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Tuesday the 16th of February 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Tuesday the 16th 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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Mal/AutoRun-J on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malautorunj.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-NV on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpknv.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MMP on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmmp.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MMQ on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmmq.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DwnLdr-IBC on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldribc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AWC on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavawc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AWF on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavawf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Fakere-Gen on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeregen.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/JSRedir-AS on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjsrediras.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Renocide-C on 16 February 2010 11:44:27 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32renocidec.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/O6oOZrpUwpI/Tour-de-France-Champion-Accused-of-Hacking)
ub3r n3u7r4l1st writes "A French judge has issued a national arrest warrant for US cyclist Floyd Landis in connection with a case of data hacking at a doping laboratory, a prosecutor's office said. French judge Thomas Cassuto is seeking to question Landis about computer hacking dating back to September 2006 at the Chatenay-Malabry lab, said Astrid Granoux, spokeswoman for Nanterre's prosecutor's office. The laboratory near Paris had uncovered abnormally elevated testosterone levels in Landis' samples collected in the run-up to his 2006 Tour de France victory, leading to the eventual loss of his medal."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Acer Announces First NVIDIA Ion2-Based Netbook
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-XVWVSlzcvk/Acer-Announces-First-NVIDIA-Ion2-Based-Netbook)
MojoKid writes "Acer has just taken the wraps off the new Acer Aspire One 532G netbook at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The machine is the first netbook with dedicated next-generation NVIDIA ION 2 graphics acceleration. The new Aspire One is also enabled with NVIDIA's recently announced Optimus technology to balance multimedia performance when needed, along with battery life savings, seamlessly switching to integrated Intel Atom/Pinetrail graphics when it's not required. Word is Ion 2 is going to be outfitted with twice the number of shaders for even more graphics horsepower as well."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Aluw-qLnXvU/Advanced-Social-Skills-For-Humanoid-Robots)
Lanxon writes "A pan-European team of robotics researchers began a project this year that could see humanoid bots interact with groups of people in a realistic, anthropomorphic way for the first time. The 'humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces' (HUMAVIPS) project has the ambitious goal of making humanoid bots just a bit more human by building algorithms that will enable bots to mimic what psychologists call the 'cocktail party effect' — the human ability to focus attention on just one person in the midst of other people, voices and background noise."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FZ8N1hn9d3U/Are-All-Bugs-Shallow-Questioning-Linuss-Law)
root777 writes to point out a provocative blog piece by a Microsoft program manager, questioning one of the almost unquestioned tenets of open source development: that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Are they? Shawn Hernan looks at DARPA's Sardonix experiment and the Coverity static-analysis bug discovery program in open source projects to conclude that perhaps not enough eyeballs are in evidence. Is he wrong? Why? "Most members of the periphery [those outside the core developer group] do not have the necessary debugging skills ... the vast numbers of 'eyeballs' apparently do not exist. ... [C]ode review is hardly all that makes software more secure. Getting software right is very, very difficult. ... Code review alone is not sufficient. Testing is not sufficient. Tools are not sufficient. Features are not sufficient. None of the things we do in isolation are sufficient. To get software truly correct, especially to get it secure, you have to address all phases of the software development lifecycle, and integrate security into the day-to-day activities."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HxKfaDinrgc/Mobile-Operators-Fight-App-Store-Fragmentation)
angry tapir writes "Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members. The Wholesale Applications Community members include: AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone." The vision seems to be eventually to create one unified app market in addition to Google's and Apple's. The article quotes an analyst noting that the mobile operators have "a poor track record with this type of industry consortium."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UXUDS5fFZPs/Subversives-In-South-Carolina-Mostly-Safe)
