the anticipated high volume. SearchBar was first offered
to the LangaList Plus! subscribers about a week ago, and is still
available to them via the speedier Plus! private site. (Plus! sign-up: http://www.langa.com/plus.htm. Plus! subscriber login: http://www.langalist.com/plus/ )
Public download: http://www.freetune.com/sb/sb.htm
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It's another bad one:
Last week, Microsoft acknowledged that an "incorrect MIME header can
cause IE to execute E-mail attachment" with the result being that your
system would "run code of attacker's choice." Yikes.
Anyone running IE 5.12 or 5.5 needs the patch available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp
There also are some manual workarounds (such as turning off File
Downloads for the affected Security Zones). The above link will bring
you to a full explanation, as well as to the download link for the
patch.
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regards minir
Ad-Aware Defunct?, Free, Way-Cool Desktop "Search Bar",+another bad one:MS
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tekelberry
must be down againOriginally posted by blebs99:
Ad Aware is now back and running! New version 4.6 is out also and they're working on version 5.0! check it out minir, it just came back up a little bit ago. www.lavasoft.de
Sorry Tekelberry and minir: It was there and is down again. They will return because they had even posted that they were glad to finally have the site back up and running.
Don't know what the trouble is right now, just keep checking. It will be up sooner or later. Like I said in my other post in Security forum, I got version 4.6 and they are working on releasing version 5.0.
I hate when sites make me look like a liar, but what can I do besides have you check it now and then. prey521 got a copy too!
[ 04-06-2001: Message edited by: blebs99 ]
Don't know what the trouble is right now, just keep checking. It will be up sooner or later. Like I said in my other post in Security forum, I got version 4.6 and they are working on releasing version 5.0.
I hate when sites make me look like a liar, but what can I do besides have you check it now and then. prey521 got a copy too!
[ 04-06-2001: Message edited by: blebs99 ]
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
Ad Aware is now back and running! New version 4.6 is out also and they're working on version 5.0! check it out minir, it just came back up a little bit ago. www.lavasoft.de
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
