Month: July 2015
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RealPlayer/RealDownloader poses as Firefox running on 64-bit Linux and sends HEAD and GET requests
I recently noticed some strange HTTP logs where a resource would be requested twice with two different User-Agent headers. In one case, the first request suggested the client was running Chrome on Windows, while the second request indicated that it was coming from Firefox on Linux. This didn’t make a lot of sense, so I…
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I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature: The 'Get Windows 10' notification area icon
As the great Raymond Chen once wrote: I often find myself saying, “I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature.” “That feature” is something aggressively user-hostile, like forcing a shortcut into the Quick Launch bar or the Favorites menu, like automatically turning on a taskbar toolbar, like adding an icon to the…