A virus is a virus no matter what

I’ve just stumbled upon this article stating the the IFPI – the international equivalent of the RIAA – has just released a virus that will delete your P2P software.
Now I find this act to be criminal.
All the recent worm writers that were caught and legal action was taken against them. This virus is sponsored by [...]

posted in Opinion by Eran Sandler

Google Talk Log Abilities

As my good friend Dudu pointed out (and I forgot to tell you), Google Talk’s log abilities are very limited.
It only saves the last 20 lines of chat (and only if the window was closed properly, otherwise it will NOT save the log).
Since Google Talk currently lack any normal API (heck, its just one executable [...]

posted in Google, Google Talk, Instant Messaging by Eran Sandler

Google Talk Chat Log Viewer

After discovering the Google Talk Chat Log format and seeing that its not human readable, I’ve decided to write a log viewer so I can check out and read my logs whenever I want to.
You can download the Google Talk Chat Log Viewer v0.1 from here .
I’ve also written there the Google Talk Chat Log [...]

posted in Google, Google Talk, Instant Messaging by Eran Sandler

How to edit/delete Google Talk custom messages

Google Talk stored all of your custom messages that you have entered in a file in your user profile directory.
The file is located at “%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\status”
Inside you will find a file named in the format [userid]-history.txt.
So if your Gmail account is John.Dow@gmail.com the filename will be john.dow_gmail.com-history.txt (besides, there is usually only one [...]

posted in Google, Google Talk, Instant Messaging, Tips n' Tricks by Eran Sandler

How to disable Google Talk Auto Update

If you every wondered how to disable Google Talk’s auto update feature, I found an easy way of doing this which, at least for now, seems to work.
NOTE:
Be sure to backup the registry entries before using the registry’s Export feature when standing on the Google Talk AutoUpdate key.

Close Google Talk
Open the registry (using regedit.exe)
Go to [...]

posted in Google, Google Talk, Instant Messaging, Tips n' Tricks by Eran Sandler