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Wednesday the 17th of February 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Wednesday the 17th 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/FakeAV-AWJ on 17 February 2010 12:20:09 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavawj.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/JSRedir-G on 17 February 2010 12:20:09 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjsredirg.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/BytVrfy-C on 17 February 2010 11:11:46 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbytvrfyc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/JSRedir-AR on 17 February 2010 11:11:46 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjsredirar.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Mdrop-CKG on 17 February 2010 11:11:46 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojmdropckg.html?_log_from=rss
W32/AutoRun-AYW on 17 February 2010 11:11:46 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32autorunayw.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MLC on 17 February 2010 05:30:19 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmlc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MMW on 17 February 2010 05:30:19 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmmw.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DwnLdr-IBD on 17 February 2010 05:30:19 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldribd.html?_log_from=rss
W32/VB-ENE on 17 February 2010 05:30:19 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32vbene.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EWa0eKKCOKA/Utah-Assembly-Passes-Resolution-Denying-Climate-Change)
cowtamer writes "The Utah State Assembly has passed a resolution decrying climate change alarmists and urging '...the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its "Endangerment Finding" and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of climate data and global warming science can be substantiated.' Here is the full text of H.J.R 12." The resolution has no force of law. The Guardian article includes juicy tidbits from its original, far more colorful, version.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_dpTk7EVJh8/Todays-Best-CPUs-Compared-To-a-Pentium-4)
Dr. Damage writes "How do current $74 CPUs compare to the $133 ones? To exclusive $1K Extreme Editions? Interesting questions, but what if you took a five-year-old Pentium 4 at 3.8GHz and pitted it against today's CPUs in a slew of games and other applications? The results are eye-opening." Note that this voluminous comparison is presented over 18 pages with no single-page view in sight.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Myst Online: Uru Live Returns As Free-To-Play
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1FJ3lUaET0I/emMyst-Online-Uru-Liveem-Returns-As-Free-To-Play)
agrif writes "Shorah b'shemtee! Uru Live has been released for free, as a first step towards opening its source. This game, an MMO released by the makers of Myst and Riven in 2003, has been canceled, zombified, resurrected, canceled again, and is now about to be released as open source to its dedicated fan base. Massively has written a brief newbie guide if you're unfamiliar with the game."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- High-Speed Video Free With High-Def Photography
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yEKT3sW2DJM/High-Speed-Video-Free-With-High-Def-Photography)
bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What's new is that the picture and the video are captured at the same time on the same sensor. This is done by allowing the camera's pixels to act as if they were part of tens, or even hundreds, of individual cameras taking pictures in rapid succession during a single normal exposure. The trick is that the pattern of pixel exposures keeps the high-resolution content of the overall image, which can then be used as-is, to form a regular high-res picture, or be decoded into a high-speed movie. The research is detailed in the journal Nature Methods (abstract only without subscription).Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FhRdQKBElo4/New-Riddick-Movie-Made-Possible-By-Games)
Hugh Pickens writes "Scott Harris writes on Moviefone that the economics of Hollywood are often baffling, as DVD sales, broadcast fees and merchandising tie-ins balance against advertising costs and pay-or-play deals to form an accounting maze. The latest example is the untitled sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick, released in 2004 to a slew of negative reviews and general viewer indifference. Despite its hefty $105 million budget, most of which was spent on special effects, the film topped out at a paltry $57 million domestically. So how can a sequel be made if the movie lost money? The answer has to do with ancillary profits from revenue streams outside the box office. While the combined $116 million worldwide probably still didn't cover distribution and advertising costs, it likely brought the film close to even, meaning DVD sales and profits from the tie-in video game franchise may have put the movie in the black. In addition, Riddick itself was a sequel to Pitch Black, a modestly budgeted ($23 million) success back in 2000. Extending the franchise to a third film may help boost ancillary profits by introducing the Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick DVDs and merchandise to new audiences, meaning that the new film may not even need to break even to eventually turn a profit for the studio."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google, Apple Call Workers' Race & Gender Trade Secrets
