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Butter Chicken and Naan

Posted by admin On April - 2 - 2009

butterchickenMy mouth is watering just writing a post about it, Butter Chicken or sometimes called Murgh Makhani is my favourite Indian meal, if not my favourite foreign meal all together. Actually to tell the truth Butter Chicken is not a traditional Indian dish and I have read somewhere that it was actually developed in the UK. Nevertheless, it is still my favourite and when ever i bring it up in conversation all mouths rave about it.

I must say though that no two Butter Chicken meals are ever the same between restaurants and the difference is huge, which is probably down to the fact of each cooks own special recipe and personal tastes. In my time I have sampled a large amount of Butter Chicken and I personally like the Butter Chicken which you can get from an Indian outlet in my local malls food court . I have not had better elsewhere, ever! Last but not least, I must not forget the Naan. Dipping Naan into the Butter Chicken sauce makes for the ultimate meal.

April Fools - Conficker Virus

Posted by admin On April - 1 - 2009

Conficker or sometimes called Downadup or Kido has had a bit of publicity recently due to the havoc it is meant to reek on April 1st, April Fools day. I was a bit sceptical at first but sure enough when i got to work today the first signs of it appeared. At work we support a large amount of computers approx 800 which are all networked together and we had a dozen or so phone calls relating to our antivirus software detecting a virus from end users.

I wont go into any detail but we searched the Internet and found out a few ways to stop Conficker from spreading further on the network than it had and information on security updates to immunize computers against it. To sum it all up, if your computer is up to date with windows updates and your antivirus software has up to day definitions then you are safe, the handful of computers we witnessed with Conficker we ones which for some reason or another weren’t up to date.

Conficker is known to mostly spread across networks in shared folders but is also known to spread through the use of USB flash drives. If it finds a vulnerable computer, it turns off vital services which keep the computer safe such as windows update, restore points and security services. It can also hijack your web browser and direct the unsuspecting to sales and download pages of malware programs. Eventually, if not already, the Conficker worm will have a strong infrastructure for cyber crimes. No one knows what exactly yet, but it will more than likely be more the usual such as botnet which is rented out to cyber criminals to send copious amounts of spam, steal identities and direct users to phishing sites.conficker