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Saturday the 16th of January 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Saturday the 16th 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/Behav-010 on 16 January 2010 04:08:39 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbehav010.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MEI on 16 January 2010 04:08:39 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmei.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-APY on 16 January 2010 04:08:39 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavapy.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MED on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmed.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MEF on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmef.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MEG on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmeg.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/ASP-F on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojaspf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Bckdr-RAQ on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbckdrraq.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Delf-FEG on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdelffeg.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/ExpJS-N on 15 January 2010 22:59:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojexpjsn.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Hundreds of New TLDs Coming — Question Is When
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QivTrbDN5Ik/Hundreds-of-New-TLDs-Coming-mdash-Question-Is-When)
netbuzz writes "A controversial plan to introduce hundreds of new top-level domains could be headed for the fast track to implementation or something more akin to the back burner, depending on what ICANN makes of public comments due to close at the end of this month. At most immediate issue is whether the process of granting these new TLDs will feature a pre-registration process that proponents say is necessary to accurately gauge the depth of interest and skeptics fear as moving too fast too soon. Says one critic: 'In effect, it's like ICANN saying we don't know what route this race is going to take or the shape of the track, but we're going to fire the starting gun anyway.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XZWpRzbD5_o/THX-Caught-With-Pants-Down-Over-Lexicon-Blu-ray-Player)
SchlimpyChicken writes "Lexicon and THX apparently attempted to pull a fast one on the consumer electronics industry, but got caught this week when a couple websites exposed the fact that the high-end electronics company put a nearly-unmodified $500 Oppo Blu-ray player into a new Lexicon chassis and was selling it for $3500. AV Rant broke the story first on its home theater podcast with some pics of the two players' internals. Audioholics.com then posted a full suite of pics and tested the players with an Audio Precision analyzer. Both showed identical analogue audio performance and both failed a couple of basic THX specifications. Audioholics also posted commentary from THX on the matter and noted that both companies appear to be in a mad scramble to hide the fact that the player was ever deemed THX certified."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sZDgobjGUhg/YouTube-Hints-At-Support-For-FreeOpen-Formats-With-HTML5)
shadowmage13 writes "After the recent post about YouTube, so many votes were put in for HTML5 using Free and Open formats that Google has already cleared them all out (to make space for others) and issued an official response (requires Google login): 'We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because there are so many similar HTML5 ideas and we want to give other ideas a chance to be seen.' Now all the top ideas are concerning copyright and DMCA abuse."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rNq-yQPGX3w/Using-EMP-To-Punch-Holes-In-Steel)
angrytuna writes "The Economist is running a story about a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, who've found a way to use an EMP device to shape and punch holes through steel. The process enjoys advantages over both lasers, which take more time to bore the hole (0.2 vs. 1.4 seconds), and by metal presses, which can leave burrs that must be removed by hand."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Code Used To Attack Google Now Public
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HSPrOEltjos/Code-Used-To-Attack-Google-Now-Public)
itwbennett writes "The IE attack code used in last month's attack on Google and 33 other companies was submitted for analysis Thursday on the Wepawet malware analysis Web site. One day after being made publicly available, it had been included in at least one hacking tool and could be seen in online attacks, according to Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee. Marcus noted that the attack is very reliable on IE 6 running on Windows XP, and could possibly be modified to work on newer versions of IE."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/abGe-MQA9hk/A-Space-Cannon-That-Might-Actually-Work)
