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Saturday the 23rd of January 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Saturday the 23rd 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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Troj/Banker-EVV on 23 January 2010 04:29:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbankerevv.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Mdrop-CJW on 23 January 2010 04:29:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojmdropcjw.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/VB-EMG on 23 January 2010 04:29:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojvbemg.html?_log_from=rss
W32/AutoIt-IK on 23 January 2010 01:11:08 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32autoitik.html?_log_from=rss
W32/KoobFa-S on 23 January 2010 01:11:08 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32koobfas.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Buterat-A on 22 January 2010 22:04:51 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbuterata.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Rusty-A on 22 January 2010 22:04:51 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malrustya.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MGL on 22 January 2010 22:04:51 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmgl.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-ARF on 22 January 2010 22:04:51 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavarf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-ARJ on 22 January 2010 22:04:51 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavarj.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- By Latest Count, 95% of Email Is Spam
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lup5TO-rV-s/By-Latest-Count-95-of-Email-Is-Spam)
An anonymous reader writes "The European Network and Information Security Agency released its new spam report, which looks at spam budgets, the impact of spam and spam management. Less than 5% of all email traffic is delivered to mailboxes. This means the main bulk of mails, 95%, is spam. This is a very minor change, from 6%, in earlier ENISA reports. Over 25% of respondents had spam accounting for more than 10% of help desk calls. The survey targeted email service providers of different types and sizes, and received replies from 100 respondents from 30 different countries."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- How Do You Measure a Game's Worth?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/54Ror3NDUk8/How-Do-You-Measure-a-Games-Worth)
RamblingJosh writes "Video games can be very expensive these days, especially with so many great games on the horizon. So I wonder: how exactly do you get the most gaming entertainment for your dollar? '... the first thing I personally thought about when approaching this was money spent versus time played. Using Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions as an example: I bought the game for about $30 Canadian, and played it for roughly 85 hours. That comes out to 2.83 hours per dollar spent, a pretty good number. In this case, the game was a lot of fun and it was cheap, and so the system works fairly well. There are so many other things to think about, though. What if the game wasn't so good? What about the fact that it's portable? ... What about the new content? Multiplayer?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- China Slams Clinton's Call For Internet Freedom
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j7W_bJ2YTmI/China-Slams-Clintons-Call-For-Internet-Freedom)
CWmike writes "China on Friday slammed remarks made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promoting Internet freedom worldwide, saying her words harmed US-China relations. Clinton's speech and China's response both come after Google last week said it planned to reverse its long-standing position in China by ending censorship of its Chinese search engine. Google cited increasingly tough censorship and recent cyberattacks on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists for its decision, which it said might force it to close its offices in China altogether. On Thursday in Washington, DC, Clinton unveiled US initiatives to help people living under repressive governments access the Internet for purposes such as reporting corruption. The US will support circumvention tools for dissidents whose Internet connections are blocked, she said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu called for the US 'to respect the facts and stop using the issue of so-called Internet freedom to unreasonably criticize China.' China's laws forbid hacking attacks and violations of citizens' privacy, the statement said, apparently referring to the issues raised by Google."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/60-xpvDg70Y/Space-Photos-Taken-From-Shed-Stun-Astronomers)
krou writes "Amateur astronomer Peter Shah has stunned astronomers around the world with amazing photos of the universe taken from his garden shed. Shah spent £20,000 on the equipment, hooking up a telescope in his shed to his home computer, and the results are being compared to images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. 'Most men like to putter about in their garden shed,' said Shah, 'but mine is a bit more high tech than most. I have fitted it with a sliding roof so I can sit in comfort and look at the heavens. I have a very modest set up, but it just goes to show that a window to the universe is there for all of us – even with the smallest budgets. I had to be patient and take the images over a period of several months because the skies in Britain are often clouded over and you need clear conditions.' His images include the Monkey's head nebula, M33 Pinwheel Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy and the Flaming Star Nebula, and are being put together for a book."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Radio Hams Fired Upon In Haiti
