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Monday the 8th of February 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Monday the 8th 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/FakeAV-AUG on 8 February 2010 11:00:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavaug.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Iframe-DU on 8 February 2010 11:00:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojiframedu.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Oficla-B on 8 February 2010 11:00:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojoficlab.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Autoit-IX on 8 February 2010 11:00:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32autoitix.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Tiotua-CH on 8 February 2010 11:00:37 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32tiotuach.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MKX on 8 February 2010 08:59:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmkx.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MKY on 8 February 2010 08:59:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmky.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AUF on 8 February 2010 08:59:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavauf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/JSRedir-AK on 8 February 2010 08:59:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjsredirak.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PDFJs-HH on 8 February 2010 08:59:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojpdfjshh.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Push To End Online Gambling Ban Gains Steam
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xsLPGnmb3Jc/Push-To-End-Online-Gambling-Ban-Gains-Steam)
The Washington Post updates a story we discussed last spring about a push in the Democratic-controlled congress to legalize some forms of Internet gambling in the US. "Partly bankrolled by offshore gambling companies, the campaign has already persuaded the Obama administration to delay enforcement of a 2006 law cracking down on Internet wagers. ... The federal government, which rarely prosecutes online gambling, would net billions of dollars in tax and licensing revenue if it were legalized, proponents say. ... The outlook on Capitol Hill, however, is uncertain given a slate of unfinished business... [and] nervousness among Democrats about November midterm challenges. ... [A politically conservative poker player said] 'There's a part of the party that always believes this isn't something people should do. But I think it behooves the party to be a little more broad-minded on this issue.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 3D HDMI Specification Is Set Free
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tZFQR4b4B-8/3D-HDMI-Specification-Is-Set-Free)
An anonymous reader writes "The licenser of the HDMI specification has announced the intent to 'secure the application of 3D' by making the 3D portion of the HDMI 1.4 Specification available for public download, as well as extracts from the upcoming HDMI 1.4a. While the spec includes a 3D component, apparently not everyone has decided to sign up to adopt it. Given the developments happening in DisplayPort v1.2, the next year in displays looks like it will be an interesting one."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Statistical Analysis of U of Chicago Graffiti
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/x3Z8nRKNRII/Statistical-Analysis-of-U-of-Chicago-Graffiti)
quaith writes "Quinn Dombrowski, a member of the University of Chicago's central IT staff, has been recording the graffiti left in the Joseph Regenstein Library Since September 2007. To date she has photographed and transcribed over 620 pieces of graffiti; over 410 of them are datable to within a week of their creation. She has now published in Inkling Magazine a statistical analysis of the entire graffiti collection covering such subjects as love, hate, despair, sex, anatomy, and temporal fluctuations of each of these. After November, both love and despair graffiti drop off significantly until spring, while sex graffiti reaches its one and only peak in December before declining for the rest of the school year. The story includes links to all of the original graffiti photos, which the researcher has made freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google Airs Super Bowl Ad
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SGC-5qhzjew/Google-Airs-Super-Bowl-Ad)
theodp writes "CNET's hunch that Google might run a Super Bowl ad entitled 'Parisian Love' proved to be well-founded. The ad just ran (did you know that you can search the Internet using Google?), and Apple certainly doesn't have to worry about losing its claim to having produced the best Super Bowl ad ever. In fact, you might want to check out the spoof 'Parisian Love' apparently inspired — 'Is Tiger Feeling Lucky?' — if you want to see a better pitch for Google."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake Cisco Sales
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9grFwtfIzNo/Chinese-Man-Gets-30-Months-For-Fake-Cisco-Sales)
