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Thursday the 14th of January 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Thursday the 14th 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
6. Internet Advice

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1. Latest Virus Alerts From Sophos
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Mal/Rimecud-B on 14 January 2010 11:29:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malrimecudb.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MDU on 14 January 2010 11:29:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmdu.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MDV on 14 January 2010 11:29:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmdv.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Hupigon-TB on 14 January 2010 11:29:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojhupigontb.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Spy-EY on 14 January 2010 11:29:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojspyey.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Banker-J on 14 January 2010 06:24:22 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbankerj.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Emogen-F on 14 January 2010 06:24:22 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malemogenf.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/FakeAV-CI on 14 January 2010 06:24:22 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malfakeavci.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/VBDrop-G on 14 January 2010 06:24:22 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malvbdropg.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Bckdr-RAP on 14 January 2010 06:24:22 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbckdrrap.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- China Emphasizes Laws As Google Defies Censorship
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zNdaw6fuqT0/China-Emphasizes-Laws-As-Google-Defies-Censorship)
Lomegor writes "Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday that all companies are welcome to operate in China but that they must do so under local laws. Although not explicitly, this is in some way a response to Google's threat to leave the country. China also stated that they have strict cyber laws and that they forbid any kind of 'hacking attack'; when asked if those laws apply to the government as well it was quickly avoided. 'It is still hard to say whether Google will quit China or not. Nobody knows,' the official in the State Council Information Office was quoted as saying." I sure would love to be a fly on the wall of these discussions. We certainly live in interesting times.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XrdWzWcq2Zo/Challenge-To-US-Government-Over-Seized-Laptops)
angry tapir writes "The policy of random laptop searches and seizures by US government agents at border crossings is under attack again: The American Civil Liberties Union is working with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to find lawyers whose laptops or other electronic devices were searched at US points of entry and exit. The groups argue that the practice of suspicionless laptop searches violates fundamental rights of freedom of speech and protection against unreasonable seizures and searches."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Assassin's Creed Next Year, Will Have Multiplayer
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gnKa2V1tX0k/New-emAssassins-Creedem-Next-Year-Will-Have-Multiplayer)
Ubisoft has announced that the next stand-alone Assassin's Creed title will come out next year, and it will be the first in the series to come with an online multiplayer mode. The company also said it will be "shoring up its focus on competitive AAA core titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3" in the coming year, making mention of upcoming releases for the Tom Clancy game series and a new Prince of Persia title.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Only 27% of Organizations Use Encryption
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qIshOkougDU/Only-27-of-Organizations-Use-Encryption)
An anonymous reader writes "According to a Check Point survey of 224 IT and security administrators, over 40% of businesses in the last year have more remote users connecting to the corporate network from home or when traveling, compared to 2008. The clear majority (77%) of businesses have up to a quarter of their total workforce consisting of regular remote users. Yet, regardless of the growth in remote users, just 27% of respondents say their companies currently use hard disk encryption to protect sensitive data on corporate endpoints. In addition, only 9% of businesses surveyed use encryption for removable storage devices, such as USB flash drives. A more mobile workforce carrying large amounts of data on portable devices leaves confidential corporate data vulnerable to loss, theft and interception."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Gran Turismo 5 Delayed
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kHNyKp-4azM/emGran-Turismo-5em-Delayed)
RogueyWon writes "The Times is reporting that Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 5, likely to prove a key title for the PlayStation 3, has been delayed indefinitely, despite an expectation that it would be released relatively early in 2010. The delay seems likely to impact Sony's plans to bundle the game with the PlayStation 3 console in time for the important spring sales period in Japan."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- TV Show Seeks Terminally Ill Volunteer for Mummification
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7O54Jidd0gQ/TV-Show-Seeks-Terminally-Ill-Volunteer-for-Mummification)
Terminal illness got you down? Does your future seems bleak? Channel 4 and production company Fulcrum TV would like to brighten your day by making you the star of an upcoming documentary. They would like to offer you the chance to be mummified on TV and maybe even displayed in a museum afterward. An advertisement for the project reads: "We are currently keen to talk to some one who, faced with the knowledge of their own terminal illness and all that it entails, would nonetheless consider undergoing the process of an ancient Egyptian embalming."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- YouTube Revamp Imminent?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xeTGJpo81Cs/YouTube-Revamp-Imminent)
An anonymous reader writes "YouTube's latest blog post indicated that some changes are on the way. Google has opened up a call to submit and vote on ideas. HTML 5 open video with Free formats has dominated the vote, maintaining over twice as many votes as the next-highest item almost since the vote opened up. You may vote here (Google login required). Perhaps we don't even need to since their blog post comes suspiciously soon after their revised merger with On2. Could these improvements be a completely overhauled YouTube 2.0?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Nanowires Inject Molecules Into Living Cells
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ueZnL0IzSVY/Nanowires-Inject-Molecules-Into-Living-Cells)
