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HowTo: Remove the Bloat From iGoogle

March 21st, 2009 S.Richmond No comments

I’ve been using the iGoogle home page for quite some time now, and it is an exceptional online tool – Infinitely modifiable to ones wants and needs. I have mine setup nicely so I can jump on and instantly see whats going on in all the areas that interest me. It is effectively a ‘Next-Gen’ newspaper, and one I cannot easily live without these days.

But some time ago Google forcefully rolled out a new version with the Canvas View feature, which adds a tab bar down the left hand side and makes a lot of the gadgets capable of maximizing to the width of the page without having to actually load a new page. It is very cool in some respects and I’m sure many people simply love its usefulness. I am not one of those people.

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The Storm Worm

May 27th, 2008 S.Richmond 2 comments

This is a white paper i did for uni last semester that i’m actually quite proud of. A lot of research and work went into it and amazingly i had fun doing it too. Its quite an eye opener.

Abstractthis paper will discuss and disseminate how the Storm Worm operates and the most current forms of mitigation and removal. Considering that its success can be largely attributed to the number of ways in which it can distribute itself, stay aware of the environment it is in, and the use of some intriguing techniques to avoid termination this worm in particular calls for caution.

You can download the PDF version HERE or continue on to read the rest.

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