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Wednesday the 16th of June 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Wednesday the 16th of June 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/DelfInj-F on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/maldelfinjf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/BHO-QS on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbhoqs.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/BHO-QT on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbhoqt.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Clikon-A on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojclikona.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Dloadr-DAB on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdloadrdab.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Domur-Gen on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdomurgen.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Mdrop-CQW on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojmdropcqw.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Spy-GV on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojspygv.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/UnIRC-A on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojunirca.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/ZipMal-U on 16 June 2010 10:08:41 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojzipmalu.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Kepler Mission Finds 752 Extrasolar Planet Candidates
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/91hX38BdwYQ/Kepler-Mission-Finds-752-Extrasolar-Planet-Candidates)
An anonymous reader lets us know about the initial release of data from the Kepler spacecraft, launched in the spring of 2009, which has been hunting extrasolar planets. The instrument has found 752 candidates to examine in its first 43 days of operation. This is exciting news, because even if only half of the possibilities pan out as exoplanets (as the Kepler team expects) the results would still almost double the count of known planets. And some of the new ones could be Earth-sized, or not too much larger. Controversy has erupted however because NASA has decided to allow the Kepler team to withhold 400 of the best candidates for its own examination, releasing about 350 others to the worldwide community. The reasons for this are complicated and the New York Times does a good job of digging into the issue of proprietary vs. public data. Nature.com first reported two months ago on the decision to hold back some of the data.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Solar-Powered Ultralight To Try 24-Hour Flight
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tckSpsARPTk/Solar-Powered-Ultralight-To-Try-24-Hour-Flight)
blair1q writes "When the solar aircraft Solar Impulse lifts off from an airfield in Switzerland on a sunny day at the end of June, it will begin the first ever manned night flight on a plane propelled exclusively by power it collects from the sun. Former Swiss Air Force pilot Andre Borschberg and round-the-world balloonist Bertrand Piccard developed the aircraft, and Borschberg will be the pilot for this mission. 'The flight will require a lot of attention and concentration — the plane doesn't have an auto-pilot, it has to be flown for 24 hours straight.' For him, the most exciting part of the venture is 'being on the plane during the day and seeing the amount of energy increasing instead of decreasing as on a normal aircraft.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pcMfgMcigZE/In-Ukraine-IT-Freelancing-Under-Threat)
An anonymous reader writes "According to the new tax law (Google translation; Russian original) that is being developed now and should take effect on January 1, 2011, it will not be possible for a private Ukrainian entrepreneur to provide any services to foreign companies without becoming a full-fledged company with a dedicated bookkeeper. Currently it is possible to perform such services and pay the equivalent of $25 in tax. Instead of raising the tax (which is overall welcomed by the community), the legislators plan to outlaw ISP, e-commerce, and Internet-based services — along with any services provided to foreign entities — for individual entrepreneurs. So starting in 2011, freelancers in Ukraine will have several choices: stop doing freelance work, start working illegally, become a full-fledged company subject to multiple cumbersome rules for taxation, or leave the country."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Israeli Startup Claims SSD Breakthrough
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/SHCdx6YtFZU/Israeli-Startup-Claims-SSD-Breakthrough)
Lucas123 writes "Anobit Technologies announced it has come to market with its first solid state drive using a proprietary processor intended to boost reliability in a big way. In addition to the usual hardware-based ECC already present on most non-volatile memory products, the new drive's processor will add an additional layer of error correction, boosting the reliability of consumer-class (multi-level cell) NAND to that of expensive, data center-class (single-level cell) NAND. 'Anobit is the first company to commercialize its signal-processing technology, which uses software in the controller to increase the signal-to-noise ratio, making it possible to continue reading data even as electrical interference increases.' The company claims its processor, which is already being used by other SSD manufacturers, can sustain up to 4TB worth of writes per day for five years, or more than 50,000 program/erase cycles — as contrasted with the 3,000 cycles typically achieved by MLC drives. The company is not revealing pricing yet."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Miscreants Exploit Google-Outed Windows XP Zero-Day
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P12mhUxxSos/Miscreants-Exploit-Google-Outed-Windows-XP-Zero-Day)
