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Friday the 25th of December 2009

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Friday the 25th of December 2009

1. Virus Warnings
2. Daily Technology News
3. Latest Shareware and Freeware
4. FAQ for the day
5. Advice of the day

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1. Latest Virus Alerts From Sophos
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Mal/AgRot-A on 25 December 2009 04:13:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malagrota.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MBD on 25 December 2009 04:13:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmbd.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Banker-EVH on 25 December 2009 04:13:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbankerevh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Inject-LH on 25 December 2009 04:13:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojinjectlh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DelpBanc-C on 24 December 2009 22:51:59 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdelpbancc.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Afcore-B on 24 December 2009 18:07:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malafcoreb.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Afcore-C on 24 December 2009 18:07:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malafcorec.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DelfInj-D on 24 December 2009 18:07:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdelfinjd.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Rootkit-HP on 24 December 2009 18:07:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojrootkithp.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Spy-FA on 24 December 2009 18:07:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojspyfa.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/De2eYmODhRM/Fraudulent-Anti-Terrorist-Software-Led-US-To-Ground-Planes)
The Register, citing this Playboy article, reports that a Nevada man named Dennis Montgomery was able in 2003 to connive his way into a position of respectability at the CIA on the basis of his company's claimed ability, using software, to "detect and decrypt 'barcodes' in broadcasts by Al Jazeera, the Qatari news station." Montgomery was CTO of Reno-based eTreppid Technologies, which produced bucketloads of data purported to represent "geographic coordinates and flight numbers" hidden in these broadcasts. All of which, it seems, was hokum, finally debunked in cooperation with a branch of the French intelligence service — but not, says the article, before the fabricated information, chalked up to "credible sources," was used as justification to ground some international flights, and even evacuate New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Gnome Switches Nautilus Back To Browser Mode
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9DVKnhdEbFQ/Gnome-Switches-Nautilus-Back-To-Browser-Mode)
An anonymous reader writes "In one of the ( Do the developers actually use their own software?) decisions in the Linux Desktop World , back in 2004 Gnome switched to the 'Spatial' view by default with their Nautilus file manager opening a new window with each new folder viewed. Many derided the decision as poor design or as being different for the sake of being different. Well, after five long years the Gnome powers that be have decided to switch back to browser mode."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/D09Eje-J9kQ/Texas-County-Will-Use-Twitter-To-Publish-Drunk-Drivers-Names)
alphadogg contributes this snippet from Network World: "If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter. That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated between Christmas and New Year's Eve. County Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor Warren Diepraam came up with the idea as a way of discouraging residents from getting behind the wheel while drunk. 'It's not a magic bullet that's going to end DWIs, but it's something to make people think twice before they get behind the wheel of a car and drive while they're intoxicated,' he said."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Cygwin 1.7 Released
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/T1wJ1UT8B7E/Cygwin-17-Released)
jensend writes "The 1.7 branch of Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows, has reached stable status after about 3 1/2 years of effort. Among many other changes, this release drops support for Windows 9x. Since the NT API and NT-based versions of Windows are more capable and somewhat less of a mismatch with POSIX (for instance, they include a security model), this has allowed for code path simplifications, better performance (particularly noticeable with pipe I/O), better security, and better POSIX compatibility."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Does Santa Hate Linux?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1AhE5BRcrpY/Does-Santa-Hate-Linux)
beernutmark writes "Well, it looks like Santa or at least Norad/Google hates Linux. This year, for the first time since its inception, Norad is not making a simple .kml file available for download to track Santa. You must connect to their website with a Windows/Mac browser and use the browser plugin. No full-screen Google Earth to look at the beautiful areas around Santa's path. (Anyone have any open source source kml files for tracking Santa or any idea how we can go about making one for 2010?)"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fj2bVqn96BM/Testing-Network-Changes-When-No-Test-Labs-Exist)
vvaduva writes "The ugly truth is that many network guys secretly work on production equipment all the time, or test things on production networks when they face impossible deadlines. Management often expects us to get a job done but refuse to provide funds for expensive lab equipment, test circuits and for reasonable time to get testing done before moving equipment or configs into production. How do most of you handle such situations, and what recommendation do you have for creating a network test lab on the cheap, especially when core network devices are vendor-centric, like Cisco?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M09O59AbtHs/Really-Misleading-Ads-From-Broadband-Providers)
Bourdain writes "Gizmodo has put together a good compilation of the — seemingly almost criminally — misleading (largely plain wrong) advertising from our favorite local monopolies. My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Launching Frequently Key To NASA Success
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/89zKt0P-ntg/Launching-Frequently-Key-To-NASA-Success)