alphadogg writes "A Chinese man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a US prison this week for trafficking in counterfeit Cisco Systems gear. Yongcai Li, 33, will also have to pay the networking company nearly $800,000 in restitution after being the conduit for hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of counterfeit computer hardware, the FBI said Friday. Prosecutors said he procured the fake gear in China and then sent it to co-conspirators in the US. His alleged co-conspirators have not been charged. Li was arrested by FBI agents on Jan. 9, 2009, in Las Vegas — while the annual Consumer Electronics Show was taking place there. Two years ago, the FBI claimed to have seized more than $78 million worth of counterfeit equipment in more than 400 seizures."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9J-nCKjtP0c/Restructured-Ruby-on-Rails-30-Hits-Beta)
Curlsman informs us that the first beta of Ruby on Rails 3.0 has been released (release notes here). Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson blogged that RoR 3.0 "feels lighter, more agile, and easier to understand." This release is the first the Merb team has participated in. Merb is a model-view-controller framework written in Ruby, and they joined the RoR development effort over a year ago. Reader Curlsman asks, "So, is version 3 of RoR going to be a big deal, more of the same (good or bad), or just churning technology?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9IZ9Xvnw0aI/White-House-Claims-Copyright-On-Flickr-Photos)
Hugh Pickens writes "US government policy is that photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities are not subject to copyright in the US. But Kathy Gill writes that after originally putting official White House photos in the public domain, since January the Obama White House has been asserting that no one but 'news organizations' can use its Flickr photos taken by the official White House photographer, who is a US government employee. This change appears to be a heavy-handed response to last month's controversy resulting from a billboard that implied the President endorsed The Weatherproof Garmet Co. after the company used an AP photo of the president for a Times Square billboard. However a New York law already protects individuals from unauthorized use of their image for advertising, and the billboard was quickly taken down. Gill writes, 'Whatever the reason, the assertion of these "rights" seems to be in direct contrast to official government policy and is certainly in direct contrast to reasonable expectations by the public, given that the photos are being produced with taxpayer (i.e., public) money. Ironically, the same Flickr page that claims (almost exclusive) copyright also links to the US copyright policy statement.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/y4xngyNpdxY/Pen-Still-Mightier-Than-the-Laptop-For-Notetaking)
theodp writes "While waiting to see if the iPad is a game-changer, this CS student continues to take class notes with pen and paper while her fellow students embrace netbooks and notebooks. Why? In addition to finding the act of writing helps cement the lecture material in her mind, there's also the problem of keeping up with the professor: '[While taking notes on a laptop] every five minutes I found myself cursing at not being able to copy the diagram on the board.' So, when it comes to education or business, do you take notes on a notepad/netbook, or stick with good old-fashioned handwriting? Got any tips for making the transition, or arguments for staying the course?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ixIbswJnJ5I/Paypal-Reverses-Payments-Made-To-Indians)
bhagwad writes "Beginning January 28, Paypal has been reversing the payments made to any Indian provider of services. In addition, Indian users have been unable to withdraw their money to their bank accounts. As a result, a large number of Indian Paypal accounts have a negative balances running into the thousands of dollars. The worst part is that users weren't informed beforehand — the funds were just whisked away. Indian providers have gone ballistic, with over 2,000 posts on a thread on the reversal of payments and over 700 posts on this thread about the delay in transfers. Paypal hasn't given any explanation to this behavior other than they're looking into it. Although Paypal claims in the above blog post that payments made for 'Services' are not being reversed, this is not true. All payments not made for 'Goods' with a shipping address have been reversed — in fact, the Paypal e-mail tells the Indian sellers to encourage their clients to lie and claim that they're paying for goods with a shipping address instead."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WsVVDb2Xu0w/emThe-People-vs-George-Lucasem-To-Premiere-At-SXSW)
skatepark builder writes "David Prowse, the 74-year-old actor who has enjoyed a long and varied career filled with roles such as Darth Vader (Star Wars Episodes IV, V, and VI), is starting 2010 off with two major accomplishments. His victory over colon cancer earlier this month means he'll live to see his top billing in a film premiering next month at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The People vs. George Lucas is a documentary attempting a balanced examination of the love/hate relationship Star Wars fans have developed with the filmmaker and his work over the past three decades. Director Alexandre Philippe distances his film from the one-sided fan rage films that lambaste Lucas, even though the title would suggest otherwise. According to the trailer, The People vs.George Lucas exposes the full spectrum of opinions on Lucas, including those like Prowse, who still refers to him as a 'master.' Philippe captures these opinions through filmed interviews, but perhaps more interestingly, he crowdsourced the commentary by soliciting fan submissions over the internet. The clips seen in the trailer appear to be funny, highly inspired, and are probably more concise than the recently released 70-minute YouTube evisceration of Episode I."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Silicon Valley VCs and the Gender Gap
