Software utilities

Recently I had to modify the header and footer of a word document. I didn’t notice it before, but it was edit protected, so all the options in word, such as cut and paste, where grayed out. I found out a simple way to remove document protection from a Word 2007 document, but not for a .doc document. Well, it’s really simple! Just convert the Word XP/2003 document to the new .docx format and then open it as a zip file (just rename it to .zip), edit the settings.xml file, removing the attributes of the <w:documentProtection> tag, update the zip file, rename it to .docx and opne it! You’re done!

A fully-functional iSCSI initiator

Building a SAN is not possible without a fully-functional iSCSI initiator. The wide range of features should be combined with an affordable price otherwise the product will never become the market leader. StarPort Professional is an iSCSI initiator that offers extensive list of features at low price – let’s have a closer look.

First of all, the StarPort Professional is a powerful iSCSI initiator. iSCSI uses standard TCP/IP to transmit data packets. In other words, iSCSI allows two hosts to connect and exchange SCSI commands over IP networks. iSCSI takes a popular high-performance local storage bus and emulates (virtualizes) it over the networks. iSCSI operates through your existing switching and IP infrastructure – so you need no additional hardware investment. Remote storage is represented as a local hard drive. You can view it as a device through Windows Explorer and manage it just like any local hard drive or other storage device.
StarPort Professional fully implements the iSCSI client side protocol enabling you to connect to a full range of remote devices such as disk arrays, tape drives, DVD-ROM, BD-ROM and HD-DVD image libraries. The StarPort Professional also supports ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) which is a network protocol designed for simple high-performance access to SATA storage devices over Ethernet. AoE does not rely on network layers above Ethernet, such as IP and TCP. It is more comparable to Fibre Channel over Ethernet than iSCSI. StarPort Professional AoE support enables connectivity to remote storage devices over a standard Ethernet network, regardless of where the device resides. Another StarPort Professional’s feature is encryption support. Whenever StarPort Professional creates an image file, it can optionally encrypt it and export it to a iSCSI target. Encryption increases the target’s security and prevents unauthorized access. The last but not the least StarPort Professional’s feature is Ultra Fast CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, HD DVD-ROM, BD-ROM Emulation. It allows you to use virtual optical drives when and where you need them. The fact that all these features are available for less than 100 USD makes the product stand out among its competitors.

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Today I created a workbook in Excel 2007. After working on it, i closed the file pressing the small red X at the top of the docuemnt. Everything was ok. But after that I tried closing Excel, and guess what… it didn’t! Also, besides remaining open, all the menu items and buttons where grayed out! The only one which wasn’t was the send –> Bluetooth menu! So I went to the add-in menu and disabled the option, and that’s it, noew everything works fine! Remember that to disable the option you have to opne Excel as an Administrator. I cannot do this in the start menu as I can do for almost every pogram, so i had to go to the program files foider (or, if you have win64, program files(x86)), then microsoft office, then office 12, and there right-click on excel.exe and choose run as administrator. After doing this, click the windows logo on the top left, choose excel options, then add-ins, the on the drop down list choose COM add ins, and there finally you can disable the bluetooth add-in in Excel 2007!

Enjoy!

Following on from my previous post about hackers, this is more like it. In the US, 38 spammers and hackers were charged on 65 counts this past Monday for taking part in a large scamming ring in which social security numbers, credit card details and other personal information were siphoned off unsuspecting people and financial institutions.

The ring’s base was in Romania, with rackets operating internationally including the United States, Canada, Portugal and Pakistan.

Similar to what hackers got up to in the last post, these hackers were sending emails with attachments which, when opened, downloaded spyware. The spyware would then read personal information and forward it on to a third party.

Another thing they’d apparently do was pretend to be a financial institution such as Wells Fargo, Citibank or Paypal. I’m sure we’ve all had one of those types of spammy emails, haven’t we? Typical scenario: you receive an email telling you that your Paypal account has been suspended and that to reactivate it, you need to click on a link. Now, some people instantly panic and click on the link – some people don’t.

With this one scam racket alone, thousands of Americans and hundreds of financial bodies were targeted. From their Romanian base, credit and debit card details, once obtained, were sent to their US-based scam cell and copied onto magnetic cards which could be used to withdraw funds from poor Mr X’s bank account (whom, I suspect, would be oblivious to what was going on ’til it was too late).

The article I read doesn’t mention how much they scammed off people but with the amount of people that were involved in the operation, it’s bound to be a lot. I mean, why would any of them get involved if there wasn’t the promise of a significant amount of money?