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UJSFoFUEGrs/Radio-Hams-Fired-Upon-In-Haiti)
Bruce Perens writes "A team of radio ham volunteers from the Dominican Republic visited Port-au-Prince to install VHF repeaters, only to be fired upon as they left the Dominican embassy. Two non-ham members of the party were hit, one severely. ARRL is sending equipment, and there is confusion as unfamiliar operators in government agencies join in on ham frequencies."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Fighting With Your Fingers — A Canceled Indie Game Concept For Natal
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZlX9eie7dSs/Fighting-With-Your-Fingers-mdash-A-Canceled-Indie-Game-Concept-For-Natal)
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Though Microsoft's Project Natal won't be released until later this year, indie studio Arkedo has already revealed a canceled project for the peripheral. Called 2 Finger Heroes, it was to be a beat 'em up where your fingers do the fighting. 'Characters would be controlled by moving your fingers, while special moves could be done by incorporating your whole hand. The environment could even be affected by moving your arms folded at your chest.' On why it was canceled, one of the developers said, 'One of the design flaws of this, apart from the fact that it demanded some very precise pattern recognition from the Natal system, is that it would have been HELL to localize. Yup, what can be understood as the victory sign in France could be a terrible insult in the UK, for instance. And we are not even talking about Italian. Oh, the possibilities...'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Litigious Rambus Wins Again
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RfxIKPdrjtk/Litigious-Rambus-Wins-Again)
After Rambus's settlement deal with Samsung earlier this week, an anonymous reader writes with this snippet: "Memory technology company Rambus rounded out the week with another legal dispute ending in its favor as it fights to defend its patent portfolio. On Friday [the] US International Trade Commission ruled that graphics chip maker Nvidia infringed upon Rambus patents, according to statements released by the two companies on Friday. Rambus has been filing lawsuits against various technology companies for the past decade, claiming they violate patents held by the memory chip designer."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kuLGS7mYYao/Electromagnetic-Pulse-Gun-To-Help-In-Police-Chases)
adeelarshad82 writes "In an attempt to put an end to dangerous, high-speed police chases, scientists at Eureka Aerospace have developed an electromagnetic pulse gun called the High Power Electromagnetic System, or HPEMS. It develops a high-intensity directed pulse of electricity designed to disable a car's microprocessor system, shutting down all of its systems. Right now the prototype seen in a video fills an entire lab, but they have plans to shrink its size to hand-held proportions. Some form of this is already featured in OnStar-equipped vehicles though the electromagnetic signal used to disable the vehicle is beamed via satellite, and doesn't cripple the in-car computer, but rather puts it into a mode that allows police to easily catch and then stop the fleeing criminal."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Red Hat Support Continues To Flourish
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Kkbr8kKJzR0/Red-Hat-Support-Continues-To-Flourish)
ruphus13 writes "As the pure-play Open Source companies continue to dwindle, Red Hat has thrived through the recession. Its support revenues have grown 20+%, and account for 75+% of its revenues. 'Instead of the traditional strategy of selling expensive proprietary software licenses, as practiced by the Microsofts and Oracles of the world, Red Hat gets the vast majority of its revenues from selling support contracts. In the third quarter of last year, support subscriptions accounted for $164 million of its $194 million in revenue, up 21 percent year-over-year. All 25 of the company's largest support subscribers renewed subscriptions, even despite a higher price tag.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- News Experiment To Rely Only On Facebook, Twitter
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-qfcWzucUQM/News-Experiment-To-Rely-Only-On-Facebook-Twitter)
snydeq writes "With a setup ripped right out of a reality show — or, perhaps more fittingly, The Shining — a French-language public broadcasters association will put five journalists in a French farmhouse for five days, giving them no access to newspapers, television, radio, or the Internet, save Facebook and Twitter, to see how much world news they can report. The reporters will report this news on a communal blog. 'Our aim is to show that there are different sources of information and to look at the legitimacy of each of these sources,' said France Inter editor Helene Jouan. 'This experiment will enable us to take a hard look at all the myths that exist about Facebook and Twitter.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xx5h3muPCrI/Data-Mining-Competition-To-Improve-Drug-Safety)