Unequivocal writes "Chalk another one up to Jules Verne. Physicist John Hunter is proposing a space cannon with a new design idea: it's mostly submerged. 'Many engineers have toyed with the [space cannon] concept, but nobody has came up with an actual project that may work. Hunter's idea is simple: Build a cannon near the equator, submerged in the ocean, hooked to a floating rig ... A system like this will cut launch costs from $5,000 per pound to only $250 per pound. It won't launch people into space because of the excessive acceleration, but those guys at the ISS can use it to order pizza and real ice cream.' Though it won't work on people, with launch costs that low, who cares?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Why Counter-Terrorism Is In Shambles
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qZrI4NkuUlw/Why-Counter-Terrorism-Is-In-Shambles)
Early last week several questions were submitted to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the sad state of counter-terrorism in the United States, and he has answered frankly and in-depth. In addition, McGovern solicited former FBI attorney/special agent Coleen Rowley to review his answers and provide her own comments. Ray's biggest tip to the intelligence community was to "HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THOSE RESPONSIBLE. More 'reform' is the last thing we need. Sorry, but we DO have to look back. The most effective step would be to release the CIA Inspector General report on intelligence community performance prior to 9/11. That investigation was run by, and its report was prepared by an honest man, it turns out. It was immediately suppressed by then-Acting DCI John McLaughlin — another Tenet clone — and McLaughin's successors as director, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and now Leon Panetta."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- ESA Wants ISS Extended To 2020
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OeKW8D_YNa4/ESA-Wants-ISS-Extended-To-2020)
Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that the European Space Agency's (ESA) Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain says that uncertainty is undermining the best use of the ISS and that only guaranteeing the ISS's longevity would cause more scientists to come forward to run experiments on the orbiting laboratory. 'I am convinced that stopping the station in 2015 would be a mistake because we cannot attract the best scientists if we are telling them today "you are welcome on the space station but you'd better be quick because in 2015 we close the shop,'' says Dordain. One of the biggest issues holding up an agreement on station-life extension is the human spaceflight review ordered by US President Barack Obama and the future of US participation in the ISS is intimately tied to the outcome of that review. Dordain says that no one partner in the ISS project could unilaterally call an end to the platform and that a meeting would be held in Japan later in the year where he hoped the partners could get some clarity going forward."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 vs. Early Fedora 13 Benchmarks
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GmaeCOG_BSM/Ubuntu-1004-Alpha-2-vs-Early-Fedora-13-Benchmarks)
Given that early benchmarks of the Lucid Lynx were less than encouraging, Phoronix decided to take the latest alpha out for a spin and has set it side-by-side with an early look at Fedora 13. "Overall, there are both positive and negative performance changes for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2 in relation to Ubuntu 9.10. Most of the negative regressions are attributed to the EXT4 file-system losing some of its performance charm. With using a pre-alpha snapshot of Fedora 13 and the benchmark results just being provided for reference purposes, we will hold off on looking into greater detail at this next Red Hat Linux update until it matures."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Adding Up the Explanations For ACTA's "Shameful Secret"
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y9Biu2xRWlY/Adding-Up-the-Explanations-For-ACTAs-Shameful-Secret)
Several sources are reporting on a Google event this week that attempted to bring some transparency to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that has so far been treated like a "shameful secret." Unfortunately, not many concrete details were uncovered, so Ars tried to lay out why there has been so much secrecy, especially from an administration that has been preaching transparency. "The reason for that was obvious: there's little of substance that's known about the treaty, and those lawyers in the room and on the panel who had seen one small part of it were under a nondisclosure agreement. In most contexts, the lack of any hard information might lead to a discussion of mind-numbing generality and irrelevance, but this transparency talk was quite fascinating—in large part because one of the most influential copyright lobbyists in Washington was on the panel attempting to make his case. [...] [MPAA/RIAA Champion Steven] Metalitz took on three other panelists and a moderator, all of whom were less than sympathetic to his positions, and he made the lengthiest case for both ACTA and its secrecy that we have ever heard. It was also surprisingly unconvincing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- How To Get a Job At a Mega-Corp
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Q4CwmYACe9Q/How-To-Get-a-Job-At-a-Mega-Corp)
