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Friday the 8th of January 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Friday the 8th of January 2010

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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Troj/Agent-MCT on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmct.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MCU on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmcu.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Inject-LP on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojinjectlp.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Java-B on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjavab.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/KeyLog-LZ on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojkeyloglz.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Kurit-Gen on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojkuritgen.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Nyrate-C on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojnyratec.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Nyrate-D on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojnyrated.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PDFJs-GM on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpdfjsgm.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/VB-ELX on 8 January 2010 11:53:03 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojvbelx.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Bosk5PuJoUs/IPv4-Will-Not-Die-In-2010)
darthcamaro writes "A couple of years ago, the big shots at IANA (that's the people that handle internet addressing) issued a release stating that the IPv4 address space was likely to be gone by 2010. Here we are in 2010 and guess what, IPv4 with its 4.3 billion addresses will NOT be all used up this year. In fact there could be another two years worth of addresses still left at this point. 'We're at about 10.2 percent (IPv4 address space) remaining globally," John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN said. "At our current trend rate we've got about 625 days before we will not have new IPv4 addresses available. We're still handling IPv4 requests from ISPs, hosting companies and large users for IPv4 address space, but that's a very short time period.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Intel Launches Wi-Di
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z7BuDB-NaNU/Intel-Launches-Wi-Di)
Barence writes "Intel has launched a new display technology called Wi-Di at CES. Intel Wireless Display uses Wi-Fi to wirelessly transmit video from PCs running Intel's latest generation of Core processors to HD television sets. Televisions will require a special adapter made by companies such as Netgear — which will cost around $100 — to receive the wireless video signals. Intel also revealed its optical interconnect technology, Light Peak, will be in PCs 'in about a year'."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Razer, Valve, and Sixense Working On Motion Control For PC Games
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uFVL4hka9LY/Razer-Valve-and-Sixense-Working-On-Motion-Control-For-PC-Games)
An anonymous reader sends along this excerpt from Shacknews: "Gaming hardware developer Razer has announced a new multi-year partnership with Sixense Entertainment and Valve Software to deliver a '...revolutionary true-to-life, next-generation motion sensing and gesture recognition controller for PC gaming.' Razer, Valve, and Sixense, along with a selection of PC OEM partners, are aiming to produce '...ultra-precise one-to-one motion sensing controllers that use electromagnetic fields to track precise movements along all six axes.' Each controller will reportedly track its orientation within a single degree, and detect positioning within one millimeter. Thankfully, the device will be compatible with both current and future generation PC games."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- France Considers 'Pirate Tax' For Online Ads
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X2lP5u4Fdag/France-Considers-Pirate-Tax-For-Online-Ads)
angry tapir writes "A report commissioned by the French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand urges the introduction of a tax on online advertising such as that carried by Google, which would be used to pay the creators of artistic and other works that lose out to online piracy."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- M.U.L.E. Is Back
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xS8GL9mlGV4/emMULEem-Is-Back)
jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BW01LLoB7zk/Full-Body-Scanners-Violate-Child-Porn-Laws)
gandhi_2 writes "The Guardian has a story about an ongoing legal battle over the use of full body scanners in the UK. The Protection of Children Act 1978, includes provisions in which it is illegal to create an indecent image or a "pseudo-image" of a child....which a full body scanner does."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vNDC0s4eW-k/The-9-Most-Tested-Lab-Animals)
An anonymous reader writes "Discover Magazine has this odd photo gallery in which they explain why certain animals are used in scientific research. Why are high-tech contact lenses always tried out in rabbits? Why do we study monogamy in prairie voles? Etc. They say of the 9 animals: 'Taken (or stitched) together, they form a kind of laboratory doppelganger for humans.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Mexico Wants Payment For Aztec Images
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LeloSdVEOak/Mexico-Wants-Payment-For-Aztec-Images)
innocent_white_lamb writes "Starbucks brought out a line of cups with prehistoric Aztec images on them. Now the government of Mexico wants them to pay for the use of the images. Does the copyright on an image last hundreds of years?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- FCC Wants More Time To Craft Broadband Plan
