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Saturday the 30th of January 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Saturday the 30th 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/Agent-MIA on 30 January 2010 10:44:31 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmia.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MII on 30 January 2010 10:44:31 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmii.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Banker-EWF on 30 January 2010 10:44:31 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbankerewf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Bredo-AM on 30 January 2010 10:44:31 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbredoam.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-NK on 30 January 2010 05:07:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpknk.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Swizzor-K on 30 January 2010 05:07:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malswizzork.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/ZAccess-A on 30 January 2010 05:07:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malzaccessa.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Zegost-A on 30 January 2010 05:07:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malzegosta.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Banker-EWE on 30 January 2010 05:07:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbankerewe.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-ARE on 30 January 2010 05:07:44 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavare.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Gun With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tgK-z9T61lY/Gun-With-Wireless-Arming-Signal-Goes-On-Sale-Soon)
An anonymous reader writes "Armatix has built a pistol that will disarm itself when it is taken away from a watch that sends it a wireless arming signal. The .22 caliber guns will go on sale in the US within months, and the initial price is 7,000 euro. Higher caliber models will follow. To activate the gun, users must enter a pin code on the wristwatch, and then keep it within roughly 20cm of the gun. If the person is disarmed, the gun can't be used against them. Also coming soon this year, civilians will also be able to buy three-shot Tasers, rubber bullets, as well as Heckler and Koch black rifles." This might not be good news for the citizens of New Jersey.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Fertilizer Dump Spoils Intel's Pure Water
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dzQ9GaBol-U/Fertilizer-Dump-Spoils-Intels-Pure-Water)
An anonymous reader writes "Intel had to shut down part of its Irish plant for a while because of the extreme cold and the fact the local council polluted the water supply with fertilizer. Apparently it got down to -12 degrees C at the Intel plant in Leixlip, County Kildare. But to make matters worse, the local council ran out of rock salt to grit the roads and opted for fertilizer instead. There were fears that ammonia and nitrates in the fertilizer might have contaminated the local water supply. The problem for the chipmaker is that it needs extremely pure water for its manufacturing processes."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vhBTC7fAYmQ/Making-It-Hard-For-Extraterrestrials-To-Hear-Us)
quaith writes "US astronomer Frank Drake has told scientists at a special SETI meeting in London that earthlings are making it less likely that we will be heard in space. In the past, we used huge ground stations to broadcast radio and television signals which could be picked up relatively easily — according to astronomers' calculations anyway. Now we use satellites that transmit at 75 watts and point toward Earth instead of into space. In addition, we've switched to digital which makes the transmissions even fainter. Drake has concluded that very soon, in space no one will hear us at all. I guess we'd better keep listening."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google Deducing Wireless Location Data
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5GPBtzGUe4c/Google-Deducing-Wireless-Location-Data)
bizwriter writes "When it comes to knowing where wireless users are, the carriers have had a lock on the data. But a patent application shows that Google is trying to deduce the information based on packet headers and estimated transmission rates. This would let it walk right around carriers and become another source of location data to advertisers."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rdNbbPVNnIk/Novell-Bringingnobr-wbrnobrNet-Developers-To-Apple-iPad)
GMGruman writes "Paul Krill reports that Apple's new iPad could be easier to write apps for, thanks to Novell's MonoTouch development platform, which helps .Net developers create code for the iPad and fully comply with Apple's licensing requirements — without having to use Apple's preferred Objective-C. This news falls on the footsteps of news that Citrix will release an iPad app that lets users run Windows sessions on the iPad. These two developments bolster an argument that the iPad could eventually displace the netbook."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Video Review of Hivision's $100 ARM-Based Android Laptop
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iFAtUYKJI9E/Video-Review-of-Hivisions-100-ARM-Based-Android-Laptop)
Charbax writes "The Android laptops are coming. Thanks to cheap ARM-powered laptops made in China, and the latest, most optimized Android software, we can soon buy usable $100 laptops in all the supermarkets. In this video, I test the web browsing speed on the new Rockchip rk2808 ARM9-based PWS700CA laptop by Shenzhen-based Hivision Co Ltd. Web browsing on AJAX-heavy websites is surprisingly snappy, and could only be even faster if ARM11, ARM Cortex A8 or A9 processors were used and if it was configured with slightly more than 128MB RAM. How soon will Google release the $100 Google laptop?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- RIAA To Appeal Thomas-Rasset Ruling
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wfnYKabkMi4/RIAA-To-Appeal-Thomas-Rasset-Ruling)
frank_adrian314159 writes "The RIAA will appeal the ruling that reduced Jammie Thomas-Rasset's $1.92 million fine for file sharing to $54,000. '"It is a shame that Ms. Thomas-Rasset continues to deny any responsibility for her actions rather than accept a reasonable settlement offer and put this case behind her," said RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth.' Joe Sibley, an attorney for Thomas-Rasset, said his client would not settle for the $25,000 that the RIAA has asked for. '"Jammie is not going to agree to pay any amount of money to them," Sibley said, adding that it doesn't matter to Thomas-Rasset whether the damages are $25,000 or $1.92 million.' In addition, Thomas-Rasset's attorneys say that, win or lose, they plan to appeal the constitutionality of the fine."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aTrZXqc81HI/Phone-and-Text-Bans-On-Drivers-Shown-Ineffective)
shmG writes to share news of a recent study on the impact of laws which ban the use of cell phones while driving. There appears to be no reduction in accidents as a result of these laws. "The HLDI compared collisions of 100 insured vehicles per year in New York, Washington DC, Connecticut, and California — all states with currently enacted roadway text bans. Despite those laws, monthly fluctuations in crash rates didn't change after bans were enacted, [although] there were less people using devices while driving. An earlier study conducted by the HLDI reported that cellphone use was directly linked to four-fold increases in crash injuries. Also independent studies done by universities have shown correlation between driving while using a phone and crashes."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Library of Congress Explores Ways To Release OS Software
