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First update of 2010 – New PC, Solid State Hard Drive, and more

Wow, has it been a long time or what? I haven’t updated since last year. I’ve been working on many non-software-related things in the meantime and haven’t had the time to fix and update the site lately. Here’s a list of what’s been going on lately:

Going to m.minousoft.com now serves as a shortcut to the condensed mobile version [...]

Minousoft File Hosting attacked by hackers

We’re sorry, everyone.

Due to an overflow vulnerability in the hosting script, the hosting page has been taken down, thanks to some so-called ‘terrorists.’ NO USER DATA IS OR WAS AT STAKE, HOWEVER ALL DOWNLOADS HAVE BEEN REMOVED.

Preparing for the Conficker worm

The Conficker computer worm, which has infected more than 9 million computers worldwide, will activate its new payload download mechanism tomorrow on April 1st. Make sure that your computers are protected from the worm, and be prepared for any network outages that may occur as a result of the worm traffic. If you have the [...]

Sporkbomb

This just in: hxhl95 reports that Sporkbomb B somehow managed to corrupt the MFT (master file table) and boot records on his PC’s hard drive. Don’t try this at home.

Yesterday, I was a bit bored and decided to make a Windows forkbomb.

Definition: forkbomb»

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN ANY OF THE CODE EXAMPLES PRESENTED [...]

NtSetSystemPowerState Documented

Deep inside the Windows kernel, there crawls many, many undocumented functions. With Microsoft’s secrecy, developers have only been able to document most of them, but not all.

There is one function, however, that has been known to exist but is not documented anywhere (or at least not in any source I’ve seen). That function is NtSetSystemPowerState. [...]