Barence writes "'With the economic hangover starting to wear off, the technology giants are once again recruiting in earnest. Apple, Google, and Microsoft all have vacancies on their websites, and now could be the perfect time to land a job at one of computing's biggest hitters.' PC Pro talked to people inside Microsoft, Apple, and Google to discover how to track down the best jobs, and what it takes to get through the arduous selection and interview processes." With lots of experience both within and without, what other words of wisdom can be offered to those wishing to break into a mega-corp?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Pedro Matias Sets New Texting Record At Mobile World Cup
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RHXWmGrvFMM/Pedro-Matias-Sets-New-Texting-Record-At-Mobile-World-Cup)
Pedro Matias showed off his mad txtin sklz at this year's Mobile World Cup and managed to set a new record for "fastest, most accurate" texts as determined by the event's corporate owners. "history was made when Portugal's Pedro Matias set the new World's Record for texting by typing a 264-character text in just 1 minute 59 seconds (besting the previous record by 23 seconds). Of course, each Mobile World Cup must have its share of controversy -- in this case, Engadget Mobile's very own Chris Ziegler led a silent protest during the awards ceremony. The group was reportedly upset over the use of QWERTY phones (the LG enV3 in this case) to break the record."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Digital Fundraising Booms For Haiti Relief
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1CHnR16fMhc/Digital-Fundraising-Booms-For-Haiti-Relief)
It seems that a recent digital fundraising drive for Haiti relief has stunned organizers at the Red Cross and White House. As of the last tally on Friday the campaign was at well over $8 million. "Earlier Thursday, when the Red Cross topped $3 million in text and social media donations — it hit nearly $40 million from all sources by late Thursday — spokesman Jonathan Aiken described it as 'a phenomenal number that's never been achieved before. People text up to three times at 10 bucks a pop,' Aiken said. 'You're talking about roughly 300,000 people actually spontaneously deciding, "I can spare $10 for this." And that's remarkable.' As of late Thursday, more than half of all donations to the Red Cross's Haiti relief effort had been received online, according to a news release.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tmCHCSj04jg/Doomsday-Clock-Moves-Away-From-Midnight)
Arvisp writes to tell us that the symbolic "Doomsday Clock," designed to represent how close civilization is to catastrophic destruction, has been moved away from midnight. "First set at seven minutes to midnight, the clock has been moved only 18 times since its creation in 1947. The group, which includes more than a dozen Nobel laureates, last moved the hands of the clock in 2007, from seven to five minutes before midnight to reflect the threat of a 'second nuclear age' and the challenges presented by global warming. Today, at a press conference in New York, the Bulletin announced that despite the looming threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, it would move the hands of the clock from five to six minutes before midnight."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- In UK, Oink Admin Cleared of Fraud
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kHst9bscpzY/In-UK-Oink-Admin-Cleared-of-Fraud)
krou writes "The BBC is reporting that Alan Ellis, who ran music file sharing site Oink from his flat in the UK, has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud. Between 2004 and 2007, the site 'facilitated the download of 21 million music files' by allowing its some 200,000 'members to find other people on the web who were prepared to share files.' Ellis was making £18,000 a month ($34,600) from donations from users, and claimed that he had no intention of defrauding copyright holders, and said 'All I do is really like Google, to really provide a connection between people. None of the music is on my website.'" Reader Andorin recommends Torrentfreak's coverage, which includes summaries of the closing arguments.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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-- Ive reinstalled windows and drivers and my monitor is 16 bit colour only
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: My computer lock-up a lot and now that I've tried to update all the drivers now my monitor resolution is in just 16 bit and i can't change it back, how do I put back my computer system configuration back to a date on day before I screwed it up?

Answer: Julio,I'm guessing this problem has come around becase of a bad driver for your Graphics Card.I would first of all advise you to remove all the new drivers you have installed and then re-install the old ones again. Doing this should work.Also it might be worth visiting the manufactuerers website of all the new drivers. See http://www.helpforce.com/main/elinks.shtml or try http://www.google.com.If this doesn't work then you may have to consider re-installing windows. If you are forced to chose this second option make sure that you backup all your important files to zip/CD/etc...

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- What is a 'Codec'? Why Do I Need It?(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/257381.htm)

Your Windows Media Player is giving you a message that you do not have the right "codec" to play this movie. "What is a codec?", you ask? Well, a codec is...

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