CWmike writes "A compromised website is serving an exploit of the bug in Windows' Help and Support Center, identified by a Google engineer last week, to hijack PCs running Windows XP. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at antivirus vendor Sophos, declined to identify the site, saying only that it was dedicated to open source software. 'It's a classic drive-by attack,' said Cluley. The tactic was one of two that Microsoft said last week were the likely attack avenues. (The other was convincing users to open malicious e-mail messages.) The vulnerability was disclosed last Thursday by Google security engineer Tavis Ormandy, who also posted proof-of-concept attack code. Ormandy defended his decision to reveal the flaw only five days after reporting it to Microsoft. Cluley called Ormandy's action 'utterly irresponsible,' and in a blog post asked, 'Tavis Ormandy — are you pleased with yourself?'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Fermilab Experiment Hints At Multiple Higgs Particles
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/iDJzNe_Algk/Fermilab-Experiment-Hints-At-Multiple-Higgs-Particles)
krou writes "Recent results from the Dzero experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator suggest that those looking for a single Higgs boson particle should be looking for five particles, and the data gathered may point to new laws beyond the Standard Model. 'The DZero results showed much more significant "asymmetry" of matter and anti-matter — beyond what could be explained by the Standard Model. Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick J Fox from Fermilab say this large asymmetry effect can be accounted for by the existence of multiple Higgs bosons. They say the data point to five Higgs bosons with similar masses but different electric charges. Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.'" There's more detail in this writeup from Symmetry Magazine, a joint publication of SLAC and Fermilab. Here's the paper on the arXiv.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LOTKcTffTyY/Digitally-Filtering-Out-the-Drone-of-the-World-Cup)
qubezz writes "World Cup soccer fans may think a hornet's nest has infiltrated their TVs. However the buzz that is the background soundtrack of the South African-hosted games comes from tens of thousands of plastic horns called vuvuzelas, that are South Africa's version of ringing cowbells or throwing rats. It looks like the horns won't be banned anytime soon though. A savvy German hacker, 'Tube,' discovered that the horn sound can be effectively filtered out by applying a couple of digital notch filters to the audio at the frequencies the horn produces (another summary in English). Now it looks like even broadcasters like the the BBC and others are considering using such filters on their broadcasts."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OMSCzRDusfM/FBIs-Facebook-Monitoring-Leads-To-Arrest-In-England)
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that armed police were called to a UK school earlier today after being advised of a potential threat by the FBI. The school stated that the FBI 'raised the alarm after Internet scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words,' strongly implying that they are carrying out routine, automated surveillance of social networking sites. While in this case it does appear that there may have been a genuine threat, the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- PS Move Launch Date and Price Announced, Portal 2 For the PS3
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YYBHarFVKC8/PS-Move-Launch-Date-and-Price-Announced-emPortal-2em-For-the-PS3)
Sony took the stage for the last major keynote of E3 this afternoon, splitting their attention evenly between hardware improvements and new games. First, they talked about 3D technology — Sony plans to try driving 3D adoption in a similar way to what they did with Blu-ray, with 20 titles planned for March 2011 or earlier. Headlining those will be Killzone 3 (coming February 2011), Gran Turismo 5 (coming November 2nd), Tron Evolution, Mortal Kombat, and Crysis 2. Sony also released launch details for their PS Move motion control system. It will be released on September 19th in the US, the motion controller will cost $50, and the navigation controller will cost $30. Several games will get retroactive Move support, such as Resident Evil 5, Heavy Rain, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. An RPG called Sorcery was demonstrated; your character has a wand that's very similar to the controller, and you throw arcane bolts or draw walls of fire just as you'd expect. Read on for more about Sony's E3 announcements.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Airplanes Unexpectedly Modify Weather
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RviU9jmraR8/Airplanes-Unexpectedly-Modify-Weather)
reillymj writes "Commercial airliners have a strange ability to create rain and snow when they fly through certain clouds. Scientists have known for some time that planes can make outlandish 'hole-punch' and 'canal' features in clouds. A new study has found that these odd formations are in fact evidence that planes are seeding clouds and changing local weather patterns as they fly through. In one case, researchers noted that a plane triggered several inches of snowfall directly beneath its flight path."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- 178 Arrested In US/EU Credit Card Cloning Ops
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/o-B16ehxjjg/178-Arrested-In-USEU-Credit-Card-Cloning-Ops)
eldavojohn writes with this report from Brian Krebs: "Authorities have moved in on 178 people accused of working in credit card cloning labs across the USA and Europe, but with the bulk of the work apparently operating out of Spain. The source states that 'Police in 14 countries participated in a two-year investigation, initiated in Spain, where police have discovered 120,000 stolen credit card numbers and 5,000 cloned cards, and arrested 76 people and dismantled six cloning labs. The raids were made primarily in Romania, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland, and the United States, with arrests also made in Australia, Sweden, Greece, Finland, and Hungary. The detainees are also suspected of armed robbery, blackmail, sexual exploitation, and money-laundering, the police said.' Krebs notes a new credit card debuting at Turkish banks that appears to have a built-in LCD that has a random six-digit number associated with each transaction much like RSA SecurID keys used for computer logins."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Yv3emzdH-0k/Modern-Day-Equivalent-of-ByteCompute-Magazine)
