Archive for October, 2007

PHP Secure Mailer Script

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

In order to circumvent the harvesting of email addresses from a page, many web designers are putting form mailers into their pages. Sadly, most aren't taking security into account, and it is just adding to already monumental Spam problems.

The biggest problem is with Header Injection. There are a ton of good articles on the web about how to keep malicious users from injecting headers with a mailer script. Just run "php mail header injection" through a Google search, and you will find some. (more...)

Logitech Setpoint and the Annoying Low Battery Warning

Friday, October 5th, 2007

If any of you have a Logitech wireless mouse, and you have the Logitech Setpoint software installed, you've surely noticed that the Low Battery Warning popup gets annoying, really quick.

 It's not very accurate.  When it starts reporting my batteries as being "CRITICAL", it means that I have about two weeks of using my mouse left before the mouse starts having communication issues.   I'd rather not be forced to buy new batteries every three weeks just to shut up an annoying popup. (more...)