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Mitchell Baker (yes! a girl!:) - president of mozilla foundation europe - statement about the "feature": # We included the search plugin for ebay.de because we thought they would be useful to people. This was the only reason. # It's very helpful to know how many searches are initiated from the search box as opposed to the URL bar. To do this requires having the browser send a piece of information to the website so it's clear the search was started in the search box. This "identify as search box initiated search" is the ONLY new thing that happens with the ebay.de search plugin. # The providers of the search plugins give us the URL to which search queries should go. In most cases, this URL is to the main search engine system -- yahoo.de, google.de, etc. It appears that ebay.de has done something different, and given us a URL that doesn't point directly to ebay.de. # I understand there is concern, or at least a lack of clarity about this.
If people download these documents from kazaa or some other p2p network, who is to tell if the information in these documents hasn't been tampered with ?
MD5 exists, and can easily be integrated in any p2p client.
"GeCAD Press Release: GeCAD's Antivirus technology to be acquired by Microsoft (Date: 2003-06-10)
Bucharest, June 10, 2003 - GeCAD Software has announced a definitive agreement with Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., USA, by which Microsoft will acquire GeCAD's antivirus technology. Microsoft has stated its intention to integrate GeCAD's technology into products and services that will help secure customers.
"The opportunity to integrate GeCAD technology into Microsoft's future antivirus efforts is a big step not only for us but for the entire Romanian I.T. industry," said Radu Georgescu, President of GeCAD. "Microsoft's choice of a Romanian technology attests to the tremendous software development potential in this country."
Bucharest based GeCAD is a leading technology company specialised in providing antivirus solutions for all categories of users. Since the creation of the company by entrepreneur Radu Georgescu in 1992 and launch of its first antivirus programme in 1994, GeCAD has grown to an international recognized software company with distributors in more than 60 countries. The company markets its products under the brand "RAV AntiVirus" which protects more than 10 million users worldwide. Many international awards and certifications, which include 'VB 100%', 'Checkmark' and 'ICSA', underscore the company's success as an antivirus solutions provider. More recently, GeCAD was awarded two special citations at the I.T. Awards ceremony in 2002 for the 'Best Romanian Software' and the 'Most Innovative Software Company'.
The GeCAD products feature the unique 'platform independent' antivirus scanning engine that revolutionized the antivirus market. It detects and removes viruses while acting also as signature database for all the modules and programs under any platform or operating system.
"The acquisition of GeCAD's technology will help secure customers by helping us deliver antivirus solutions for Microsoft products and services," said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Security Business Unit at Microsoft. "The significant expertise represented by GeCAD, along with partner antivirus software and our own platform investments, will help us mitigate the threats our customer face from those who write malicious code."
Commenting on this achievement, H.E President Ion Iliescu of Romania said -"I am a great believer in the tremendous I.T. and software development potential of our people and of our country, I am proud of GeCAD's success and look forward to other Romanian companies following this example."
Highlighting the importance of this acquisition from the perspective of further strengthening relations between American companies and Romania, H.E. Michael Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Romania said - "I'm delighted at this important acquisition by a first-class American company of a new technology produced here in Romania. This new step highlights even more Romania's clear potential in information technology -- an area in which Romanian students, researchers and entrepreneurs excel. I hope this will be the first of many more partnerships between U.S. and Romanian companies in this and other fields, aimed at broadening and deepening our bilateral trade and investment relationship."
GeCAD will continue to expand its services and security business and develop new non antivirus related technologies and software solutions."
Would be nice if the J2ME bluetooth specification would be implemented on PalmOS. That way we could write real cross platform applications for handhelds.
Seriously, have any other/.'ers created their own system?
Yes, I did. A simple gallery script I took from somewhere on the net and modified it to fit my needs. There is a cron job launching a perl script that downloads mails from a mailbox and puts the attachments on the gallery and the body of the mail under the image on the web page. Very simple, but allows me to blog from my mobile phone.
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No. It's an ActiveX that works only on Windows, so it's not multi platform and can not be included in the base FF code.
would perfer not to need to worry about another browser that might not follow standards.
If it's based on Firefox it uses the geko engine. No need to worry.
...is currently available for a limited download
:)
not anymore...
But I gotta love http://www.google.com/firefox :)
they have http://www.google.com/ie too
Hey! I have to become a Lawyer! I will become rich! And take over the world!!! Muahahahah
Mitchell Baker (yes! a girl! :) - president of mozilla foundation europe - statement about the "feature":
# We included the search plugin for ebay.de because we thought they would be useful to people. This was the only reason.
# It's very helpful to know how many searches are initiated from the search box as opposed to the URL bar. To do this requires having the browser send a piece of information to the website so it's clear the search was started in the search box. This "identify as search box initiated search" is the ONLY new thing that happens with the ebay.de search plugin.
