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Friday the 28th of May 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Friday the 28th of May 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/Agent-V on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malagentv.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/DelpInj-C on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/maldelpinjc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-NLP on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentnlp.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-NLQ on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentnlq.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-NLR on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentnlr.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Banker-EYM on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbankereym.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Drpr-I on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdrpri.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/JSRedir-BK on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojjsredirbk.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/KeyLo-HL on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojkeylohl.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Zbot-PS on 28 May 2010 10:37:56 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojzbotps.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-cBdt2CREsU/Telcos-Waking-Up-To-the-Value-of-Your-Location)
holy_calamity writes "Cell phone networks represent probably the most effective data collectors of all time: almost everyone's movements and communications are logged in some way by these firms thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones. Now they're beginning to wake up to the value of that data, as researchers mine call records to study travel and social patterns at previously unimaginable scales. Not surprisingly, some are thinking about how to monetize that data, too."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ATSoGyHJbFQ/XBMC-Discontinues-Xbox-Support)
Xistic writes with news that the XB in XBMC won't mean Xbox any more. Quoting the project's own web site: "The last official release for the XBOX by the XBMC team was Atlantis, over 18 months ago. Since then, one brave soul (Arnova) has been merging code from the main codebase into the XBOX branch in our repository. Because there were many users out there that took advantage of these updates, we had no problem with this. But times have changed. The XBOX has hard limits for what it can handle. Some users are satisfied with these limits, and we encourage them to use XBMC there if they are happy. But it is a popular misconception that official XBOX development is still taking place by the team, so we have decided to set it free. We have enough on our plates already, and worrying about a deprecated platform just increases our workload. A few days ago the XBOX branch was finally removed from our subversion repository."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Tetris Clones Pulled From Android Market
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OPYgGNevlDI/emTetrisem-Clones-Pulled-From-Android-Market)
sbrubblesman writes "The Tetris Company, LLC has notified Google to remove all Tetris clones from Android Market. I am one of the developers of FallingBlocks, a game with the same gameplay concepts as Tetris. I have received an email warning that my game was suspended from Android Market due to a violation of the Developer Content Policy. When I received the email, I already imagined that it had something to do with it being a Tetris clone, but besides having the same gameplay as Tetris, which I believe cannot be copyrighted, the game uses its own name, graphics and sounds. There's no reference to 'Tetris' in our game. I have emailed Google asking what is the reason for the application removal. Google promptly answered that The Tetris Company, LLC notified them under the DMCA (PDF) to remove various Tetris clones from Android Market. My app was removed together with 35 other Tetris clones. I checked online at various sources, and all of them say that there's no copyright on gameplay. There could be some sort of patent. But even if they had one, it would last 20 years, so it would have been over in 2005. It's a shame that The Tetris Company, LLC uses its power to stop developers from creating good and free games for Android users. Without resources for a legal fight, our application and many others will cease to exist, even knowing that they are legit. Users will be forced to buy the paid, official version, which is worse than many of the ones available for free on the market. Users from other countries, such as Brazil in my case, won't even be able to play the official Tetris, since Google Checkout doesn't exist in Brazil; you can't buy paid applications from Android Market in these countries."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OsEg-k3Ng2Q/UK-Home-Office-Set-To-Scrap-National-ID-Cards)
mjwx writes "In what would seem to be a sudden outbreak of common sense for the UK, the Home Office has put forward a plan to scrap the national ID card system put into place by the previous government. From the BBC: 'The Home Office is to reveal later how it will abolish the national identity card programme for UK citizens. The bill, a Queen's Speech pledge, includes scrapping the National Identity Register and the next generation of biometric passports.' The national ID card system, meant to tackle fraud and illegal immigration, has drawn widespread criticism for infringing on privacy and civil rights. However, the main driver for the change in this policy seems to be the 800-million-pound cost. Also in the article, indications of a larger bill aimed at reforms to the DNA database, tighter regulation of CCTV, and a review of libel laws."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/W2a02NqH730/Blizzard-Boss-Says-Restrictive-DRM-Is-a-Waste-of-Time)
Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the worryingly-addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27th, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes which have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New Zealand Joins Aussie Bid For Vast Radio Telescope Array
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0gWscM3y--w/New-Zealand-Joins-Aussie-Bid-For-Vast-Radio-Telescope-Array)
schliz writes "A radio telescope in New Zealand has joined five in Australia to challenge Southern Africa to host the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) in 2012. The newly connected telescope in Warkworth, New Zealand (PDF), is connected to an Australian data processing facility via a 1 Gbps network. Each telescope reportedly produces up to 1 Tb of data per hour of observation. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce an exabyte of data per day."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Intel Considers Hardware Acceleration For Google's WebM Format
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xKyH1ITqxzM/Intel-Considers-Hardware-Acceleration-For-Googles-WebM-Format)
