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Monday the 1st of February 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Monday the 1st of February 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-MIS on 1 February 2010 10:30:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmis.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MJD on 1 February 2010 10:30:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmjd.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/JSRedir-AR on 1 February 2010 10:30:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjsredirar.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PDFEx-CZ on 1 February 2010 10:30:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpdfexcz.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/QakBot-H on 1 February 2010 10:30:23 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojqakboth.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MIR on 1 February 2010 06:11:15 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmir.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MJC on 1 February 2010 06:11:15 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmjc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Mdrop-CKH on 1 February 2010 06:11:15 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojmdropckh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/QakBot-D on 1 February 2010 06:11:15 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojqakbotd.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Qakbot-E on 1 February 2010 06:11:15 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojqakbote.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NRsoaoc_73Q/Students-Failing-Because-of-Poor-Grammar)
innocent_white_lamb writes "30% of freshman university students fail a 'simple English test' at Waterloo University (up from 25% a few years ago. Academic papers are riddled with 'cuz' (in place of 'because') and even include little emoticon faces. One professor says that students 'think commas are sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words.' At Simon Fraser University, 10% of students are not qualified to take the mandatory writing courses."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EF2zfeycYrs/China-Is-Winning-Global-Race-To-Make-Clean-Energy)
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world's largest maker of wind turbines, has leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels, and is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants. These efforts to dominate renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2-3ZdetOEoc/Key-EDS-Witness-Bought-Internet-Degree)
An anonymous reader writes "EDS's key witness during the firm's court case against BSkyB was shown to have bought his degree online – but still managed to get a worse mark than a dog. Joe Galloway said he had a degree from Concordia College in the US Virgin Islands and gave detailed evidence on how he took plane journeys between the islands and attended a college there. But while questioning Galloway in court, Mark Howard QC managed to obtain exactly the same degree as Galloway from Concordia College for his dog 'Lulu' with one key difference – the dog got a higher mark."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- India Objects To Google Book Settlement
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CYP7YnK5DVE/India-Objects-To-Google-Book-Settlement)
angry tapir writes "About 15 Indian authors and publishers, and two Indian organizations, have submitted their objections to Google's plan to scan and sell books online. Google's proposed settlement of a US lawsuit turns copyright law on its head, according to Siddharth Arya, legal counsel for the Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation, which licenses reproduction rights to books and other publications."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Intel-Micron Joint Venture Develops 25nm NAND
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ZAu1-b0ej9s/Intel-Micron-Joint-Venture-Develops-25nm-NAND)
Ninjakicks writes "IM Flash Technologies is a joint venture between Intel and Micron that is targeted for producing NAND flash memory. With a focus on R&D, IMFT has doubled NAND density approximately every 18 months. Tomorrow IMFT will announce the launch of their 25 nanometer NAND technology — a major advancement in the semiconductor industry. Intel and Micron can now lay claim to the smallest production ready-semiconductor process technology in the world. IMFT took members of the press on a tour of the new 25nm fab and it's an interesting view into this bleeding-edge manufacturing process."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aREt2oPEiTA/FOSS-CAD-and-3D-Modeling-Software)
Paul server guy writes "I work at a privately funded, open source, manned, return to the moon mission — Yes really, and Yes, we really are going to put man (and woman) back on the moon. Since we are open source, we want all of our tools to be, too. What we are looking for is CAD software that we can feed into Blender (or the like) to do 3D modeling with. Many of the engineers have tried working with Blender and Art of Illusion, but have not been pleased. They want to just draw the parts, then feed them to the art people who will run them through the 3D modelers for videos, illustrations and such. What is your preference?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Mum's the Word On Google Attack At Davos
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UPU-h-FmIlM/Mums-the-Word-On-Google-Attack-At-Davos)
theodp writes "BusinessWeek reports that the cyber attack on Google was the elephant-in-the-room at the annual meeting of world leaders in Davos. 'China didn't want to discuss Google,' Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank AG and a co-chair of this year's World Economic Forum, said in an interview. China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang made that clear, he added. Even Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn't bring up China, and Bill Gates was mum on the topic in an interview. The reluctance of companies to talk about China illustrates the pressure on them to protect their business in the country, while the US government doesn't want to upset Chinese investors, said Andy Mok of Red Pagoda Concepts LLC. 'People have their commercial interests,' explained Deutsche Bank's Ackermann."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- DIY Texting System For Really Underground Radio
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/n7zJeRytISQ/DIY-Texting-System-For-Really-Underground-Radio)
Gulthek writes "Sixteen-year-old Alexander Kendrick has created a device that allows texting and other data transfer from almost 1000 feet underground. The tech could allow rapid emergency communication with the surface and opens the potential for scientific measurements without the need to continually visit (and disturb) the cave environment." There's some kvetching in the NPR story's comments that it's not the first use of cave radios, but that seems to miss the point.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/o_Hz3CHwu6A/Toyota-Pedal-Issue-Highlights-Move-To-Electronics)
