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Advanced Windows Tool Suite

If you have owned a personal computer for very long, you probably know of various PC tool kits to recover and/or improve performance, protect from invasive malware (MALicious softWARE), and so forth. Prices range from free to beta test to shareware to commercial ware. Some of these products are focused on one issue at a [...]

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2008 04 04 admin reviews-swp Comments (0)

Rogue Software, Two Meanings

An old definition for rogue software is programs that operate outside normal or desirable controls, applications that have taken on anomalous or unpredictable behavior (analogous to a rogue elephant or tornado). This term can describe software that started out acting as expected, but later seemed to go nuts, sometimes due to stress conditions or bugs [...]

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2008 03 11 admin articles-swp Comments (1)

From Cookie Monster to PC Worm

The Cookie Monster existed before Sesame Street and personal computers.
An IBM computer operator at Brown University teased his users by locking out their terminals and manually sending them messages asking for a cookie until they typed “cookie.” This was soon automated by other jokesters at MIT by a timer operated script inserted in a user’s [...]

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2008 03 09 admin articles-swp Comments (0)