CWmike writes "Intel is considering hardware-based acceleration for Google's new WebM video file format in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity, an Intel executive said on Thursday. Announced last Wednesday at Google I/O, WebM files will include video streams compressed with the open-source VP8 video codec, which was acquired by Google when it bought On2 Technologies in February. 'Just like we did with other codecs like MPEG2, H.264 and VC1, if VP8 establishes itself in the Smart TV space, we will add it to our [hardware] decoders,' said Wilfred Martis, a general manager at Intel's Digital Home Group."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- CERT Releases Basic Fuzzing Framework
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IxoX-Y1UZtY/CERT-Releases-Basic-Fuzzing-Framework)
infoLaw passes along this excerpt from Threatpost: "Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team has released a new fuzzing framework to help identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities from software products. The Basic Fuzzing Framework (BFF) is described as a simplified version of automated dumb fuzzing. It includes a Linux virtual machine that has been optimized for fuzz testing and a set of scripts to implement a software test."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Is Wired's App Really the Future of Magazines?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dWNqcv0BmUg/Is-Wireds-App-Really-the-Future-of-Magazines)
MBCook writes "Interfacelab has put up a review of Wired's new iPad app, and declared, 'The only real differentiation between the Wired application and a [1990s] multimedia CD-ROM is the delivery mechanism.' While providing little interactivity other than a fancy page-flip, the application is made of XML and images, including two for the text of each page in portrait and landscape mode. This seems to be why the application is 500MB. The article suggests this was done to get the app out quickly after Flash was officially vetoed by Steve Jobs."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JmJaVeDn-B4/A-Genetically-Engineered-Fly-That-Can-Smell-Light)
An anonymous reader writes "It sounds like a cool — if somewhat pointless — super-powered insect: a fly that can smell light! Researchers added a light-sensitive protein to a fruit fly's olfactory neurons, which caused the neurons to fire when the fly was exposed to a certain wavelength of blue light. Adding the protein specifically to neurons that respond to good smells, like bananas, makes for a light-seeking fly."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- "Innocent Infringement" Defense May Reach Supreme Court
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7nV-1CHTaUc/Innocent-Infringement-Defense-May-Reach-Supreme-Court)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Several years ago a federal court in Texas ordered the RIAA, in an 'innocent infringement' case against a teenager, to either accept $200 per infringed work, or to go to trial over the innocent infringement issue, in Maverick Recording Co v. Harper. Recently, an appeals court reversed, saying that the defendant could not avail herself of the innocent infringement defense since there were CDs, bearing copyright notices, available in stores, even though the copies she had made were from MP3 files which bore no such notice. Now, a petition for certiorari has been filed on the defendant's behalf, arguing that the 5th Circuit's ruling would make it impossible for anyone to interpose an innocent infringement case, even where they had never seen a copyright notice. The lawyers filing the petition on defendant's behalf are the same firm that represented Jammie Thomas in her second trial, and the motion which resulted in her verdict being reduced from $1.92 million to $54,000."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/l9R6SfKIGEI/The-Man-At-Microsoft-Charged-With-Destroying-IE6)
Barence writes "The man in charge of Internet Explorer has told PC Pro that he's been tasked with destroying IE6. Internet Explorer 6 continues to be the most used browser version in the world at the ripe old age of nine. IE6's position as the default browser in Windows XP means many companies still cling to the browser. 'Part of my job is to get IE6 share down to zero as soon as possible,' said Ryan Gavin, head of the Internet Explorer business group. Microsoft has also been giving further previews of Internet Explorer 9, with demonstrations showing two 720p HD videos running simultaneously on a netbook, thanks to IE9's GPU-accelerated graphics."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Are We Ready For a True Data Disaster?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pKeri3tcC6Y/Are-We-Ready-For-a-True-Data-Disaster)
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions how long we can go before a truly catastrophic data disaster strikes. 'The lure of potential profits in the information economy, combined with the apparent ease with which data can be gathered and a lack of regulation, creates a climate of recklessness in which a "data spill" of the scale of the Deepwater Horizon incident seems not just likely, but inevitable.' Witness Google mistakenly emailing potentially sensitive business data to customers of its Local Business Center service, or the 1.5 million Facebook accounts and passwords recently offered up on an underground hacking forum. 'These incidents seem relatively minor, but as companies gather ever more individually identifiable data and cross-reference these databases in new and more innovative ways, the potential for a major catastrophe grows.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Japan Moves Toward Blocking Online Child Porn
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/rep5S5GX6Os/Japan-Moves-Toward-Blocking-Online-Child-Porn)
crimeandpunishment writes "In the wake of increased international demands that it do something about its legal lenience toward child pornography, Japan is beginning to take action, albeit slowly. Thursday a government task force recommended that kiddie porn sites be blocked as soon as they're discovered, instead of waiting for an investigation or arrests. Making or distributing child porn is illegal in Japan, but possession is not ... and critics have called that a legal loophole making Japan an international hub for child porn."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Flash Destroyer Tests Limit of Solid State Storage
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/bHN3PS7esqI/Flash-Destroyer-Tests-Limit-of-Solid-State-Storage)
An anonymous reader writes "We all know that flash and other types of solid state storage can only endure a limited number of write cycles. The open source Flash Destroyer prototype explores that limit by writing and verifying a solid state storage chip until it dies. The total write-verify cycle count is shown on a display — watch a live video feed and guess when the first chip will die. This project was inspired by the inevitable comments about flash longevity on every Slashdot SSD story. Design files and source are available at Google Code."