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LWOsvOtuSfU/Library-of-Congress-Explores-Ways-To-Release-OS-Software)
An anonymous reader writes "The Library of Congress has established an internal process to start creating more open source software which will make it easier for software developers and sponsors within the Library to produce software that can be freely redistributed to users worldwide. The Library has released some open source software to this point, concentrating on developing tools that support digital preservation processes, including the secure transfer of digital files. This includes the release of a full suite of digital content transfer tools that support the Bagit specification."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Gates Foundation Plans To Invest $10B Into Vaccines
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/omG5VF1sDC0/Gates-Foundation-Plans-To-Invest-10B-Into-Vaccines)
Endloser writes "Bill Gates is going to invest $10 billion to provide vaccines to people worldwide. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes that vaccines are the way to a better future for the world. So they have decided to make 'the largest pledge ever made by a charitable foundation to a single cause.' This 10-year, 10 billion dollar project is expected to save 8.7 million lives."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Touchscreen Technology Like Writing On Paper
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/J12FXA3W2ig/New-Touchscreen-Technology-Like-Writing-On-Paper)
An anonymous reader writes "A company claims it has the technology to make writing on touchscreens more like writing with pencil and paper, when the harder you press the thicker the line you produce. The technology uses a material called Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC), the resistance of which is extremely sensitive to pressure, unlike today's touchscreen phones, which might be fine for basic finger-pointing, but they are poor at gauging the pressure of the touch. The hope is that this will be useful in Asia for handwriting recognition, because Asian scripts use a lot of variation in line thickness. Interestingly, screens with a standard 2D touch matrix can get the extra measure of control using a narrow strip of QTC down the side."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google To Pay $500 For Bugs Found In Chromium
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6ZB-2xTct04/Google-To-Pay-500-For-Bugs-Found-In-Chromium)
Trailrunner7 writes to mention that a new program from Google could pay security researchers $500 for every security bug found in Chromium. Of course if you find a particularly clever bug you could be eligible for a $1337 reward. "Today, we are introducing an experimental new incentive for external researchers to participate. We will be rewarding select interesting and original vulnerabilities reported to us by the security research community. For existing contributors to Chromium security — who would likely continue to contribute regardless — this may be seen as a token of our appreciation. In addition, we are hoping that the introduction of this program will encourage new individuals to participate in Chromium security. The more people involved in scrutinizing Chromium's code and behavior, the more secure our millions of users will be. Such a concept is not new; we'd like to give serious kudos to the folks at Mozilla for their long-running and successful vulnerability reward program."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7sr7-Mm-Rk0/Has-Apple-Created-the-Perfect-Board-Game-Platform)
andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- x86 Assembler JWASM Hits Stable Release
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/l1jvBSgIjHo/x86-Assembler-JWASM-Hits-Stable-Release)
Odoital writes "January 2010 is an exciting month for x86 assembly language developers. Software developer Andreas Grech, better known to the x86 assembly language community and the rest of the world by his handle "japheth," has released another version of JWASM — a steadily growing fork of the Open Watcom (WASM) assembler. The main benefit of JWASM, arguably, is the nearly full support of Microsoft's Macro Assembler (MASM) syntax. As those in the assembly language community may already know, Microsoft's desire to continually support the development of MASM has been dwindling over the years — if only measurable by a decreasing lack of interest, updates and bug fixes — and thus the future of MASM remains uncertain. While Intel-style syntax x86 assemblers such as NASM have been around for a while, JWASM opens up a new possibility to those familiar with MASM-style syntax to develop in the domains (i.e. other than Windows) in which assemblers such as NASM currently thrive. JWASM is a welcomed tool that supplements the entire x86 assembly language community and will hopefully, in time, generate new low-level interests and solutions."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Old Stems Cells Young Again — Via Vampirism
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-jlIzhwYd7c/Old-Stems-Cells-Young-Again-mdash-Via-Vampirism)
pdragon04 writes to tell us that in recent tests a Howard Hughes Medical Institute team has found that through exposure to "young" blood cells, bone marrow stem cells start to act young again as well. "The researchers have not yet isolated the blood-borne factors that can switch old stem cells back to a more youthful state, but their results are consistent with other recent studies that show stem-cell aging may be reversible. Together those results suggest that it might one day be possible to boost the practical lifespan of stem cells, and thereby increase the body’s resistance to disease and age-related degeneration."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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-- I am looking for MultiNetwork Manager(NetSwitcher) program
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I am looking for MultiNetwork Manager(NetSwitcher) program.Which will you offer to me? How can I download? Thanks

Answer: Well, it just depends how much you are willing to spend. Multinetwork manager 6.2 by vnunet has recieved favourable reviews (download from http://www.vnunet.com/Download/1116391) They provide a time limited demo, so you can evaluate it before buying it and it costs $36 to purchase.Or alternatively, Globesoft's version 6.3(via http://www.webattack.com/get/multinet.shtml)A cheaper alternative is NetSwitcher 2.98 (30 day trial, then $14 to register, trial version available from downloads.com) Apart from that, I have not found any free netswitching programs, if you are not willing to spend money, then try to search for free alternatives on yahoo, altavista or google (although I expect the paid ones offer better features and support).

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- My Downloaded Movie Has No Picture! What's Wrong?(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/257686.htm)

You've just downloaded an .avi or .mpg movie from the Internet. You double-click to launch it, but all you get is sound with no picture. Your media player lets you...

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