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Samsung Tackles 'Zero-Click' Malware

by John Lister on March, 3 2023 at 01:03PM EST

Samsung's flagship phone is getting special protection against a particularly nasty form of mobile malware. It combats zero-click attacks, which can steal data or compromise a handset without needing any action by the user. The hacking technique ... hasn't been widely seen in real-world attacks on Android phones, though Samsung claims it has worked on Apple devices. Samsung clearly believes it's just a matter of time before attackers find a vulnerability that would make such an attack almost irresistible. The company explains that a zero-click attack would exploit such a vulnerability by sending ... (view more)

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Migrating to Win7: How to Mount Your XP Drive Image

by Dennis Faas on December, 8 2009 at 08:12AM EST

I've decided to put together step-by-step instructions on how to use Acronis True Image 2010 to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7. I'm doing this for two reasons: 1. We currently have a sale on Acronis True Image on our website at 25% off . The ... proceeds will go directly to support our site. 2. Most folks will have time during the holidays to perform the Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade . It will take a few days to do because it will require you to do a fresh install of Windows. But before that you need to backup what you have and then be able to access the data later after Windows 7 is ... (view more)

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CD Anywhere Review

by Dennis Faas on December, 13 2005 at 08:12AM EST

Synopsis: Need a way to run a CD or DVD directly from the hard drive? CD Anywhere is a powerful CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive emulator that allows you to emulate up to 23 virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives. And because the CD image is stored / read directly from the ... hard drive, data transfer is *significantly* faster than running a program straight from CD or DVD -- just imagine what it would be like to own a 200x CD-ROM drive! With CD Anywhere, you can also create image files from CD or DVD, burn CD image files to a disc with the built-in burner, erase CD-RW discs, and many other useful functions. CD Anywhere ... (view more)

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Re-associate Image File Type to Open with a Specific Program?

by Dennis Faas on January, 14 2005 at 08:01AM EST

Infopackets Reader John W. writes: " I have a Dell PC and it came with Jasc Paint Shop Pro [picture editor software] installed. After a few months of operation, a screen came up and told me that the trial period for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) had expired. ... I had never used it, so I uninstalled it as PSP cost over $100 to buy the program. After doing this I could no longer open attachments in my Outlook Express. I guess that part of Paint Shop Pro was used to view my email image attachments for Outlook Express. I went searching for a viewer to install and came across a page on the Internet that ... (view more)

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