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Saturday the 6th of February 2010

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

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1. Latest Virus Alerts From Sophos
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Troj/Agent-MJZ on 6 February 2010 05:40:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmjz.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Banc-F on 6 February 2010 05:40:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbancf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AUC on 6 February 2010 05:40:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavauc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/AutoIt-IV on 6 February 2010 02:50:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojautoitiv.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AUB on 6 February 2010 02:50:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavaub.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PDFJs-HI on 6 February 2010 02:50:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpdfjshi.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Tidola-Gen on 6 February 2010 02:50:13 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojtidolagen.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-ATZ on 5 February 2010 22:53:34 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavatz.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Backdr-E on 5 February 2010 19:07:33 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbackdre.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Behav-364 on 5 February 2010 19:07:33 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbehav364.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- The New National Health Plan Is Texting
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XwMQg0sN8e4/The-New-National-Health-Plan-Is-Texting)
theodp writes "With a gushing press release, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra announced the launch of Text4baby, 'an unprecedented mobile health public-private partnership' designed to promote maternal and child health. Expectant women are instructed to 'Enter the date of the first day of your last menstrual period' to start receiving 'timely and expert health information through SMS text messages' until their child reaches the age of 12 months (limited to 3 free messages/week). The White House Blog has more information on the 'historic collaboration between industry, the health community and government.' Separately, the White House announced plans to spend $3,000 on 'Game-Changing' Solutions to Childhood Obesity. Once again, Dilbert proves to be scarily prescient."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gbafte9sx20/Israeli-Scientists-Freeze-Water-By-Warming-It)
ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Rules May Raise Cost of Buying Gadgets Online
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nMTUKEUuAk8/New-Rules-May-Raise-Cost-of-Buying-Gadgets-Online)
ericatcw writes "Buying your next laptop or smartphone online could suddenly get a lot more expensive if a little-known US Department of Transportation proposal to tighten rules around the shipment of small, Lithium-Ion battery-powered devices by air goes through, says an industry group opposing the move. The changes, designed primarily to reduce the risk from Lithium-Ion batteries, would also forbid air travelers from carrying spare alkaline or NiMH batteries in their checked-in luggage, according to the head of the Portable Rechargeable Battery Association. The proposal is under review until March 12. It can be viewed and commented upon by members of the public."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Red Hat Exchange Is Dead
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BCIenRnFMF4/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead)
darthcamaro writes "In 2007, Red Hat launched the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) — an appstore, if you will, of open source partner applications sold from a Red Hat website. Sounds like a good idea, right? While an appstore works well for Apple, turns out that an appstore for open source (from a Linux vendor) isn't such a good idea. 'When we came out with RHX we were hoping for more ambitious adoption but we've learned that selling third-party applications via a marketplace is challenging,' Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of corporate development said. 'When you've got marketplaces that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marketplace or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marketplace was, there isn't a real efficient marketplace.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ddIHpYpCsBY/Microsoft-Finally-To-Patch-17-Year-Old-Bug)
eldavojohn writes "Microsoft is due for a very large patch this month, in which five critical holes (that render Windows hijackable by an intruder) are due to be fixed, in addition to twenty other problems. The biggest change addresses a 17-year-old bug dating back to the days of DOS, discovered in January by their BFF Google. The patch should roll out February 9th."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ekA-FbDzneA/Google-Docs-Replaces-OpenOffice-In-Ubuntu-Netbook-Edition)
uneuser writes "Digitizor reports that the Ubuntu developers have dropped OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 and replaced it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Oh, What a Lovely Standards War
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2tXsYdZom_s/Oh-What-a-Lovely-Standards-War)
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "You know something big must be afoot when people start to get worked up over video compression standards. Basically, the issue is whether the current de facto standard, H.264, will continue to dominate this field, and if not, what might take over."

