The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting library is an encoding library designed to protect ASP.NET applications from cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This library differs from other encoding libraries in that it uses the the principle of inclusions technique to provide a high degree of protection against XSS attacks. For those of you that build Web Applications this is a library that should always be used.

Recently I came to realize the real threat spammers pose to the Internet community. After trying for two days (30 hours) to find out why a web application, that was up to recently flawless, was not responding on a non deterministic basis, I discovered (the hard way) that it had been exploited by spammers, in order to send their emails. Sending thousands of emails each day the spammers have actually accomplished a DOS (Denial of service) attack on it. So what’s the lessons learned here… a)      Design your web applications having security always (I don’t...

Continuing my Vista setup and exploration, I begun installing all the software and components I used in order to develop software. Most of the MSI installation packages (including Microsoft's CAB) though failed to complete under Vista.It seems that some kind of privileged action needed in order to complete the installation, which is probably write access to the program files directory in order to write an InstallerState file is not allowed not even when the executable is running under an administrative account. The error message says that “Access to the path c:\program files\program\programInstall.InstallState is denied (P.S not event the administrator can change the access...