I never thought I would see the day.

Putty has a security vulnerability. A new version is available.

We have found that by sending specially crafted packets to the client during the authentication process, an attacker is able to compromise and execute arbitrary code on the machine running PuTTY or PSCP.

In SSH2, an attacker impersonating a trusted host can launch an attack before the client has the ability to determine the difference between the trusted and fake host. This attack is performed before host key verification.

This page has a Real Player clone, only without all of the annoying crap. Haven't tested it out much but definately a great idea.

I am thinking about removing 3FS's referrer page. It has been completely overrun by log-spammers. It generates some traffic because people like to search for the terms used in the spammer's domains (the domains are on the page and therefore in the search engine, then the search results w/ the phrases in them show up creating something of a feedback loop), but I don't really like the idea of helping annoying and destructive spammers just to get some totally random traffic. Maybe I should leave it up, but remove all links to it...

Any thoughts?

In other 3FS news, I added the 24th geek pickup line to the list the other day.

I tried a couple new tools today. First was an extension for Mozilla, Piro's Tabbrowser Extensions and it is working great so far...but the known problems kinda worry me.

This extension sometimes causes crush when you show popup menus, load webpages, or operate tabs, because it intrudes into operations about loading pages, showing popups, add/remove tabs, etc. Please don't use it if you would like to use stable browser.

Unclosable tabs are opened when Preferences Toolbar (or other add-ons) is installed.

I gave up on another extension, multizilla, because it caused problems with Ilohamail and made Mozilla crash a lot (that was a while ago, it might have improved since). One of the main features I am looking for common to these extensions is draggable tabs, and I would prefer to have this feature without messing with extensions (1.6 maybe?).

The other program I tried out is the other Mozilla browser, Firebird. It is like a stripped down version of Mozilla. It does away with a lot of the less used features and it isn't as pretty, but it is faster. I have set my computer at work to use it as the default browser because it loads much faster than Mozilla or IE.

In related news, Microsoft is going to add pop-up blocking to Internet Explorer next year. This is something that Mozilla (and Thunderbird) have had for a very long time. If Microsoft added tabbed browsing to IE, and dealt with some of its bugs and standards compatibility problems, it might almost be usable.