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Avast thinks Hulu is a Malicious Site

I went to Hulu this afternoon to catch up on my HEROES. I didn’t get to see it on Monday, so I knew that I could go up there and watch the show without issue. Or COULD I?

Turns out Avast won’t have it. It is blocking the SWF from playing and saying “Malicious Code”. Tried a few times in Firefox and IE. Every show or movie I try to play comes up with the same thing.

Here’s the kicker – neither Avast nor the Event viewer is showing any more info. In fact, it’s not even logging the event!

Could this be a malicious code? Could it be that Avasts’ database is off? Maybe Hulu changed some stuff to thwart Boxee from going through the RSS backdoor?

Well, there is a way around that. I went to NBC.com and watched the episode. I hope it’s not a real issue on Hulu…

**Update – Avast has posted an update to allow the Hulu SWF through. There was still no Event log on what it blocked**

During Mondays’ live show, we talked about Tracert – a cool little program that will show where your request travels to before it gets to the intended destination.

Every Monday Geekazine will be running a Live show talking Tech and Answering Questions. The fun starts at 7 PM EST and will go until the questions are answered.

 Call 608-205-4378 and leave your questions at the beep. Or Email them to Geekazine@gmail.com. We’ll then read off the questions and give the best answer possible!

 Http://live.geekazine.com or http://ustream.tv/channel/geekazine

Monday brings This Week in Tech History – a look at what happened this week for geek.  

Some Highlights of the week

• St Patty’s Day!
• DVD Players
• MIR
• Microsoft DOS
• BLEEM

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Snafu.  Freedictionary.com defines it as “A chaotic or confused situation”. The word SNAFU is an acronym, in which most of it I cannot decode here, so I’ll fudge it a bit. Situation Normal All Fouled Up.

If you were to go through a snafu a few years ago with a company, you would most likely grumble to your friends and family and then move on – Little impact on that. However, in this day and age, a Snafu can really come back to hurt. With Social Networking rising 47 percent year to year (according to Nielsen Netratings), this can really give companies a tough time if problems arise. But still, can social networking cause a company hardship because of a single or series of transactions?

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Oink, Wikileaks, Stage 6, MisicBrigade and Yahoo Music. What do all of these items have in common, well, they all are or will be shutdown. The internet grows daily – new websites start, and new websites fall.  Sometimes you can pick up the pieces and turn it into a profit, sometimes it’s just a name in the dust.

On Monday, DivX Stage 6 – a popular video website and used to pirate a lot of videos, has decided to close it’s doors on Feb 28th. The site let users upload their favorite videos to share. Some of them were legal, home-made videos. Others were pirated movies and television series. You could watch them right there, or you could download them and watch them later – considering if you had installed the DivX codecs.

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*UPDATE: There is rumor that Bloglines could shut down as well. Although not a valid source, it would be a big blow to Social Networking. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/24/bloglines-suffers-major-outage-heading-for-the-deadpool/

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