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Monday the 11th of January 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Monday the 11th 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-MDH on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmdh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DwnLdr-HZW on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldrhzw.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/IMPWS-Gen on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojimpwsgen.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PDFJs-EJ on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpdfjsej.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PDFJs-EU on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpdfjseu.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Poison-BU on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpoisonbu.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/VB-ELZ on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojvbelz.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Autoit-HZ on 11 January 2010 11:30:02 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32autoithz.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Krap-I on 11 January 2010 06:09:08 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malkrapi.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Dldr-CX on 11 January 2010 06:09:08 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdldrcx.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uAelHqQX5Dk/Does-a-Lame-E-Mail-Address-Really-Matter)
theodp writes "Over at the Chicago Tribune, freelance writer Nancy Anderson makes an embarrassing confession. It's 2010 and she still has an AOL e-mail address. 'You've got to get rid of that AOL address,' her publicist sister told her five years ago. 'It's bad for your image.' Image, shmimage, Anderson thought. 'If I do good work,' she asks, 'does my e-mail address really matter?' Good question. Would an AOL e-mail address — or another 'toxic' e-mail address — influence your decision to hire someone?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X4uy3hROn_g/Startup-Tests-Drugs-Aimed-at-Autism)
An anonymous reader sends in this link from Technology Review about a startup company testing drugs that may help those with autism-spectrum disorders — even adults. "Seaside Therapeutics, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, is testing two compounds for the treatment of fragile X syndrome, a rare, inherited form of intellectual disability linked to autism. The treatments have emerged from molecular studies of animal models that mirror the genetic mutations seen in humans. Researchers hope that the drugs, which are designed to correct abnormalities at the connections between neurons, will ultimately prove effective in other forms of autism spectrum disorders. ... The company is funded almost entirely by an undisclosed family investment of $60 million, with $6 million from the National Institutes of Health. [A spokesman] says that Seaside has enough funding to take its compounds through clinical testing and approval."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges"
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cgzRX6qIGU0/Malware-Threat-Reports-Are-Apples-and-Oranges)
Ant writes "The December malware threat reports are trickling in from vendors — and they all appear to be different. Fortinet, Sunbelt Software, and Kaspersky all published their lists of the most prevalent malware strains for the last month of 2009, but they didn't match up, leading to an admission that users will inevitably be confused by the results. Not only do the various security companies use different names for the threats they identify; they don't even identify the same threats."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Color E-Reader Tech To Challenge E-Ink Dominance
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fV8QC5Fiiho/New-Color-E-Reader-Tech-To-Challenge-E-Ink-Dominance)
Technology Review reports from the Consumer Elecronics Show in Las Vegas that potential e-reader competitors to E-Ink are everywhere. The current market leader in e-book displays is greyscale-only, and it takes a long time to change the display ("turn the page"), so video applications are not possible. E-Ink says they will have a color display shipping by late next year, but it will be dimmer than the current greyscale and its response time will still be too slow for video. The wannabe competitors — Pixel Qi, Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Liquavista, and Kent Displays — all do color and some of them can do video (Pixel Qi, Qualcomm, Liquavista), and some of them (Pixel Qi, Kent) are shipping now.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/17lEm62Aiq8/How-Earth-Avoided-a-Fiery-Premature-Death)