sabt-pestnu sends in an update on our story about South Carolina and subversives. "According to Eugene Volokh, the Raw Story article has got it backwards. Westlaw says that the cited statute dates back to 1951, when a lot of anti-Communist statutes were being enacted nationwide. What brought Raw Story's attention to it may be that South Carolina is once again trying to repeal the archaic law. And in any event, a half-century-old case (Yates vs. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)) took most of the teeth out of such laws."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Bounds On the Higgs Boson Mass
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/86bGO4K_cck/New-Bounds-On-the-Higgs-Boson-Mass)
As the LHC continues to run at half power for the next year+, the US-based Tevatron continues to crank out results. Reader hweimer writes "Three new papers in Physical Review Letters present the latest results for the Higgs boson mass coming from Fermilab's Tevatron. The new data mandates that the Higgs boson mass within the standard model lies between 115 and 150 GeV." A year back we discussed the Tevatron's previous shrinking of the search space for the Higgs "God particle."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- How an Android Phone and Facebook Helped Route Haiti Rescuers
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OoR0TdAcnd0/How-an-Android-Phone-and-Facebook-Helped-Route-Haiti-Rescuers)
One intrepid Android fan is extolling the virtues of the open smartphone platform that helped him to route SOS messages in the recent Haiti disaster. "Well, when you are in such a situation, you don't really think about going to Facebook, but it happens that I have a Facebook widget on my Android home screen that regularly displays status updates from my friends. All of a sudden, an SOS message appeared on my home screen as a status update of a friend on my network. Not all smartphones allow you to customize your home screen, let alone letting you put widgets on it. So, I texted Steven about it. As Steven had already been working with the US State Department on Internet development activities in Haiti, he quickly called a senior staff member at the State Department and asked how to get help to the people requesting it from Haiti. State Department personnel requested a short description and a physical street address or GPS coordinates. Via email and text messaging, I was able to relay this information from Port-au-Prince to Steven in Oregon, who relayed it to the State Department in Washington DC, and it was quickly forwarded to the US military at the Port-au-Prince airport and dispatched to the search-and-rescue (SAR) teams being assembled. So the data went from my Android phone to Oregon to Washington DC and then back to the US military command center at the Port-au-Prince airport. I was at first a little skeptical about their reaction: there was so much destruction; they probably already had their hands full. Unexpectedly, they replied back saying: 'We found them, and they are alive! Keep it coming.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Verizon CTO Says 4G Service Is On Track
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/G-dhASt3DS8/Verizon-CTO-Says-4G-Service-Is-On-Track)
Verizon has announced that it is on track to roll out their new 4G LTE service using the 700 MHz band that it acquired in the recent FCC auction. Targeted first towards USB air cards for laptop customers, the service will be extended to cell phones and other mobile devices with embedded LTE eventually. Testing in Boston and Seattle should conclude in the next couple of months and commercial deployments should follow soon thereafter. "Lynch said getting voice to work over LTE has been particularly challenging. But that challenge is getting resolved as Verizon and other members of the GSMA announced Monday they are supporting a standard that uses IMS technology to deliver voice services over LTE. Still, more work needs to be done. Until a solution is complete, Verizon will use its CDMA network to provide voice services. And the LTE network will be used for data. Eventually, when voice over LTE becomes a reality, Verizon will use that technology. Verizon will also have to integrate EV-DO into its LTE offering to ensure that customers can switch to the 3G EV-DO network when the 4G LTE network is not available. Even though Verizon is being aggressive in building its network, it won't happen overnight."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Steampunk Con Mixes In More Maker Fun
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9NyOF3AGMtg/Steampunk-Con-Mixes-In-More-Maker-Fun)
California has once again been blessed with another steampunk convention, this time to be held in Emeryville, CA on March 12-14 as the "Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition." This year's event promises to mix in much more of the DIY/maker flavor for a greater hands-on feel. Steampunk has been gaining much broader appeal in recent months with the continued growth of maker communities, and the many delightful varieties of music and literature. The con will feature, among other things, a 2 day track of 2-hour how-to, hands-on, and interactive workshops gear towards makers, DIY-ers, mad scientists, and evil geniuses. Of course, if you are an evil genius you probably don't need a workshop except as a gathering for potential test subjects.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Five Years of YouTube and Forced Evolution