An anonymous reader writes "The OMOP Cup is a competition to find new methods for detecting drug side effects. There have been several cases over the last few years where drugs have had issues that haven't been detected for years after they were released. The proliferation of electronic medical records and pharmacy claims provides a large and potentially powerful new data source for faster detection. The problem is that the techniques for doing this on a large scale are immature. The OMOP Cup is trying to help fix that. They've already given out $5,000 for top methods, and there's $15,000 still up for grabs."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 15-Year-Old Student Discovers New Pulsar
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iTVh3dvbxGw/15-Year-Old-Student-Discovers-New-Pulsar)
For the second time in as many years, a student has made a discovery while participating in the Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC), a joint program between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and West Virginia University designed to get students and teachers involved in analyzing data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). This time it was high school sophomore Shay Bloxton, who discovered a brand new pulsar. "For Bloxton, the pulsar discovery may be only her first in a scientific career. 'Participating in the PSC has definitely encouraged me to pursue my dream of being an astrophysicist,' she said, adding that she hopes to attend West Virginia University to study astrophysics. Late last year, another West Virginia student, from South Harrison High School, Lucas Bolyard, discovered a pulsar-like object called a rotating radio transient. His discovery also came through participation in the PSC."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Judge Lowers Jammie Thomas' Damages to $54,000
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jnggtFaAlQ8/Judge-Lowers-Jammie-Thomas-Damages-to-54000)
An anonymous reader writes "Judge Michael Davis has slashed the amount Jammie Thomas-Rassett is said to owe Big Music from almost $2,000,000 to $54,000. 'The need for deterrence cannot justify a $2 million verdict for stealing and illegally distributing 24 songs for the sole purpose of obtaining free music. Moreover, although Plaintiffs were not required to prove their actual damages, statutory damages must still bear some relation to actual damages.' The full decision (PDF) is also available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_bgitX2NWrw/Prolonged-Gaming-Blamed-For-Rickets-Rise)
superapecommando writes "Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors. Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham of Newcastle University have written a paper in the British Medical Journal which warns of the rickets uptake – a disease which sufferers get when deficient in Vitamin D. The study boils down to the fact that as more people play videogames indoors they don't get enough sunlight and this has meant the hospitals are now having to combat a disease that was last in the papers around the time Queen Victoria was on the throne." At least the kids are eating enough snacks with iodized salt that we don't have to worry about goiters.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- IBM Sets Areal Density Record for Magnetic Tape
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/o0EwiuqWwbo/IBM-Sets-Areal-Density-Record-for-Magnetic-Tape)
digitalPhant0m writes to tell us that IBM researchers have set a new world record for areal data density on linear magnetic tape, weighing in at around 29.5 billion bits per square inch. This achievement is roughly 39 times the density of current industry standard magnetic tape. "To achieve this feat, IBM Research has developed several new critical technologies, and for the past three years worked closely with FUJIFILM to optimize its next-generation dual-coat magnetic tape based on barium ferrite (BaFe) particles. [...] These new technologies are estimated to enable cartridge capacities that could hold up to 35 trillion bytes (terabytes) of uncompressed data. This is about 44 times the capacity of today's IBM LTO Generation 4 cartridge. A capacity of 35 terabytes of data is sufficient to store the text of 35 million books, which would require 248 miles (399 km) of bookshelves."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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-- My right-click "send to desktop as shortcut" has dissapeared
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: My right-click "send to desktop as shortcut" feature has disappeared. How do I get it back?

Answer: If you can’t find the Send To...Desktop as Shortcut option on your Send To menu or if you accidentally delete its shortcut from the SendTo folder, here’s how to get it back:Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the SendTo (in windows 98, this is in c:\windows, but may be hidden) folder. Right-click in an empty space in the SendTo folder and select New, Text Document from the pop-up menu. Name the newly created text document:Desktop as Shortcut.DESKLINKand press Enter. You’ll be warned that changing the file’s extension may render the file unusable. Click Yes to change it anyway.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- How Apple Transformed Music and Our Lives(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/258244.htm)

Internet-based jukeboxes were just a dream a few years ago. Record manufacturers clung desperately to the vinyl record concept of music, striving to keep people buying physical media. But people...

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