Hugh Pickens writes "Space.com has a piece about changing theories of planet migration. The classic picture suggests that planets like Earth should have plummeted into the sun while they were still planetesimals, asteroid-sized building blocks that eventually collide to form full-fledged planets. 'Well, this contradicts basic observational evidence, like We. Are. Here,' says astronomer Moredecai-Mark Mac Low. Researchers investigating this discrepancy came up with a new model that explains how planets can migrate as they're forming and still avoid a fiery premature death. One problem with the classic view of planet formation and migration is that it assumes that the temperature of the protoplanetary disk around a star is constant across its whole span. It turns out that portions of the disk are opaque and so cannot cool quickly by radiating heat out to space. So in the new model, temperature differences in the space around the sun, 4.6 billion years ago, caused Earth to migrate outward as much as gravity was trying to pull it inward, and so the fledgling world found equilibrium in its current, habitable, orbit. 'We are trying to understand how planets interact with the gas disks from which they form as the disk evolves over its lifetime,' adds Mac Low. 'We show that the planetoids from which the Earth formed can survive their immersion in the gas disk without falling into the Sun.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Malicious App In Android Market
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uJJFlNsg31A/Malicious-App-In-Android-Market)
dumbnose writes to let us know that a fraudulent app that attempts to steal bank information has made it to the Android app store. From the alert: "NOTICE: Users of mobile devices with Android software may have noticed several applications available for download in the Android Marketplace. If you see any applications provided by the user Droid09, please do not download these applications. Android applications provided by Droid09 are fraudulent. Please remove any applications by Droid09 from your mobile device and contact your mobile provider to evaluate whether any other applications or information stored on your mobile device have been compromised." Multiple marketplaces are possible in the open Android ecosystem. Might we see the emergence of a marketplace distinguished by an iPhone-like app vetting process?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Pneumatic Tube Communication In Hospitals
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JRRy1cH41Vw/Pneumatic-Tube-Communication-In-Hospitals)
blee37 sends along a writeup from the School of Medicine at Stanford University on their pneumatic tube delivery system, used for sending atoms not bits. Such systems are in use in hospitals nationwide; the 19th-century technology is enhancd by recent refinements in pneumatic braking. "Every day, 7,000 times a day, Stanford Hospital staff turn to pneumatic tubes, cutting-edge technology in the 19th century, for a transport network that the Internet and all the latest Silicon Valley wizardry can't match: A tubular system to transport a lab sample across the medical center in the blink of an eye."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4ESujDFbi28/The-End-Of-Gravity-As-a-Fundamental-Force)
An anonymous reader writes "At a symposium at the Dutch Spinoza-instituut on 8 December, 2009, string theorist Erik Verlinde introduced a theory that derives Newton's classical mechanics. In his theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration of information in the empty space between two masses and its surroundings. He does not consider gravity as fundamental, but as an emergent phenomenon that arises from a deeper microscropic reality. A relativistic extension of his argument leads directly to Einstein's equations." Here are two blog entries discussing Verlinde's proposal in somewhat more accessible terms.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Tech Tools Fostering "Mini Generation Gaps"
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RMMFfWJGYkk/Tech-Tools-Fostering-Mini-Generation-Gaps)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has an interesting report on the iGeneration, born in the '90s and this decade, comparing them to the Net Generation, born in the 1980s. The Net Generation spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently while the iGeneration — conceivably their younger siblings — spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group, and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks. 'People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,' says Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. 'College students scratch their heads at what their high school siblings are doing, and they scratch their heads at their younger siblings. It has sped up generational differences.' Dr. Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, says that the iGeneration, unlike their older peers, expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and don't have the patience for anything less. 'They'll want their teachers and professors to respond to them immediately, and they will expect instantaneous access to everyone, because after all, that is the experience they have growing up,' says Rosen." Read below for another intra-generational wrinkle.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- $199 Freescale Tablet Design Runs Chromium OS
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WiNTZkXuAcU/199-Freescale-Tablet-Design-Runs-Chromium-OS)
Charbax writes "This is an extensive video interview with Freescale's manager of software development about their integration of the Chromium OS onto their ARM Cortex A8 i.MX51-based $199 Tablet reference design. It seems to run smoothly and fast with multiple tabs. There's no touch screen support yet, so input is done through a USB keyboard and mouse for now, but the WiFi drivers are fine. Freescale is also demonstrating Android and Ubuntu versions. Those have a 3G SIM card reader built-in, an HDMI output and 720p video playback. The question is: will they be able to support Chrome browsing at full speed on the most JavaScript- and Flash-intensive websites and support a large amount of opened tabs?" The demonstration of the Chromium tablet begins at about 11:20 into the video. The Android and Ubuntu versions are displayed earlier.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Intel and LG Team Up For x86 Smartphone
