Tag: COM

One thing I've found with a number of the malware infections that come across my workbench is that they do their best to make it difficult to run cleanup tools like MalwareBytes and SmitFraudFix. In typical malware author fashion, however, their application-blocking abilities are lazily programmed and pretty easy to sidestep. Here's what I do when an infection won't let me run my favorite ...

If you grew up in the 80's in the golden age of video game arcades, you're going to like this Time Waster. Classic 80's Arcade Games is actually a mega time waster, since it's a site dedicated to 80's arcade games, with tons of free online-playable games. Games like 1943, Commando, Contra, Defender, Dig Dug, Frogger... the list just goes on and on. The games are built on various platforms - ...

If you have applications written in Visual Basic 6 (VB6) it would force you to rewrite the entire thing to bring it into Visual Basic.net. Have no fear, an add-in tool from Microsoft is here. Microsoft's Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 (free download) is an add-in for VB6 that will bring .net WinForms to your VB6 application. Microsoft's goal here was to help developers stuck between both worlds to ...