# The providers of the search plugins give us the URL to which search queries should go. In most cases, this URL is to the main search engine system -- yahoo.de, google.de, etc. It appears that ebay.de has done something different, and given us a URL that doesn't point directly to ebay.de.
# I understand there is concern, or at least a lack of clarity about this.
FileZilla is not a XUL application.
That said, I'd imagine this [FileZilla] is written in xul + javascript, so it should be fine.
FileZilla has nothing to do with Mozilla.
FileZilla i written in C++ as yuo can see here, and not XUL + Javascript.
FOSS = Free Open Source Software
is using a QWERTY keyboard with nine out of ten fingers something worth knowing anymore?
:)
It is if you want a first post!!!
If people download these documents from kazaa or some other p2p network, who is to tell if the information in these documents hasn't been tampered with ?
MD5 exists, and can easily be integrated in any p2p client.
Will they be concerned enough that Linux and OS X users are worthwhile supporting to make sure it is cross-platform?
I will. And you?
So, what does it need to run, then?
Found embedded in the virus code... 56 42 56 63 72 69 70 74 20 72 6f 58 6f 72 7a 21
....
should be 56 42 53
A 64-bit processor has an upper limit of about 18 million terabytes... (32-bit = 0.0043 terabytes... 64-bit = 18,000,000 terabytes)
I think 18,000,000 TB should be enough for anyone.
here
Just have a look at the projects hosted on sf.
There are 12588 projects in Java. Right behind the 13922 in C++ and the 13785 in C.
So I guess, Java IS used a lot.
are you sure they will sell THIS AV?
the press release:
"GeCAD Press Release: GeCAD's Antivirus technology to be acquired by Microsoft (Date: 2003-06-10)
Bucharest, June 10, 2003 - GeCAD Software has announced a definitive agreement with Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., USA, by which Microsoft will acquire GeCAD's antivirus technology. Microsoft has stated its intention to integrate GeCAD's technology into products and services that will help secure customers.
"The opportunity to integrate GeCAD technology into Microsoft's future antivirus efforts is a big step not only for us but for the entire Romanian I.T. industry," said Radu Georgescu, President of GeCAD. "Microsoft's choice of a Romanian technology attests to the tremendous software development potential in this country."
Bucharest based GeCAD is a leading technology company specialised in providing antivirus solutions for all categories of users. Since the creation of the company by entrepreneur Radu Georgescu in 1992 and launch of its first antivirus programme in 1994, GeCAD has grown to an international recognized software company with distributors in more than 60 countries. The company markets its products under the brand "RAV AntiVirus" which protects more than 10 million users worldwide. Many international awards and certifications, which include 'VB 100%', 'Checkmark' and 'ICSA', underscore the company's success as an antivirus solutions provider.
More recently, GeCAD was awarded two special citations at the I.T. Awards ceremony in 2002 for the 'Best Romanian Software' and the 'Most Innovative Software Company'.
The GeCAD products feature the unique 'platform independent' antivirus scanning engine that revolutionized the antivirus market. It detects and removes viruses while acting also as signature database for all the modules and programs under any platform or operating system.
"The acquisition of GeCAD's technology will help secure customers by helping us deliver antivirus solutions for Microsoft products and services," said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Security Business Unit at Microsoft. "The significant expertise represented by GeCAD, along with partner antivirus software and our own platform investments, will help us mitigate the threats our customer face from those who write malicious code."
Commenting on this achievement, H.E President Ion Iliescu of Romania said -"I am a great believer in the tremendous I.T. and software development potential of our people and of our country, I am proud of GeCAD's success and look forward to other Romanian companies following this example."
Highlighting the importance of this acquisition from the perspective of further strengthening relations between American companies and Romania, H.E. Michael Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Romania said - "I'm delighted at this important acquisition by a first-class American company of a new technology produced here in Romania. This new step highlights even more Romania's clear potential in information technology -- an area in which Romanian students, researchers and entrepreneurs excel. I hope this will be the first of many more partnerships between U.S. and Romanian companies in this and other fields, aimed at broadening and deepening our bilateral trade and investment relationship."
GeCAD will continue to expand its services and security business and develop new non antivirus related technologies and software solutions."
you buy protection from the same people you have to be protected from.
Would be nice if the J2ME bluetooth specification would be implemented on PalmOS. That way we could write real cross platform applications for handhelds.
here, here, here and here.
that's phpix, ain't it?
no. i'ts all pure perl.
Seriously, have any other /.'ers created their own system?
Yes, I did. A simple gallery script I took from somewhere on the net and modified it to fit my needs. There is a cron job launching a perl script that downloads mails from a mailbox and puts the attachments on the gallery and the body of the mail under the image on the web page.
Very simple, but allows me to blog from my mobile phone.
Is it possible to update FC1 to FC2 via yum?