A short remark...

Greetings to everyone, I have a short remark here.

As usual, I only write when I've something to share. Therefore, I rarely update this site.

Meanwhile, I would suggest you to subscribe for updates by typing in your e-mail address in the text box provided at the side bar so that you will receive the updates once I'm back. Don't worry, no spamming. :)

Just chill while waiting for some interesting topics or issues.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Merry Christmas!

To all my fellow friends, teachers, lecturers and everyone....

Let me wish you a ...



Enjoy your holidays ya...

Friday, December 15, 2006

INFOSEC.my Knowledge Sharing Session

Wow... once again a FREE seminar knowledge sharing session.

This session is mainly focused on Information Security.

I can't say much. However, you may find more information from here:
http://niser.org.my/infosec-my/index.html

At the same time I would like to introduce a VERY interesting website where you can find the up-to-date info on national ICT security. The National ICT Security and Emergency Response Center (NISER). There are LOTS of published research papers and statistics here.
http://www.niser.org.my

Most probably, I might not be attending this event. :(
If you are going, PLEASE share with me what they've said.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Recovering from disaster, Zone Alarm

All the while I was happy that Zone Alarm freeware was doing great jobs.

It will notify me whenever there are some unauthorized access comming to my computer.

It even blocks the LAN ports such as file and printer sharing. I can't even 'ping' to my own computer. It was great.

Until one day the program starts to show some abnormal characteristics. I booted my computer as usual and noticed that it REALLY slow!. I had no idea as this was my first encounter with program.

So, I waited for some time and take a look on the Windows Task Manager and it shows that the program vsmon.exe was the culprit. Consuming exessive memory until too much of virtual memory being consumed.

The image below shows the system's status after ending the VSMON.EXE process.


This problem really gave me a bad time... :( I can connect to internet and browse for nearly 15 minutes only. After that, the HTTP port will get blocked and I cannot browse anymore. But, I can still chat on YM and MSN....

Then it took me sometime to know that what is this and why is this happening. Finally, I learned that Zone Alarm is the main cause of this problem. The program VSMON.EXE is actually the service so-called TrueVector Internet Monitor.

Therefore, I hope that Zone Alarm will fix this bug in the comming versions.
Well, I can't say much because afterall this is a freeware.

Further info:
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/vsmon.exe.html

Monday, December 04, 2006

Blog: Updated (1.1)

Alhamdulillah, finally I managed to update the interface of my funny blog.

Among the updates:
- I've selected a new template
- A sneak preview on my photo blog
- Feeds via e-mail (Subscribe updates)
- New links
- More links to my friend's blog(s)
- New feed methods (eg. add to Google, My Yahoo, etc)
- ShoutBox (Feel free to leave messages..) :P

Well, I'm planning to add more useful stuffs.
Its just a matter of time investment.

Feel free to give me your comments and suggestion.