Agnivo Roy

I have a fairly old PC (about 3 yrs old) having AMD Sempron x86 processor, 512MB DDR333 RAM on a nVidia nForce2 based mainboard. Dunno why but the idea to try out the latest Windows Vista came up today. I freed up a partition, formatted and installed the monster piece of bloatware (yep, it’s vista ultimate edition) on it to check how it runs on my old workhorse which currently runs Windows XP SP2.

Well, Vista ran quite well considering I have an integrated GeForce4 MX graphics controller with 32MB shared RAM…my test was successful. Now it was the time to uninstall. (No, I’m still not convinced to run vista as my primary OS and …

Yesterday, while browsing through FireFox ( hey, I use IE7, FF as well as Opera, my favorite ) , an update notification came up to say that FireFox 2.0.0.2 was released. Well, then I checked official Mozilla FireFox website to see if the update is critical or not and what changes have been made in this update. The 2.0.0.2 fixed some real security holes and can be considered an update of mid to high level priority.

The Firefox 2.0.0.2 release includes a fix for a bug disclosed by security researcher Michal Zalewsky last week. That flaw can be exploited by attackers to manipulate cookie information in the Firefox browser, making it probably the most important fix in …