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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-- Im getting an error when I open explorer on Win ME
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I'm getting an error every to i open explorerIexplorer has cause an error with user.exe restart windows if problem continuesanyone with an idea why this is happening?Thanks

Answer: Well dave, it seems a common problem for Win ME, however, it doesn't have a lot of solutions.First of all, I've found that installing new video cards under ME (Mostly GeForce) may cause some troubles with user.exe, if you have installed new video cards, or if you have a GeForce video card, uninstall their own drivers and let them run with the ME drivers, or download the latest drivers for them.the second option could be a USB modem, if you have one I'd recomend you to get the latest drivers.Also check all the drivers for all you hardware, and try to download the latest drivers or install the drivers that comewith Windows MEif nothing of this works, downgrade to IE 3.11 or use another web browser such as Netscape, it might work for you.My Last recomendation, Upgrade to winXP or installl Win2k pro, those are very stable O/S Reply Posted on 31/8/2002 Althought the above may work i dont belive that there is any need to downgrade your browser or change your operating system - windows ME is know for its problems however! on the windows cd that you should have got with your computer, if u do a search on it for filename user.exe - if you copy this file into the c:\windows folder this should solve the problem!

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- Juggling Your Personal and Professional Social Networks(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/2010/05/28/juggling-your-personal-and-professional-social-networks.htm)

LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare are now parts of our daily lives. But how does one participate in these social networks without committing a professional faux pas? Is it a...

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