Related, reader eihab writes "Nuanti, a company that develops Web browsing technologies, has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight browser plugin. Nuanti's Highgate Media Suite will enable support for standards-based HTML5 video streaming with Theora in browsers that have Silverlight. It works entirely without requiring the users to install any additional software."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SXaHjtG1LeQ/Physicists-Discover-How-To-Teleport-Energy)
MikeChino writes "A physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The technique is based upon prior research that shows it's possible to teleport information from one location to another, and involves making a measurement on each [of] an entangled pair of particles. The measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system, and then by carefully choosing the measurement to do so on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy. Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- IETF Turns Introspective With New Wiki
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N94-OYwZwV8/IETF-Turns-Introspective-With-New-Wiki)
alphadogg writes to tell us that the Internet Engineering Task Force has decided to document the successes and failures of past standards and the reasons why. The hope is that lessons learned can influence future decisions. "Grading the success of the IETF standards can also serve several other functions, Crocker pointed out. It could help working groups focus their thinking on how their standards may get implemented, acting in effect a bit like a report card. A secondary benefit of the wiki is that it could serve as an aid in public relations, a place for the standards body to tout its successes. This is not the IETF's first foray into deriving lessons learned from its own work, Housley said. In 2007, Microsoft software architect Dave Thaler gave a talk at the IETF 70 meeting, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in which he outlined some of the factors that make a protocol a success."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- India Ditches UN Climate Change Group
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PLgPq5YPJO8/India-Ditches-UN-Climate-Change-Group)
Several readers have told us that the Indian Government is moving to establish its own group to address the science of climate change since it "cannot rely" on the official United Nations panel. "The move is a severe blow to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following the revelation parts of its 3000 page 2007 report on climate science was not subjected to peer review. A primary claim of the report was the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, but the claim was not repeated in any peer-reviewed studies and rebuffed by scientists. India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced that the Indian government will established a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor climate change in the region. 'There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,' Ramesh said. 'I am for climate science.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- FBI Pushing For 2-Year Retention of Web Traffic Logs
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GIOl_fc5-8s/FBI-Pushing-For-2-Year-Retention-of-Web-Traffic-Logs)
suraj.sun writes to tell us that the FBI is pushing to have ISPs keep detailed records of what web sites customers have visited for up to two years. Claiming a desire to combat "child pornography and other serious crimes," the FBI and others are pressing for increased data retention, which they have been doing since as early as 2006. "If logs of Web sites visited began to be kept, they would be available only to local, state, and federal police with legal authorization such as a subpoena or search warrant. What remains unclear are the details of what the FBI is proposing. The possibilities include requiring an Internet provider to log the Internet protocol (IP) address of a Web site visited, or the domain name such as cnet.com, a host name such as news.cnet.com, or the actual URL such as http://reviews.cnet.com/Music/2001-6450_7-0.html. While the first three categories could be logged without doing deep packet inspection, the fourth category would require it. That could run up against opposition in Congress, which lambasted the concept in a series of hearings in 2008, causing the demise of a company, NebuAd, which pioneered it inside the United States."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OKlMwRDWk3g/DARPA-Aims-for-Synthetic-Life-With-a-Kill-Switch)
jkinney3 writes to mention that DARPA's mad scientists have undertaken a new program designed to create synthetic organisms, complete with a "kill switch." The project, dubbed BioDesign, is dumping $6 million into "removing the randomness of evolutionary advancement" by creating genetically engineered masterpieces. "Of course, Darpa's got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they'll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create 'tamper proof' cells. Plus, the synthetic organism will be traceable, using some kind of DNA manipulation, 'similar to a serial number on a handgun.' And if that doesn't work, don't worry. In case Darpa's plan somehow goes horribly awry, they're also tossing in a last-resort, genetically-coded kill switch."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games Shutting Down
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GyDvQbiKftU/Xbox-Live-For-Original-Xbox-Games-Shutting-Down)
itwbennett writes "Giving no explanation beyond that it 'will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community,' Microsoft's General Manager for Xbox Live, Mark Whitten, announced that as of April 15th, Microsoft will be shutting down its Xbox Live service for the original Xbox and its games. 'Cold comfort for those of you who still enjoy playing Xbox titles like Halo 2 with your friends,' writes blogger Peter Smith. But Smith notes that Whitten's announcement does hint at some form of restitution for those affected, encouraging users to check their LIVE messages for more details and opportunities."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IGqKBlPm698/Stay-Off-the-Grid-Win-10000)
DariusD writes "Last summer, Wired writer Evan Ratliff wrote a story about how people erase their identities and start over. After it ran, he tried to disappear — spending 25 days on the lam until a few enterprising Wired readers tracked him down through some brilliant hacking and sleuthing. Now we're going to try the experiment again. Evan, Wired, Loneshark Games and I are working with Universal Pictures to do another, similar contest connected to the new film Repo Men, and this time we want you to go on the run. We need four applicants willing to disappear from their lives from late February to late March. If they can stay hidden for that time period, they'll end up with $10,000 each."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Eokk864lJ-M/Robotic-Audi-To-Brave-Pikes-Peak-Without-a-Driver)
Scifi83 writes "A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has filled the trunk of an Audi TTS with computers and GPS receivers, transforming it into a vehicle that drives itself. The car will attempt Pikes Peak without a driver at race speeds, something that's never been done."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 can I copy two or three songs from one music CD to another?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: How can I copy two or three songs from different music Cd's and save them on another thru my CD Burner? I tried but it seems like they use track as a name of songs. and if they have the same track as a name that causes the Cd burner to fail>Also, I am getting error message when trying to copy thru my Cd Burner>> Buffer error or running out.

Answer: Hello Michael,I Would Recomend you to download those songs to your hard drive, grab them with some of those CD-to-MP3 Programs (easy CD Creator or Audiograbber) and then try to burn them, try changing the name, I'm sure you wont get an error msg, I've done it a couple of times and it works for me (by the way, if your CD burner program doesnt convert automatically MP3 to WAV Download MPEG Suite)For the Buffer Error, try to close every program you got open, leave the computer just burning the CD. Reply Posted on 31/8/2002 Althouth the above reply will work its and awfull big job for a few songs, i would get a copy of ahead nero 5.5 and install it, as when u drag a cd file on to the project it automaticly puts it as a temp file on the hard drive at a hugly fast speed and therfore lets u add as many files from different cd's as is needed!!!

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- What Is 'Jumping the Shark'? What Does This Expression Mean?(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/258170.htm)

In an online discussion forum, you see the odd phrase "This health care bill debate has jumped the shark. I'm outta here!" You have seen this expression in an email...

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