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j6SPgOblkcE/Intel-and-LG-Team-Up-For-x86-Smartphone)
gbjbaanb writes "I love stories about new smartphones; it shows the IT market is doing something different than the usual same-old desktop apps. Maybe one day we'll all be using super smartphones as our primary computing platforms. And so, here's Intel's offering: the LG GW990. Running a Moorestown CPU, which gives 'considerably' better energy efficiency than the Atom, it runs Intel's Linux distro — Moblin. Quoting: 'In some respects, the GW990 — which has an impressive high-resolution 4.8-inch touchscreen display — seems more like a MID than a smartphone. It's possible that we won't see x86 phones with truly competitive all-day battery life until the emergence of Medfield, the Moorestown successor that is said to be coming in 2011. It is clear, however, that Intel aims to eventually compete squarely with ARM in the high-end smartphone market."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hZBhhdRroTY/Mozilla-To-Ditch-Firefox-Extensions)
An anonymous reader writes "Although some have raised concerns about how sane switching to Jetpack is, it seems that Mozilla's new gadget is bound to replace the powerful extension mechanism we know. Maybe Mozilla wants to replace all the great add-ons we use daily with gadgets that add an entry to the Tools menu, or maybe they just want to draw thousands of inexperienced developers into putting together a bunch of HTML and CSS that won't integrate in the UI. It seems to me that in light of recent decisions we've discussed before, Mozilla isn't going in the right direction. What do you think ?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Best Buy Abandoning "Optimization" Service?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gaPzJHKRaAk/Best-Buy-Abandoning-Optimization-Service)
ddillman writes "According to The Consumerist, Best Buy is apparently dropping some of its 'optimization' services, and will instead provide the 'Best Buy Software Installer,' a new tool that the company says will 'radically simplify how you set up and customize your new PC or upgrade an existing one.' Translation: instead of you paying Best Buy to delete trialware from your new PC, Best Buy will get paid by software makers to try to get you to install it. A page on the Best Buy web site states that the new installation tool will be available January 17th, and 'gives you choices and options to configure your computer, and saves you time by making it easy to discover new software, then download and install with a single click.' According to an alleged internal Best Buy document obtained by a technology blog, Best Buy stands to make an extra $5 per PC just by including BBSI."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The FBI Wants To Know About Your IT Skills
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J-_JjTdEpGs/The-FBI-Wants-To-Know-About-Your-IT-Skills)
AHuxley writes "The FBI, via the Office of Management and Budget, would like to find out more about your information technology expertise if you are part of InfraGard. Terms like 'practical utility' have been included in a 60-day emergency notice of information collection via the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Is your boss or cubicle colleague part of InfraGard? It's a private, non-profit organization run as a public-private partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Are they passing info back about you or your company?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Live Intel WiDi Demonstration At CES 2010
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/X3KMa0JP988/Live-Intel-WiDi-Demonstration-At-CES-2010)
MojoKid writes "As we saw earlier this week, Intel's new WiDi (Wireless Display Interface) technology will start to be bundled with various Core i5 and Core i3 notebooks later this month, promising to address the Home Theater and Multimedia PC markets with a solution that enables wireless connectivity of your notebook over HDMI to an HDTV using standard 802.11n wireless technologies for transmission of the data. Intel was also demonstrating this technology live at CES 2010 and HotHardware captured video of the technology in action, with Intel Product Manager Joshua Newman. This new technology is obviously fairly mature at this point with retail products waiting in the wings, just a few weeks away."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 delete a program?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: How can I delete a program? Can I only delete, or there is another way ?

Answer: You can delete almost all your programs from:Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Add or Remove ProgramsYou will see a list of *all* your programs, and you can delete them from there.what I mean with *all* is that some programs aren't listed there, probably because they don't have an uninstaller, and you gotta delete them manually

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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