CompuWorld » bugs found http://www.nofullstop.com The Genius Inside You Is Still Sleeping Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:25:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Chrome says ‘google.com’ is fake! http://www.nofullstop.com/2010/08/13/chrome-says-google-com-is-fake/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2010/08/13/chrome-says-google-com-is-fake/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:36:33 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/?p=2623 Though Google Chrome is the best browser that I have ever used still I will have to commit that it does goof up things at times and the outcome is so weird that anyone would get confused. Some time back my friend tried to open the Google Search home page and as he is located in India so google.co.in is saved in his browsing history which should have opened up by default. Somehow he was sent to Google’s global home page google.com and chrome could not understand this redirection. The end result was the warning page shown below:

The warning page said:

You attempted to reach google.co.in but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as www.google.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit (and potentially harmful) version of google.co.in. You should not proceed.

Well, it is weird to see that Google Chrome considers www.google.com as harmful. Really weird!

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Is the above image quiet familiar for you? Are you amongst those users who regularly use Google Chrome due to the multiple features that it carries yet are frustrated due to its irresponsible behavior with some websites? And, does the below line seems familiar?

Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome

One way out is referring to the Support Page created by Google. It will ask you to refresh your cache, scan your system for silly malwares, and delete unwanted cookies. But, I am pretty sure that all this just won’t solve your problem. Once you are done experimenting with different Google suggested methods then I will request you to try playing with the internal Google Chrome settings.

See the checkbox inside the bright red oval in the image above? Well, that is the key to unlock your lock. Go to (see image below) Tools > Options (which is Preferences on Mac) > Under The Hood Tab and uncheck the checkbox next to “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance.” This will help Google Chrome load some of the websites that usually aren’t loaded and will also increase the website load time by very few microseconds (which you won’t notice).

Happy Chroming!!

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2010/03/14/oops-this-link-appears-to-be-broken-in-google-chrome/feed/ 0 WARNING: Alexa Delivering A Trojan Program To Your Computer http://www.nofullstop.com/2009/05/31/warning-alexa-delivering-a-trojan-program-to-your-computer/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2009/05/31/warning-alexa-delivering-a-trojan-program-to-your-computer/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 16:06:41 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/?p=2289 Well, this looks to be unusual but true. My licenced Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 (updated database) displays a securiy warning whenever I open Alexa to check rank of any website. Just check the screenshot below.

alexa-contains-trojan-program

The object which seems to contain the trojan is heroestelevision.com/favicon.ico. Name of the trojan was “Trojan-Downloader.JS.Iframe.bag”. Kaspersky was quick to deny the loading of this object but everybody might now have Kaspersky with them. Watch out guys!

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2009/05/31/warning-alexa-delivering-a-trojan-program-to-your-computer/feed/ 3 FireFox 3.0.3 Released 3 Days After 3.0.2 http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/09/27/firefox-303-released-3-days-after-302/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/09/27/firefox-303-released-3-days-after-302/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:17:01 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/?p=1818 Three days after the release of FireFox 3.0.2 a new update has been launched. FireFox 3.0.3 is all set to be used. Somehow, in previous release users couldn’t retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords. Although I was also using the same release but I didn’t face any problems.

I am sure some out there might have faced this problem of not able to recover saved passwords and hence for them FireFox 3.0.3 becomes a must download. Mostly, your FireFox will update itself on its own but if it dosen’t then I guess you should do it manually so that your passwords are remembered.

Features of 3.0.3 which are common with 3.0.2 are:

  • Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales.
  • Fixed several stability issues.
  • Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.
  • Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available.
  • Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Thai are available for testing.
  • Add new Extended Validation (EV) roots to Firefox 3.0.2.
  • Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/09/27/firefox-303-released-3-days-after-302/feed/ 0 Google Reader Count Not Showing Up In My RSS Feeds (Again!) http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/08/15/google-reader-count-not-showing-up-in-my-rss-feeds-again/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/08/15/google-reader-count-not-showing-up-in-my-rss-feeds-again/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:20:56 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/?p=533 This has happened before (here and here) since Google took over Feedburner and still Google didn’t learn anything of this? Just check the images below.


Lets see if this comes back up tomorrow.

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/08/15/google-reader-count-not-showing-up-in-my-rss-feeds-again/feed/ 2 Google’s Feedburner Messes It Up Again! http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/04/06/googles-feedburner-messes-it-up-again/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/04/06/googles-feedburner-messes-it-up-again/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:40:23 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/04/06/googles-feedburner-messes-it-up-again/ This isn’t the first time when  Feedburner has  provided wrong stats for my feeds. Last time many big bloggers were hit when Google acquired feedburner and the RSS feed stats for most of them changed to zero!

Later on again the problem came up when many bloggers complained that their Google Reader stats were not being counted and this resulted in their feed stats falling down but luckily I was on the safer side in that second glitch.

Now it looks like Google had remembered that they had spared me the last time and so this time my feed burner stats have gone down by over a 100 just because my email subscribers aren’t being counted. Irritating and true!

