Archive for October, 2007

Nonsecurity: CanIt Virus Scanner

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

This post was originally published on August 15, 2007 at 3:26 PM.

Yesterday I received a .jar file1 that had been forwarded to me via e-mail. While reading the message, this caught my eye:

*********************** Warning: Your file, SeeLogo.jar, contains more than 32 files after decompression and cannot be scanned. ***********************

Apparently all it takes to defeat this e-mail virus [...]

BitTorrent over SSH

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

(This guide is for users of Mac OS X, although it may extend to other UNIX-like environments such as Ubuntu. For Windows instructions, look into TorrentFreak’s article on the subject.)

I found this guide over at Whalesalad explaining how to get Azureus to tunnel over SSH, but I couldn’t get it to work. Then I found [...]