teeks99 writes "Even NASA could benefit from the 'Launch Often' idea that is frequently referred to in the software development community. However, in NASA's case, the 'launch' is a bit more literal. Edward Lu, writing in the New York Times, points out that by lowering the consequences of launch failure, and making frequent launches available to engineers, NASA could open up a new wave of innovation in space exploration. If there were weekly launches of a rocket, there would be many opportunities for new ideas to be tried out in communications, remote sensing, orbital debris mitigation, robotic exploration, and even in developing technology for human spaceflight. Another benefit would be that the rockets would be well understood, which would improve reliability."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KK-ouOKLSEw/Amazing-New-Movies-of-Saturns-Moons)
RobGoldsmith writes "Like sugar plum fairies in 'The Nutcracker,' the moons of Saturn performed a celestial ballet before the eyes of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. New movies frame the moons' silent dance against the majestic sweep of the planet's rings and show as many as four moons gliding around one another."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qMbhggs6iDs/IsoHunt-Guilty-of-Inducing-Infringement)
roju writes "The MPAA has won a summary judgment against torrent indexing site isoHunt for inducing copyright infringement. Michael Geist notes that '[t]he judge ruled that the isoHunt case is little different from other US cases such as Napster and Grokster, therefore concluding that there is no need to proceed to a full trial and granting Columbia Pictures request for summary judgment.' Attorney Ben Sheffner, who worked on the case for Fox, explains some of the implications, noting that 'the most significant ruling in the opinion was the court's holding that the DMCA's safe harbors are simply not available where inducement has been established.' This case could have implications on other indexing sites, and creates a gap in the DMCA safe harbor provisions that could have far-reaching implications on other sites."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SoIbzhFGm3E/Networked-Christmas-Tree-Controlled-By-Twitter)
An anonymous reader writes "What's Twitter good for? How about crowd sourcing control of your Christmas tree. Dangerous Prototypes built an open source, networked Christmas tree that you can control from Twitter. Send a color or hexadecimal color code to @tweet_tree, then watch the color change on the live video stream. This project is based on an updated version of the open source business card size web server covered previously."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XL0EaYLNQhE/More-on-the-Waterworld-Goldilocks-Planet)
goldilocksmission writes with this snippet from Goldilocks Mission: "News spread recently about a super-earth-sized planet that has been recently discovered to contain one of the most essential compounds for life to exist in the universe: water. ... GJ1214b is a massive planet that can house about six earths and is about forty light-years away from us. ... The significant discovery leap of detecting Gliese 581d to the more goldilocks planet oriented GJ1214b is a testament to the advances in the technology of detecting earth-like exoplanets."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pTurUyPBkj4/Is-Neurostim-Becoming-a-Reality)
destinyland writes "There is a current mass market for 'cognitive enhancement' products — and arguments about the black market potential for neurostim. 'The same neurostim device that uses electric impulses from a brain implant to treat people with Parkinson's Disease can be tweaked by a few millimeters and pulse rates to make cocaine addicts feel like they are high all the time... Mix the glamour of surgical self-improvement with the geekiness of high-tech gadget fetishism and you have a niche cosmetic neurostim market waiting to be tapped...'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- "Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6wqfyqBnedM/Home-Batteries-Power-Houses-For-a-Week)
tjansen writes "Panasonic has announced plans to create 'home batteries.' They are lithium-ion batteries large enough to power a house for a week, making energy sources such as solar and wind power more feasible. Also, you can buy energy when it is cheapest, and don't need to worry about power outages anymore."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- All GPLed Code Removed From MonoDevelop
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HzPEVxgTeSU/All-GPLed-Code-Removed-From-MonoDevelop)
rysiek writes "A few days ago, Miguel de Icaza wrote on his blog that the whole of MonoDevelop is now 'free' of GPL-licensed code. 'MonoDevelop code is now LGPLv2 and MIT X11 licensed. We have removed all of the GPL code, allowing addins to use Apache, MS-PL code as well as allowing proprietary add-ins to be used with MonoDevelop (like RemObject's Oxygene).'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

3. Latest Shareware from Planet-Shareware
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4. FAQ of the day from Helpforce
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-- How can I copy two or three songs from one music CD to another?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: How can I copy two or three songs from different music Cd's and save them on another thru my CD Burner? I tried but it seems like they use track as a name of songs. and if they have the same track as a name that causes the Cd burner to fail>Also, I am getting error message when trying to copy thru my Cd Burner>> Buffer error or running out.

Answer: Hello Michael,I Would Recomend you to download those songs to your hard drive, grab them with some of those CD-to-MP3 Programs (easy CD Creator or Audiograbber) and then try to burn them, try changing the name, I'm sure you wont get an error msg, I've done it a couple of times and it works for me (by the way, if your CD burner program doesnt convert automatically MP3 to WAV Download MPEG Suite)For the Buffer Error, try to close every program you got open, leave the computer just burning the CD. Reply Posted on 31/8/2002 Althouth the above reply will work its and awfull big job for a few songs, i would get a copy of ahead nero 5.5 and install it, as when u drag a cd file on to the project it automaticly puts it as a temp file on the hard drive at a hugly fast speed and therfore lets u add as many files from different cd's as is needed!!!

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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