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Jan 13	comment	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox @Arjan Updated post
Jan 13	revised	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox added screenshots of arjan's references
Jan 13	comment	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox @Arjan Thx for the reference
Jan 13	revised	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox added chrome
Jan 13	comment	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox I have posted a screenshot of firefox and chrome font settings
Jan 13	revised	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox added 91 characters in body
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Jan 13	comment	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox Both run on the same XP SP3 box.
Jan 13	asked	Displaying Unicode on Chrome vs Firefox
Jan 6	awarded	Popular Question
Jan 6	awarded	Benefactor
Jan 5	comment	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail since i didn't save any logs, i am not expecting a specific answer to my question like say the virus was Win32.Backdoor.AOL, but I am expecting a general categorization of the virus, it's frequency in the wild and want to hear people who have experienced something similar.
Jan 5	comment	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail some tour de force. any virus with self respect wouldn't show off. that's what made me think of the utility of showing the window to the user. Were the malware makers expecting the user to type in the captcha?
Jan 4	accepted	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail
Jan 4	comment	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail so it could be a bot + human setting up ids. or it could be someone registering a genuine id, but in the latter case why would i be able to see them, and since explorer.exe was talking directly to yahoo ip, it meant that i was most probably not looking at a remote window. but since someone was typing in the captcha(according to the reasoning, but which i don't remember observing), someone could see my pc .
Jan 4	comment	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail The yahoo ip resolved to a pop domain, which meant that the explorer.exe was trying to retrieve emails from yahoo. Which also means a successful registration, which means someone typed in the captcha, which means it most certainly was not just a bot(most probably a bot plus a human for captcha). I also remember seeing them change profile details, which also means successful registration.
Jan 4	comment	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail I made up the Homer Stinson name(from 2 TV funny men names), to "protect" the identity of the "other" person who I thought had a tiny chance of being a real person. The popped up window grouped itself with other explorer windows(see taskbar in screenshot) and since it displayed the email registration pages(which included yahoo) it showed up in active ports as talking to that remote ip. I should check whether this is true nonetheless.
Jan 4	comment	Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail i went ahead with a clean install, but did not format my drive. Was intrigued because I thought it could be a bot registering email id's waiting for me to enter the captcha. or, it could be me watching someone else genuinely registering a email id(less likely). Disturbing.
Jan 3	awarded	Teacher
Jan 3	comment	Should I get integrated graphics if I already have a dedicated GPU? @Ivo since you have a gtx 460, go for a P67 based motherboard, because you get overclocking. However if you do not want overclocking and want to have the comfort of a fall back incase your gtx 460 fails, go for the h67. Nothing much otherwise.