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/o1iStiJDsvs/Five-Years-of-YouTube-and-Forced-Evolution)
NakNak writes to mention that the DailyMaverick has a feature looking back at five years of YouTube, some of the massive changes that have been forced through as a result of its overwhelming popularity, and what changes might be necessary going forward. "Google, which bought YouTube less than two years after it was founded for what was then considered outrageously expensive $1.65 billion, does not want Microsoft or Apple (or anybody else) to own the dominant video format. So it has become the biggest early tester of HTML5. Your browser doesn't support HTML5? Google launches its own browser, Chrome. Need to use Internet Explorer at work because that's all your IT department supports? Google launches a Chrome framework that effectively subverts IE and makes it HTML5-compatible. The final blow will be the day that YouTube switches off Flash and starts streaming only to HTML5 browsers. On that day all browsers will be HTML5 compatible or they will perish in the flames of user outrage."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/z5iEVC3pGxE/Microsoft-To-Get-100M-Annual-Tax-Cut-and-Amnesty)
reifman writes "Despite a $2.8 billion deficit, Washington State's House Bill 3176 would provide Microsoft with an effective $100 million tax cut annually and possible amnesty on its $1.27 billion Nevada tax maneuverings. Under current law, all of Microsoft's worldwide licensing revenues of approximately $20.7 billion annually are taxable at .484 percent. Under the new law, only the portion of software licenses sold to Washington state customers would be taxable. Ironically, after slashing Microsoft's tax burden, HB3176 directs the Department of Revenue to crack down on 'abusive tax transactions' like those in Nevada — except for a loophole that may provide Microsoft amnesty on its twelve year practice. The bill's lead sponsor is Ross Hunter of Medina, home to Bill Gates and a number of current and former Microsoft billionaires and multi-millionaires, and other areas around Microsoft's corporate campus."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4O4oyeqNag0/Iceman-Gets-13-Years-For-2nd-Hacking-Offense)
Hugh Pickens writes "Computerworld reports that Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers, the longest known sentence ever handed down for hacking charges. This isn't Butler's first time facing a federal hacking sentence. After a promising start as a security consultant who did volunteer work for the FBI, Butler was arrested for writing malicious software that installed a back-door program on computers — including some on federal government networks — that were susceptible to a security hole. Butler served an 18-month prison term for the crime and fell on hard times after his 2002 release. In desperation, he turned again to cybercrime and by the time of his arrest in September 2007, he had built the largest marketplace for stolen credit and debit card information in the world."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google, Yahoo and Others Fight the Aussie Filter
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ghO_NawVccQ/Google-Yahoo-and-Others-Fight-the-Aussie-Filter)
TheFrunj writes "In the wake of an attack on Australian Government websites comes a statement from a joint group of companies banding together to oppose Senator Conroy's infamous Internet Filter. AtomicMPC has posted the statement up on their site: 'We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online.' Backed by the weight of the Inspire Foundation, Google and Yahoo, this is a good sign for the local and international community that will hopefully spark some positive reaction."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Comcast Shoots For New Image, Rebranding As Xfinity
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H063oDlTrb4/Comcast-Shoots-For-New-Image-Rebranding-As-Xfinity)
artemis writes "Comcast is making efforts to repair and restore its 'former glory' by the act of transformation, rebranding itself as Xfinity. Hopefully step 2 is an actual change in quality and customer service. 'Comcast will use the Xfinity rebranding to talk up its improved customer service as well as its technical upgrades. “There’s a lot to be proud of,’’ said Steve Hackley, Comcast’s senior vice president for the Greater Boston region. “We want to take credit for it.’’ W2 Group’s Weber said such a rebranding is “a bit old-fashioned’’ and a new name is unlikely to impress consumers. “I think the public is smarter than that now,’’ he said.'"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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-- MSHTML.DLL Error in Internet Explorer
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I keep getting an error poping up that says IExploreMSHTML.DLL. Try restarting your computer and I've done that .do'nt know to fix problem can you help?

Answer: I would recommend trying to do a windows update, try using a program such as norton system works.failing that i would almost garentee that reinstalling windows would solve the problemThanks Chris Fry

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- The Best Web Browser: Vote Now(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/258352.htm)

Do you use Opera 10? Are you a fan of Safari 4 or Google Chrome? Maybe you are diehard Firefox. Whichever it is, the race is on, and you'll...

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