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/igAv7w3PYHg/FCC-Wants-More-Time-To-Craft-Broadband-Plan)
adeelarshad82 writes "Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission Chairman, has sent out a letter to Congress requesting more time for the commission to deliver its national broadband plan. According to the stimulus bill passed in early 2009, the FCC was to come up with a plan to provide all citizens with access to broadband services and deliver it to the committee by February 17, 2010. Even though an outline of the plan was released last month, FCC is requesting till March 17, 2010 to finalize the plan."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- USGS Develops Twitter-Based Earthquake Detection
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/57t22nH7meY/USGS-Develops-Twitter-Based-Earthquake-Detection)
sprinkletown writes "A team of seismologists at the US Geological Survey has found that Twitter is the fastest way to get information out of an earthquake area, especially in those less densely populated. Seeing the Twitter community as an untapped resource, the USGS has developed a new way to track earthquakes by clustering quake-centric tweets."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qQt5OBZ6rMs/Using-a-Toy-Train-To-Calibrate-a-Reactor)
alfredos writes "Physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built tracks inside a fusion reactor and ran a toy train for three days to help them with their calibrations. From the article: 'The modified model of a diesel train engine was carrying a small chunk of californium-252, a radioactive element that spews neutrons as it falls apart. “We needed to refine the calibration technique to make sure we are measuring our neutrons as accurately as possible,” said Masa Ono, the project head of the National Spherical Torus Experiment.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 400 Years Ago, Galileo Discovered Four Jovian Moons
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gkoa2C_U3F0/400-Years-Ago-Galileo-Discovered-Four-Jovian-Moons)
krswan writes "OK, the moons themselves are much older, but on January 7, 1610 Galileo first observed '4 fixed stars' surrounding Jupiter. Observations of their changing positions led Galileo to postulate they were really moons orbiting Jupiter, which became further evidence against Aristotelian Cosmology, which led to problems with the Roman Catholic Church, etc... Jupiter will be low in the southwest (in the Northern Hemisphere) after sunset this evening — nothing else around it is as bright, so you can't miss it. Celebrate by pointing binoculars or a telescope at Jupiter and checking out the moons for yourself."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y4QPy53JRxo/Netflix-Will-Delay-Renting-New-WB-Releases)
DesertBlade tips the news that Netflix will delay renting new releases from Warner Brothers for 28 days, and adds "Luckily I am so far behind in my movie watching that I will probably never catch up anyway." "It's part of a strategy by several studios to create staggered releases of DVDs so that the most profitable transactions are available first and cheaper rental options take effect further down the road. The move could be copied by other studios, forcing consumers to wait nearly a month if they want to rent popular movies from Netflix. ... The studio is hoping that the four-week window will push consumers interested in watching movies at home to buy the DVDs or pay a premium to rent them from stores like Blockbuster or from Internet and cable video-on-demand services. Warner Bros. already imposes a 28-day window on $1-a-night kiosk firm Redbox."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jCXh23TJVU8/Hotmailers-Hawking-Hoax-Hunan-Half-Offs)
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "An estimated 200,000 Hotmail users currently have their auto-reply set to a message spamming an advertisement for Chinese scam websites, which sell "discounted" electronics. Presumably the spammers compromised a large number of Hotmail accounts to pull this off, but wouldn't it be pretty easy for Hotmail to query for which users have that set as their auto-reply, and turn the auto-reply off for them?" Read below for Bennet's thoughts.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- AMD Launches World's First Mobile DirectX 11 GPUs
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J-22P8cqKKo/AMD-Launches-Worlds-First-Mobile-DirectX-11-GPUs)
J. Dzhugashvili writes "Less than 4 months after releasing the first DX11 desktop graphics card, AMD has followed up with a whole lineup of mobile graphics processors based on the same architecture. The new Mobility Radeon HD 5000 lineup includes four different series of GPUs designed to serve everything from high-end gaming notebooks to mainstream thin-and-light systems. AMD has based these processors on the same silicon chips as its desktop Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards, so performance shouldn't disappoint. The company also intends to follow Nvidia's lead by offering notebook graphics drivers directly from its website, as opposed to relying on laptop vendors to provide updates."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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-- Sound is not working
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: Sound is not working on my computer. Everything is plugged in. Nothing is on mute, sound card/scheme is on default. When we turn the speakers on the sound of them turning is present. It may be just the computer, but I am unaware of what else I can do or check.

Answer: Firstly make sure that your sound card is working properly - via control panel, System and click on hardware. Secondly, ensure that the speakers are plugged into the correct computer socket (there are usually three) and experiment with this.If none of this works then I suggest contacting the manufacturer or your speakers/machine

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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