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WdnZG98c_pM/Google-Apple-Call-Workers-Race-amp-Gender-Trade-Secrets)
theodp writes "The Mercury News reports that Google, whose stated mission is to make the world's information universally accessible, says the race and gender of its work force is a trade secret that cannot be released. So do Apple, Yahoo, Oracle, and Applied Materials. The five companies waged a successful 18-month FOIA battle with the Merc, convincing federal regulators who collect the data that its release would cause 'commercial harm' by potentially revealing the companies' business strategy to competitors. Law professor John Sims called the objections — the details of which the Dept. of Labor declined to share — 'absurd.' Many industry peers see the issue differently — Intel, Cisco, eBay, AMD, Sanmina, and Sun agreed to allow the DOL to provide the requested info. 'There's nothing to hide, in our view,' said a spokesman for Intel. Some observers note it's not the first time Google has declined to put a number on its vaunted diversity — in earlier Congressional testimony, Google's top HR exec dodged the question of how many African-American employees the company had."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AgbkIooRn6w/A-Warming-Planet-Can-Mean-More-Snow)
Ponca City, We love you writes "NPR reports that with snow blanketing much of the country, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes; but for scientists who study the climate, there's no contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. 'The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was... in the 1970s,' says Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist. 'So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, DC, for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming.' Increased snowfall also fits a pattern suggested by many climate models, in which rising temperatures increase the amount of atmospheric moisture, bringing more rain in warmer conditions and more snow in freezing temperatures."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Extreme Close-Up of Mars's Moon Phobos
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mfmYQJVoQDk/Extreme-Close-Up-of-Marss-Moon-Phobos)
coondoggie writes "The European Space Agency's Mars exploring satellite will make a number of close-up passes of the Martian moon Phobos. The Mars Express, which the agency launched in 2003, has begun a series of flybys of Phobos, the largest moon of Mars, that will ultimately set a new record for the closest pass to Phobos — skimming the surface at 50 km, or about 31 miles. This is only about 5 times the irregular moon's average radius. The data collected by the satellite could help solve some of the mysteries about the moon, beginning with that of its origin."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Next Flash Version Will Support Private Browsing
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cHGgMiQK7a0/Next-Flash-Version-Will-Support-Private-Browsing)
An anonymous reader writes "The world rolled its eyes when the problem of Flash cookies came to light several months ago. Even if you're careful about cookies or even if you use your browser's private surfing feature, sites can still track you through cookies stored by Flash. However, soon enough the next version of Flash, 10.1, will support private browsing and will integrate with browsers to turn it on when the browser itself is in private browsing mode. Browsers still store data during a private browser session, but they will delete it all at the end of the session. The same will be true of Flash private browsing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/S_HL_6KkPco/Cellulosic-Biofuel-Finally-Ready-For-the-Road)
wdebruij writes "After years of research, promises, and plenty of discussion here, biofuel from inedible greens such as switchgrass — and even from corn cobs — may finally be getting economically viable. Two enzyme producers, Novozyme and Genencor, have both announced that they can now produce fuel at prices competitive with current corn and petrol-based methods. This is particularly good news in the wake of another report that food-based biofuels could cause hunger."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Verizon To Allow Skype Calling On Its Network
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4QcHQXdpvoI/Verizon-To-Allow-Skype-Calling-On-Its-Network)
The Verizon press release begins: "At the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Verizon Wireless and Skype today announced a strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March." What used to be one of the most protective carriers anywhere has been opening up in major ways since the introduction of the Motorola Droid. Phandroid summarizes: "Starting next month, Verizon Smartphone users with data plans will enjoy free and unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls to anyone on the planet. And you’ll enjoy amazingly cheap Skype International calls as well. All this from Verizon Wireless’ 3G network." Some are wondering how the DoJ and law enforcement will react to a major upsurge in fully encrypted traffic.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/C44u84HR1_c/Ask-Matt-Asay-About-Ubuntu-and-Canonical)