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_Sl3Lfe4EPs/Silicon-Valley-VCs-and-the-Gender-Gap)
fysdt writes with this excerpt from TechCrunch:
"An analysis of Dunn and Bradstreet data shows that of the 237,843 firms founded in 2004, only 19% had women as primary owners. And only 3% of tech firms and 1% of high-tech firms (as in Silicon Valley) were founded by women. Look at the executive teams of any of the Valley's tech firms — minus a couple of exceptions like Padmasree Warrior of Cisco — you won't find any women CTOs. Look at the management teams of companies like Apple — not even one woman. It's the same with the VC firms — male dominated. You'll find some CFOs and HR heads, but women VCs are a rare commodity in venture capital. And with the recent venture bloodbath, the proportion of women in the VC numbers is declining further. It's no coincidence that only one of the 84 VCs on the 2009 TheFunded list of top VCs was a woman. ... Additionally, it is harder for women to obtain funding than for men. ... historically, women-led companies have received less than 9% of venture capital investments; in 2007, the proportion of funded female CEOs dropped to 3%."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Superbowl Tech Ads, 1976–Present
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NM6Ft2h6eAo/Superbowl-Tech-Ads-1976ndashPresent)
Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld has put together a collection of interesting, funny, and just plain weird Superbowl television advertisements from tech companies — excluding Internet retailers. Everyone has seen the Macintosh ad that played during the 1984 Superbowl, but there are a bunch of other gems, starting with a long-winded ad for the Xerox 9200 from 1976. The funniest is probably EDS's 'herding cats' ad from 2000, but there are some oddities, too, including a bizarre ad for Network Associates depicting a Russian nuclear missile launch, and a very dated ad for Sharp from the mid-1980s. Intel has one ad in the collection from 1997, and it turns out that it is returning with two ads this year that it says feature 'geek humor.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- AU Gov't Still Wants ISPs To Solve Illegal Downloads
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ugcFsOvjR-M/AU-Govt-Still-Wants-ISPs-To-Solve-Illegal-Downloads)
bennyboy64 writes "Australia's Minister for Communications wants internet providers and the film industry to sit down and work out a solution to stop illegal movie downloads, despite a judge ruling in favor of an internet provider not being responsible for policing illegal downloads. The film studios first dragged internet provider iiNet into the Federal Court back in November 2008, arguing that the ISP infringed copyright by failing to take reasonable steps — including enforcing its own terms and conditions — to prevent customers from copying films and TV shows over its network."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RQmXLx56sfc/Plasma-Jets-Could-Replace-Dental-Drills)
Hugh Pickens writes "The first electric dental drill was patented in 1875; modern drills grind the diseased portions of teeth away at up to 500,000 rpm. But dentists have been seeking less invasive ways of wiping out stubborn, tooth-decaying bacteria. Now Live Science reports that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the drills used to treat cavities in our teeth. Researchers recently demonstrated that a small, blowtorch-like device emitting a relatively cool beam of purple plasma could eliminate oral bacteria in cavities, leaving more tooth structure intact than a drill does. To test how well 'cold' plasma jets (about 100F or 38C) sterilize tooth material, researchers took slices of dentin from extracted human molars, doused them with bacteria, and torched them with the plasma jet. An inspection via a scanning electron microscope of the damage done to the germs shows bacterial remnants had holes in their cell walls. When the plasma jet fires, it charges oxygen in the surrounding air, creating highly reactive molecules that can break down the bacteria's defenses. Researchers believe the technique could be available to general dentistry in three to five years."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/GgZJdh6oRNM/95-of-User-Generated-Content-Is-Bogus)
coomaria writes "The HoneyGrid scans 40 million Web sites and 10 million emails, so it was bound to find something interesting. Among the things it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam." Here is the report's front door; to read the actual report you'll have to give up name, rank, and serial number.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 have fitted my CD Burner, what now?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I have my cd burner hook up but i dont know what to do

Answer: ok, well, it should have come with some drivers, you will need to install these to get it working. If you have not got any drivers, then go to the company's website (if you do not know this, then search in yahoo for it, or try our links page at http://www.helpforce.com/main/elinks.html. If you wish to copy CDs, then you will probably need another piece of software (available via the internet, try www.downloads.com)Please note though, burning data (either programs or audio) to CDs that doesnt belong to you and which you have not got permission for may be illegal

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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