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Tuesday the 23rd of February 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Tuesday the 23rd 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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Mal/BackDr-G on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbackdrg.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Bifrose-Z on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbifrosez.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-MK on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpkmk.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-ND on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpknd.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Renocide-C on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malrenocidec.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/VBDrop-I on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malvbdropi.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MOE on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmoe.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MOF on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmof.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-MOG on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmog.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Delf-FEI on 23 February 2010 12:37:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdelffei.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Microsoft, Amazon Ink Kindle and Linux Patent Deal
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/XhLmbMo0z5M/Microsoft-Amazon-Ink-Kindle-and-Linux-Patent-Deal)
theodp writes "Microsoft says it has reached a wide-ranging IP agreement with Amazon in which each company has granted the other a license to its patent portfolio. Microsoft says the agreement covers technologies in products such as Amazon's Kindle — including open-source and proprietary technologies used in the e-reader — in addition to the use of Linux-based servers. Microsoft issued a news release celebrating the accord, while Amazon declined to comment. 'We are pleased to have entered into this patent license agreement with Amazon.com,' said Microsoft's deputy general counsel. 'Microsoft's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry, and this agreement demonstrates our mutual respect for intellectual property as well as our ability to reach pragmatic solutions to IP issues regardless of whether proprietary or open source software is involved.' A Microsoft representative declined to say which of its products are covered by the deal."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- EU Privacy Chief Says ACTA Violates European Law
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/E7HWxe26Y5I/EU-Privacy-Chief-Says-ACTA-Violates-European-Law)
An anonymous reader writes "Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, has issued a 20-page opinion expressing concern about ACTA (PDF). Michael Geist's summary of the opinion notes that it concludes that the prospect of a three-strikes and you're out system may violate European privacy law, that the possibility of cross-border enforcement raises serious privacy issues, and that ACTA transparency is needed now."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Patent Markings May Spell Trouble For Activision
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/nZONi2XnqtA/Patent-Markings-May-Spell-Trouble-For-Activision)
eldavojohn writes "If you pick up your copy of Guitar Hero and read the literature, you'll notice it says 'patent pending' and cites a number of patents. A group alleges no such patent pends nor are some of the patents applicable. If a judge finds Activision guilty of misleading the public in this manner, they could become liable for up to $500 per product sold under false patent marking. The patents in question seem to be legitimately Guitar Hero-oriented, and little is to be found about the mysterious group. The final piece of the puzzle puts the filing in Texas Northern District Court, which might be close enough to Texas Eastern District Court to write this off as a new kind of 'false patent marking troll' targeting big fish with deep coffers."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dnkPuCgkZtM/1938-Superman-Comic-Sells-For-1M)
slasher999 writes in to note a new world record sale for a comic: an instance of Action Comics #1, 1938, sold for $1 million at auction. Both the buyer and the seller remain anonymous. This comic marked the first time a superhero went to work in a city, and the first time a man flew without mechanical aid.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- An Early Look At Halo: Reach
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/barTabK58dA/An-Early-Look-At-emHalo-Reachem)
KatanAlpha writes "Based on all the information coming out about Halo: Reach, it seems that Bungie's basic philosophy has been: 'The sequels to the first Halo sucked. Let's fix that.' We've already seen a little bit of this with Halo: ODST, wherein Bungie returned to some of the core elements of Halo gameplay and ditched many of the changes introduced in Halo 2 and 3. Reach seems to continue this idea while trying to invigorate the franchise by introducing greatly improved graphics and additional gameplay mechanics."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- NGO Networks In Haiti Cause Problems For ISPs
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5d5yD0bE7zA/NGO-Networks-In-Haiti-Cause-Problems-For-ISPs)
angry tapir sends in an article from GoodGear Guide that begins: "While the communications networks that aid groups set up quickly following the earthquake in Haiti were surely critical to rescue efforts, the new networks have had some negative effects on the local ISP community. More than a month after the earthquake devastated the island nation, local ISPs are starting to grumble about being left out of business opportunities and about how some of the temporary equipment — using spectrum without proper authorization — is interfering with their own expensive networks, causing a degradation of their services."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7v3NGGWOVbc/Debunking-a-Climate-Change-Skeptic)
DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Lost Nazi Uranium Found In a Dutch Scrapyard
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WtxLo8q4ASc/Lost-Nazi-Uranium-Found-In-a-Dutch-Scrapyard)
colin_faber writes "Lewis Page of the Register is reporting that forensic nuclear scientists at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre traced the two pieces of metal found in a Dutch scrapyard — described as a cube and a plate — back to their exact origins and dates. Apparently both came from ores extracted at the 'Joachimsthal' mine in what is now the Czech Republic from the former Nazi nuclear-weapons programme of the 1940s." The article runs through the roadblocks that, unknown to the Allies, the Nazi regime erected against their possible success in any nuclear bomb development during the war.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- How Banker Trojans Steal Millions Every Day
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/b6uyK1WORv4/How-Banker-Trojans-Steal-Millions-Every-Day)
redsoxh8r notes a blog post describing in some detail the operation of "man in the browser" Trojans used to empty victims' bank accounts. "Banker trojans have become a serious problem, especially in South America and the US. Trojans like Zeus, URLZone and others are the tip of the iceberg. These toolkits are now standard-issue weapons for criminals and state-sponsored hackers. Like Zeus, URLZone was created using a toolkit (available in underground markets). What this means is that the buyer of this toolkit can then create customized malware or botnets with different command-and-controls and configurations (such as which banks to attack), but having all the flexibility and power of the original toolkit. Having such a toolkit in the hands of multiple criminal groups paints a scary picture. It's simply not enough to eliminate a particular botnet and criminal group to solve this problem."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OnLEovNG9Hg/IOC-Orders-Blogger-To-Take-Down-Video)
An anonymous reader writes "The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video from his website showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. The IOC asserts that it owns all the rights to all images taken at the games, and only licensed broadcasters can use them. However, the blogger, Stephen Pate, points to a Canadian law that allows copyrighted images to be used in newsworthy cases."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Real-Time, Movie-Quality CGI For Games
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/DDepv2ZDA_o/Real-Time-Movie-Quality-CGI-For-Games)
An anonymous reader writes "An Intel-owned development team can now render CGI-quality graphics in real time. 'Their video clips show artists pulling together 3D elements like a jigsaw puzzle (see for example this video starting at about 3:38), making movie-level CG look as easy as following a recipe.' They hope that the simplicity of 'Project Offset' could ultimately give them the edge in the race to produce real-time graphics engines for games."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- MySQL's Influence On the GPL
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jPEgxBChjoU/MySQLs-Influence-On-the-GPL)
An anonymous reader writes "Ex-MySQL'er Brian Aker goes into the history of MySQL and the GPL. His point is that MySQL used the GPL in an over-reaching manner; and now that MySQL is gone as an entity, and the campaigns are over, that the GPL may return to an accurate definition."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- An Interview With Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bJLuECYKVAQ/An-Interview-With-Cybersecurity-Czar-Howard-Schmidt)
Trailrunner7 writes to tell us that US cybersecurity czar Howard Schmidt recently gave an interview where he discusses his career and what he sees as the priorities of the positions. "Howard Schmidt has been involved in just about every aspect of the security industry during his career. After stints in the Air Force and at Microsoft, he served as a cybersecurity advisor to George W. Bush. Now, after heading back to the private sector for several years, he's been appointed to serve as President Obama's security advisor."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New English/Arabic Translation Site Hopes To Promote Citizen Diplomacy
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/h1N-hekCljw/New-EnglishArabic-Translation-Site-Hopes-To-Promote-Citizen-Diplomacy)
Wired has mention of a new site that hopes to encourage a grassroots "citizen diplomacy" movement by combining English/Arabic translation software with a Facebook-style meeting place. "Meedan, which officially launches Monday, lets users post stories and comments in English and have them automatically translated into Arabic, or the opposite. People who don’t share a common language can have an online discussion in near real time. The name, appropriately, means 'gathering place' or 'town hall'; in Arabic.
Think of it as a social network filled with people you don't know, but want to understand."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Learning Python, 4th Edition
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AtmDaDD8YLw/Learning-Python-4th-Edition)
thatpythonguy writes "Learning Python is a well-written book by an experienced Python trainer that has served the Python community well since the first edition was published in 1999. Now, at its fourth edition, this book by Mark Lutz arguably continues to be Python's bible." Read on for the rest of Ahmed's review.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 do I turn off auto complete?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: When i type things in say a google search, words that i have already typed come up for me to select. How do i or where do i go to make what i have already typed previously to not pop up?

Answer: right click internet explorer, go to properties,click on the content tab. under personal information, click on auto complete and remove the checks, also clear everything.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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