Just because you’re really good at something, it doesn’t make you a good person

It’s a funny thing.  Hunter’s probably one of the best writers that we’ll ever get, but I didn’t care about that.  The Rolling Stones are probably the best best rock & roll singers left, but they’re total fucking jerks in my world.  I met them at Altamont.  I didn’t like them before they came [...]

Back in the day – preventing Spyware

I devised a method to prevent Spyware (and Webshots) from loading, using the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit Shim Application Database (sdbinst.db)

It worked well:        most people didn’t ring IT Security.

Why block Webshots?  There were two reasons:

it would cause Windows to crash and/or  Blue Screen bandwidth.  it gobbled bandwidth.

1. is [...]