TechRev_AL writes "A scientist at Harvard University has developed a clever trick for manipulating the insides of living cells. Hongkun Park grows cells on top of nanowires so that the wires poke into them like needles, which allows molecules to be delivered inside them. To use the nanowires to deliver molecules, Park's team first treats them with a chemical that would allow molecules to bind relatively weakly to the surface of the nanowires. Then they coat the wires with a molecule or combination of molecules of interest. When cells are impaled on the nanowires, the molecules are released into the cells' interior. This gallery of images shows the cells growing on top of the nanowires."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/f9enwCebh90/Man-Uses-Drake-Equation-To-Explain-Girlfriend-Woes)
artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QTdMrWuJrTs/US-DOJ-Says-Kindle-In-Classroom-Hurts-Blind-Students)
angry tapir writes "Three US universities will stop promoting the use of Amazon.com's Kindle DX e-book reader in classrooms after complaints that the device doesn't give blind students equal access to information. Settlements with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, were announced Wednesday by the US Department of Justice. The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind had complained that use of the Kindle devices discriminates against students with vision problems."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7JzbGCMdwu8/Gmail-Moves-To-HTTPS-By-Default)
clone53421 writes "Although Gmail has long supported HTTPS as an option, Gmail announced their decision yesterday to switch everyone to HTTPS by default: 'We initially left the choice of using it up to you because there's a downside: https can make your mail slower since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data. Over the last few months, we've been researching the security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do.' I wonder if this has anything to do with the reports of Chinese users having their accounts hacked? 'Only two Gmail accounts appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves,' said David Drummond in that blog update. That does sound like it perhaps could be a result of insecure HTTP traffic being intercepted in transit between the users and Gmail's servers."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LOR5T9EewVw/Porn-Industry-Tiptoes-Into-3D-Video)
itwbennett writes "The 3D porn experience is coming (eventually) to a home theater near you. Most adult filmmakers are moving slowly toward 3D video because of higher production cost, the small number of 3D TVs in the home, and, of course, the glasses. Rob Smith, director of operations at Hustler Video Group says he hopes that market penetration of 3D TVs in the home is high enough that 'by the fourth quarter of this year it will be at the point where we can justify doing a 3D product.' The average adult movie costs around $25,000 to $40,000 to make, and 3D movies cost about 30% more, says Ali Joone, founder of Digital Playground. But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hGaRtzCa2RQ/What-Will-Apple-Do-With-Swedish-Eye-Tracking-Technology)
andylim writes "An article on recombu.com explores the possibility that Apple is gearing up to launch eye-tracking technology soon. Citing a patent filed in 2008 that mentions 'gaze vectors' and a recent purchase of units from a Swedish eye-tracking company, the author suggests that the inclusion of eye-tracking tech in the company’s forthcoming tablet would be Job’s magnum opus. 'What better flourish to a career that began with the popularisation of windows, icons, mouse and pointer than to usurp them all?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5mhZLsv4RU8/Attractive-Open-Source-Search-Interfaces)
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that manages an online database for the political market. We add to this DB daily with updates from a variety of sources and our customers then search through this content via our Solr/Lucene search engine. My problem is, our search interface is a little, well, basic and I would love to know if there are any feature-rich open source alternatives out there. The only one I can find is Flamenco, and while that seems strong on categorisation, that seems to be about the height of it."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Using Outlook From Orbit
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hftLs_k9Qeo/Using-Outlook-From-Orbit)
Pigskin-Referee writes with this excerpt from Office Watch: "On the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station they use Microsoft Outlook 2003, but not quite in the same way that us earthbound Earthlings do. The space shuttle Atlantis is orbiting the earth right now and the crew exchange emails with the ground a few times each day. Bandwidth is a constraint and you don't want the busy crewmembers bothered with spam or unnecessary messages so NASA has a special system in place. The crew use fairly standard laptops running Microsoft Outlook (currently Outlook 2003) with Exchange Server as the email host, but they don't link to the server using any of the standard methods."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 do I remove reminants of applications from a re-installed computer?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I had to reinstall windows xp and now I have a copy on boot up that is no good and would like to uninstall it instead of selecting it every time windows loads. Also, after the install over the old one, programs are not in the start -> program files menu but are on my c:\ drive. Some of these programs are no good and they are not listed for uninstall. How may I clear out these programs without reformatting? Is there a specific program to find system files not needed anymore?

Answer: Hi Mike,As I understand your question you re-installed Windows which left fragments of programs lying around which you no longer want and wish to remove. Please let me know if I've misunderstood.There are indeed several programs to remove the "entrails" of programs.The best of these are McAfee QuickClean 3 and Norton SystemWorks 2003.Unfortunately, both of these programs cost money and are a lot cheeper if you buy them bundled with the Norton/McAfee virus Scanner too, but they do seem to be well worth it.If you are just after a single clean-up of your computer, it is worth downloading the demo of either program just to clean your PC once.The McAfee QuickClean demo is available at: http://www.mcafee.comThe Norton SystemWorks demo is available at: http://www.norton.com.There are a number of free programs for cleaning PC's available but these do seem to be un-trustworthy in some cases.A trip to http://www.download.com might help you to find a 3rd party application for free to solve your problems.Hope this helps!Please feel free to reply to this message if you require further assistance.Regards,-Lawrence Stromski, Helpforce.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- What Exactly Is 'VoIP'?(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/257850.htm)

You see the local advertisements offering VoIP phone service for $20 a month. Long distance calls are almost free, and you're curious enough to research it more. So what exactly...

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