cyclocommuter writes with an excerpt from a brief WSJ story on increasing electronic control of car components: "The gas pedal system used Toyota Motor Co.'s recall crisis was born from a movement in the auto industry to rely more on electronics to carry out a vehicle's most critical functions. The intricacy of such systems, which replace hoses and hydraulic fluid with computer chips and electrical sensors, has been a focus as Toyota struggled to find the cause for sudden acceleration of vehicles that led the company to halt sales of eight models this week."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Making Sense of ACTA
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CKNLW1hBnfw/Making-Sense-of-ACTA)
Hodejo1 writes "This past week Guadalajara, Mexico hosted the 7th secret meeting of ACTA proponents who continue to ignore demands worldwide to open the debate to the public. Piecing together official and leaked documents from various global sources, Michael Geist has coalesced it all into a five part ACTA Guide that offers structured insight into what these talks might foist upon the populace at large. 'Questions about ACTA typically follow a familiar pattern — what is it (Part One of the ACTA Guide listing the timeline of talks), do you have evidence (Part Two), why is this secret (Part Three), followed by what would ACTA do to my country's laws (Part Four)? Countering the momentum behind ACTA will require many to speak out" (Part Five).'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YWxhdPmrWPc/Apples-Trend-Away-From-Tinkering)
theodp writes "Having cut his programming teeth on an Apple ][e as a ten-year-old, Mark Pilgrim laments that Apple now seems to be doing everything in their power to stop his kids from finding the sense of wonder he did: 'Apple has declared war on the tinkerers of the world. With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers. There won't ever be a MacsBug for the iPad. There won't be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector editor, or an iPad Peeks & Pokes Chart. And that's a real loss. Maybe not to you, but to somebody who doesn't even know it yet.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yKW17BBdST4/Using-Infrared-Cameras-To-Find-Tastiness-of-Beef)
JoshuaInNippon writes "Might we one day be able to use our cell phone cameras to pick out the best piece of meat on display at the market? Some Japanese researchers seem to hope so. A team of scientists is using infrared camera technology to try and determine the tastiest slices of high-grade Japanese beef. The researchers believe that the levels of Oleic acid found within the beef strongly affect the beef's tenderness, smell, and overall taste. The infrared camera can be tuned to pick out the Oleic acid levels through a whole slab, a process that would be impossible to do with the human eye. While the accuracy is still relatively low — a taste test this month resulted in only 60% of participants preferring beef that was believed to have had a higher level of Oleic acid — the researchers hope to fine tune the process for market testing by next year."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Newzbin.com Usenet Indexing Trial Set To Begin Next Week
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/go1LmXB5PoE/Newzbincom-Usenet-Indexing-Trial-Set-To-Begin-Next-Week)
An anonymous reader writes "Only a few weeks after a jury acquitted Alan Ellis, the owner of the BitTorrent site 'OinK's Pink Palace,' of copyright infringement, another high profile case is about to start next week, this time for the newsgroup side of things. The MPA (Motion Picture Association) trial against Newzbin.com, a website that indexes NZB files and content on the newsgroups, will begin in London on Monday. Will lightning strike twice in favor of website indexing?"
Torrentfreak points out one major difference between the cases: "Ellis’s charge was one of fraud, allegedly conducted by an individual and dealt with under criminal law, while that leveled against Newzbin is one of allowing and inducing illegal copying, i.e copyright infringement, but carried out by a bona fide company under civil law."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/6z6n-YAUx4Y/Tesla-Motors-To-Suspend-Roadster-Production)
Wyatt Earp writes with news that a recent SEC filing from Tesla Motors revealed the company plans to stop production on its electric Roadster (and the Roadster Sport as well) in 2011. This will leave the automaker without any cars to sell until the launch of its Model S sedan (financed in part by $465 million in DoE loans) in 2012. Tesla plans to resume production of Roadster models "at least a year" after the Model S arrives. From Wired's Autopia blog:
"'As a result, we anticipate that we may generate limited, if any, revenue from selling electric vehicles after 2011 until the launch of the planned model S,' the company says in the SEC filing. That may not be a problem if S production starts on plan and goes off without a hitch, but if Tesla hits any snags, things could get ugly fast — a point it concedes in the filing. 'The launch of the Model S could be delayed for a number of reasons and any such delays may be significant and would extend the period in which we would generate limited, if any, revenues from sales of our electric vehicles.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bxQdhmm7WW4/Obama-Budget-To-Triple-Nuclear-Power-Loan-Guarantees)
Hugh Pickens writes "When President Obama said in his State of the Union address on Wednesday that the country should build 'a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants,' it was one of the few times he got bipartisan applause. Now the NY Times reports that administration officials have confirmed their 2011 federal budget request next week will raise potential loan guarantees for nuclear projects to more than $54 billion, from $18.5 billion, and a new Energy Department panel will examine a vastly expanded list of options for nuclear waste, including a new kind of nuclear reactor that would use some of it. The Energy Department appears to be getting close to offering its first nuclear loan guarantee. Earlier this week, Southern Co. Chief Executive David Ratcliffe said the company expects to finalize an application for a loan guarantee 'within the next couple months,' while Scana Corp., which has also applied, is 'a couple months behind Southern' and is hopeful of receiving a conditional award 'sometime in the next months.'"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 drives are running in MSDOS mode, how can I change this?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: My C: drive and D: drive are running in dos mode and making my computer slow, how do I change it?

Answer: Check for any "Dos-Mode" Cd-Rom drivers being loaded in the Autoexec.bat or config sys.If they are there, REM them out you wont need them.---------------------------------------------Have you formatted your hdd lately? Did you perhaps format with a Dos diskette? (dos 6.22 under?)----------------------------------------------

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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