Cannot Share Files on the Network
Posted by Loved Flock at Friday, March 12, 2010
Today I have faced some issue in one of the PC of my friend in her office. I am a technician and I was called to fix the problem . She can access the internet but she cannot share files and view shared files on the network.After checking everything I found the cause of the problem, The default workgroup name of her PC was changed. Another problem was I cannot add the machine to the domain because the option to click the "change" button is greyed out and therefore cant change the workgroup name.
To fix this problem we need to do the following procedures.
* In run command, open the services.msc
* Search the workstation services and start it.
* Then change the workgroup into its default name.
Note that the workstation service is the client for Microsoft networks and if it is stopped, it affects your computers ability to communicate on the LAN.
If workstation services is missing try to installing it from the Local Area Network connection properties.
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Posted by Loved Flock at Thursday, March 11, 2010Facebook Location Features
Posted by Loved Flock at Wednesday, March 10, 2010
According to the report on the NYT’s Bits blog facebook will be adding a location features. This sounds really interesting. Site users, according to the post, will be able to add their locations to status updates on Facebook. Assuming that this is true, do you like the idea of location-based features on Facebook?I think this will be a big impact in privacy issue and maybe there will be few complains unless this is locked down tightly by security features but this is very helpful in some user in many ways.
The usefulness and the disadvantages in this idea will be only known when this will be implemented. This would be a nice thing to have, but we have to be very careful about it.
Danger of Using F1 key: XP User
Posted by Loved Flock at Thursday, March 04, 2010
If you're an XP user then you are using internet explorer for browsing the web and see a notice that you should press the F1 key (help button for any application), please don't do.Microsoft has told Windows XP users not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer.
In a security advisory issued late Monday, Microsoft confirmed the unpatched bug in VBScript that first revealed by Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus last Friday. Prodeus offered more information on the flaw and provided some advice on how to protect PCs until a patch shipped. He said that the vulnerability exists in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer and If a malicious website displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed in the security context of the currently logged-on user.
As of now Microsoft continue to encourage responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities. They are advising users that, until a patch can be written and released, users are advised not to press the F1 key while web browsing even how many times the pop-up convincing us to press it.