Any of you face the same problem or is it just me?

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/04/06/googles-feedburner-messes-it-up-again/feed/ 1 Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/20/microsoft-internet-explorer-multiple-vulnerabilities/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/20/microsoft-internet-explorer-multiple-vulnerabilities/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:00:33 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/20/microsoft-internet-explorer-multiple-vulnerabilities/ Secunia has released a “highly critical” vulnerability for various versions of Internet Explorer.

Versions Affected?

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

How can this vulnerability be exploited?

  • An error in the way HTML with certain layout combinations is interpreted can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.
  • An error in the way the “by” property of an “animateMotion” SVG element is handled can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page assigning other DOM elements to the property.
  • An error in the argument validation when processing images can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Microsoft has released patches to fight the vulnerability.

ELSE USE FIREFOX and surf the internet without any problems.

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/20/microsoft-internet-explorer-multiple-vulnerabilities/feed/ 1 30 Days & Microsoft Fails To Deliver A Security Update http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/19/30-days-microsoft-fails-to-deliver-a-security-update/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/19/30-days-microsoft-fails-to-deliver-a-security-update/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:00:38 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/19/30-days-microsoft-fails-to-deliver-a-security-update/ It’s been almost a month when Microsoft announced a security breach in various versions of Microsoft Excel. They wrote about some details of the vulnerability but didn’t explain clearly about the solutions. Updates were promised after some research was over and it has now been more then a month since the research process is on. Someone knows when will they be releasing the update?

Software Affected

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2.
  • Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003.
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2002.
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2000.
  • Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac.

Software NOT Affected

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
  • Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac.
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 3.

How it works

The vulnerability can be exploited if an attacker uses a specially crafted Excel file with malformed header information. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code on victims computer.

Solution

Not yet released! Although as a precaution whenever you get some Excel file as an attachment do confirm about the attachment with the sender before opening the file. And do keep a check on this page to see when a patch is released.

More: Read about some more highly critical bugs found in our archives.

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/02/19/30-days-microsoft-fails-to-deliver-a-security-update/feed/ 0 My Feedburner Readers Are ZERO! Google Murdered All Of Them Suddenly http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/09/my-feedburner-readers-are-zero-google-murdered-all-of-them-suddenly/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/09/my-feedburner-readers-are-zero-google-murdered-all-of-them-suddenly/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:03:53 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/09/my-feedburner-readers-are-zero-google-murdered-all-of-them-suddenly/ I don’t know if this happened to everyone but yes it has happened to many and I am also the victim! I was shocked today to see that my Google Feedburner count is ZERO?

I have personally also registered to my feeds just to keep a check daily if the feeds are working and the feed seemed to work currently too. But I do not know what on earth Google has done that killed all my readers? Give me my readers back…please!

My current readers are ZERO and readers for comments are also ZERO. Yesterday they were 81 and 1 respectively!

It has been few days when I shifted to wordpress from blogger and I had the fear that I might loose my feedburner readers but thanks to labnol feedburner faq I did not loose even one of my readers!

But poof Google wont let me sleep tonight I guess! I hope they work on this very soon.

Did you also loose your readers? Do reply in comments.

UPDATE: 3 hours have passed since I wrote this article and Google seemed to have fixed the bug. I have my readers back. Living secondlife ;)

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]]> http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/09/my-feedburner-readers-are-zero-google-murdered-all-of-them-suddenly/feed/ 3 Symbiosis Sister Site Delivers Virus To Your Computer http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/07/symbiosis-sister-site-delivers-virus-to-your-computer/ http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/07/symbiosis-sister-site-delivers-virus-to-your-computer/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:35:20 +0000 Salman http://www.nofullstop.com/2007/09/07/symbiosis-sister-site-delivers-virus-to-your-computer/ One of the very famous websites being visited today specially in India is snaptest.org, which is actually a sister site of Symbiosis Institute Of Business Management. Symbiosis is one of the very famous b-schools of India and has developed a name for itself in last many days.

Time for entrance exam to earn a seat into the school is nearing in and in order to know the details of the exam when few of my friends visited there sister site snaptest.org there computers slowed down and also started downloading heavy content from the Internet behind the scenes without there permission. The keyword snaptest when searched in Google gives the link for snaptest.org with the usual This site may harm your compute being displayed under the website link.

If you click on the original website link they take you to the warning page shown below:

And the warning page points to same broken link to which I pointed out 6 months back. When you happen to click on stopbadware.org hyperlink then you are taken to the error page of stopbadware.org website.

Search for the keyword snaptest and see the broken link yourself.

TIP: Those who have already been plagued with this website could check few folders under the administrators documents and settings/my document folder and look for a file “ieupdate.exe” If you find that file than just delete it. This will atleast stop the extra download which is occurring behind the scenes. But the computer wont speed up with this. Try and scanning the system with your virus scanner.

My plans of not going for MBA after my engineering helped me this time. Else I would also have visited the site to check out the entrance test details and had my sweet little computer screwed.

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