A week after the announcement that open source advocate and blogger Matt Asay is leaving Alfresco for Canonical, in the role of COO, Matt has agreed to answer your questions about his role at Canonical, his vision for the future of Ubuntu, or the prospects for open source as we begin to emerge from recession. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply. (Disclaimer: Matt is on the board of advisors for Slashdot's parent company, Geeknet.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xcrL0vnFuGc/Robots-To-Clear-the-Baltic-Seafloor-of-WW-II-Mines)
An anonymous reader writes "A Russian company is building a massive natural gas pipeline that will run across the Baltic Sea floor. But first, they must clear some of the 150,000 unexploded bombs sitting at the bottom of the sea, left there by the Russian and German armies in the 1940s. About 70 of these mines, each filled with 300 kg of explosive charge, sit in the pipeline's path, mostly in its northern section just south of Finland. And so the company contracted to remove the mines is bringing in robots to do the dirty work. Here's how it will work: A research ship deploys the robot to the seabed, where it identifies the exact location of the explosive. After sounding a warning to surrounding ship traffic, scaring fish away using a small explosive, and then emitting a 'seal screamer' of high intensity noises designed to make the area around the blast quite uncomfortable for marine mammals, Bactec's engineers erupt a 5 kg blast, forcing the mine to detonate. This process ensures the safety of humans plus any animals living in the surrounding environment. The operation concludes with the robot being redeployed to clear up the scrap of the now-destroyed bomb."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fpIWTGIlfOQ/Measuring-the-Speed-of-Light-With-Valentines-Day-Chocolate)
Cytotoxic writes "What to do with all of those leftover Valentine's Day chocolates? — a common problem for the Slashdot crowd. The folks over at Wired magazine have an answer for you in a nice article showing how to measure the speed of light with a microwave and some chocolate. A simple yet surprisingly accurate method that can be used to introduce the scientific method to children and others in need of a scientific education."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Malicious Spam Jumps To 3B Messages Per Day
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/aAFlrZeRzEY/Malicious-Spam-Jumps-To-3B-Messages-Per-Day)
Trailrunner7 writes "Last year saw a monstrous increase in the volume of malicious spam, according to a new report (PDF). In the second half of 2009, the number of spam messages sent per day skyrocketed from 600 million to three billion, according to new research. For some time now, spam has been accounting for 90 or more percent of all email messages. But the volume of spam had been relatively steady in the last couple of years. Now, the emergence of several large-scale botnets, including Zeus and Koobface, has led to an enormous spike in the volume of spam."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 installed a new Hard drive and the letters are jumbled up
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I bought a new 80 gb hard drive and after having difficulty copying the old drive (40gb) to the new one, I downloaded a program called Drivewizard that mirrored the old drive to the new one. I then installed the new drive as the master and the old drive as the slave, checked my bios, and everything is set. Then I noticed in the Windows Explorer when I click on the drive letter, the size of the disk is 40mg. I ran Partition Magic to see what it said, and it has Disk 1 partitioned as drives D and E (E having a label of Mirror_dr1) and Disk 2 as my C drive. How is it that my system is using the slave as my C drive? How do I remedy this?

Answer: Your Hard drives should be configured as follows to give the desired effect:New Hard drive on Primary IDE MasterOld Hard Drive on Secondry IDE Master (or Primary IDE Slave if no Secondry IDE cable available.)New Hard Drive partitioned using Microsoft fdisk tool ("fdisk" from the command prompt).Partition the entire hard drive as one Primary DOS Partition.Format using FAT32 or NTFS if you have Windows XP.When you start your PC, the new hard drive should appear as C:.Copy the old hard drive to the new hard drive using which ever tool you wish to use.Old Hard Drive partitioned using Microsoft fdisk tool.Partition the entire hard drive as an Extended DOS Partition.Create one logical drive of the entire size of the hard drive.Format using FAT32 or NTFS if you have XP again.Restart again. The old hard drive should appear has drive D: or whatever you configured it as now.Hope this helps.If you require any further assistance, please feel free to reply to this message. Please include all previous correpondance so that we may more easily track your problem.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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