MochaMan writes "I grew up in the '80s on a steady diet of Byte and Compute! magazines, banging in page after page of code line by line, and figuring out how sound, graphics, and input devices worked along the way. Since then, the personal computer market has obviously moved away from hobbyists intent on coding and understanding their machines down to the hardware, but I imagine there must still be a market for similar do-it-yourself articles. Perhaps the collective minds of Slashdot can divine some online sources of fun and educational mini-projects like 'write your own assembler' or 'roll your own bootloader.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Nintendo Announces Raft of New Games, 3DS Details
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yXU_SN5QQBQ/Nintendo-Announces-Raft-of-New-Games-3DS-Details)
Nintendo gave a keynote presentation at E3 today, showing off a wealth of upcoming titles for the Wii, the DS, and the 3DS. Shigeru Miyamoto started things off by demonstrating Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword for the Wii, due out next year. While playing it, you hold the Wii Remote and Nunchuck like a sword and shield, and swing naturally at enemies. There's also a bow and arrow, a whip, and a flying bug you can control to go drop bombs on enemies. Nintendo also briefly showed an NBA Jam game, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, and a new set of party games that uses the Wii Remote in unusual ways — for example, multiple players balancing it to disarm a bomb, or seeing which player can be the first to pick up the right controller from the table. Continuing on, they revealed GoldenEye 007, a long-awaited successor to the popular N64 game, due out this holiday season. It will feature split screen play, online multiplayer, and several different game modes. Next, Disney came out with a presentation on their upcoming Epic Mickey game. In it, Mickey can interact with the world using paint and paint-thinner, effectively adding onto or removing objects and characters. In addition to the 3D environment, there is also a part of the game that exists as a sidescrolling platformer, with levels based on classic cartoons. Read on for more about Metroid, Kid Icarus, Metal Gear Solid, and the 3DS.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Wikipedia To Unlock Frequently Vandalized Pages
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ot5-OJxtog4/Wikipedia-To-Unlock-Frequently-Vandalized-Pages)
netbuzz writes "In an effort to encourage greater participation, Wikipedia, the self-described 'online encyclopedia that anyone can edit,' is turning to tighter editorial control as a substitute for simply 'locking' those entries that frequently attract mischief makers and ideologues. The new system, which will apply to a maximum of 2,000 most-vulnerable pages, is sure to create controversies of its own."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- IEEE Working Group Considers Kinder, Gentler DRM
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kmRTib0UY8M/IEEE-Working-Group-Considers-Kinder-Gentler-DRM)
slave5tom writes "An IEEE working group is trying to put the genie back in the bottle. Its scheme will allow unlimited copying of encrypted content, which will require a playkey to activate. Trying to add a cost by making the playkey 'rivalrous' (what you take I lose) and rescuing the big content players from the brink of oblivion does seem futile, but it is entertaining to watch them fight the inevitable."

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 am building my own computer and it wont startup
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: Recently I built my own computer.The relevant specs (I think) are:CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2100Motherboard: Shuttle AK35GT2PS: Allied 400WRAM: Multiwave 512MB PC2700 DDRVideo card: PNY Geforce3 Ti200Sometimes my computer starts sometimes it does not. When it does work, everything works properly. When it does not work, there is nothing displayed on the screen and no beeps are made. All fans spin, the hard drive light lights and goes out, and the CD drive light lights and goes out. All connections are secure and were checked numerous times. Clearing the CMOS seems to help the computer work, but not immediately. The computer seems to work the least in the morning, and tends to stay working all day if it starts working. The video card is not the problem, as I tested it numerous times while the computer was down (both the new video card in an old PC, and an old video card in the new PC, the old video card failed in the new PC although it works in the old PC).

Answer: hi there, i have built many many computers and this is a common problem, generaly i think that will find that the problem is related to an earth loop, dont laugh or say 'I havnt changed anything' becuase i would put money on this being the problem, the solution is to take everthing back out the case (sorry!) and set it all up on a table (net metal :-) ) and try running the computer like that to see if it then works!If / when it does, check all the screw holes in the case to make sure that nothing is sticking up, then put everything back in again, dont screw the motherboard in to tight, but enough to hold it in place.Hope this helps and let us know if it works or you need more help.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- What Does 'O.P.' Stand For?(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/2010/06/16/what-does-o-p-stand-for.htm)

At an online discussion forum, you see the phrase "in regards to the OP, I think that health care is going to be pivotal in this coming election". What does...

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