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Saturday the 3rd of July 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Saturday the 3rd of July 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/EncPk-QT on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpkqt.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/FakeAV-CS on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malfakeavcs.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-NUQ on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentnuq.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-NUT on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentnut.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-NUV on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentnuv.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Badsrc-J on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbadsrcj.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/BanHost-AM on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbanhostam.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/BredoZp-AP on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbredozpap.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Digitala-A on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdigitalaa.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-BLC on 3 July 2010 06:03:58 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavblc.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Internet Sales Tax Gets a New Champion
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VkY8G6NHk1o/Internet-Sales-Tax-Gets-a-New-Champion)
Archness1 writes with an excerpt from Declan McCullagh's piece at CNET about the recently renewed push for a sales tax on Internet purchases, led by Massachusetts Representative Bill Delahunt. "At the moment, Americans who shop over the Internet from out-of-state vendors usually aren't required to pay sales taxes. Californians buying books from Amazon.com or cameras from Manhattan's B&H Photo, for example, won't be required to cough up the sales taxes that they would if shopping at a local mall." That could all change, though.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Firefox Mobile 1.1 Released
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/P76FL1MryHE/Firefox-Mobile-11-Released)
An anonymous reader writes "Firefox Mobile 1.1 has been released for Maemo devices such as the Nokia N900. Madhava Enros has put together a field guide for Firefox Mobile 1.1 which highlights what's new and notable in this release."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/cun1x3Cj3Yk/UK-Govt-Launches-Your-Freedom-Website-To-Seek-Laws-Worth-Repealing)
Firefalcon writes "The UK Government launched Thursday the 'Your Freedom' website, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to 'identify laws that should be repealed.' In a recent tweet, Police State UK pointed out an article in the New Statesman which appeals for people to call on the Government to repeal the ill thought-out Digital Economy Act that was rushed through Parliament without sufficient scrutiny. While part of the Act is regarding the digital TV switchover, other sections allow for users to be restricted or disconnected from the Internet at the behest of copyright owners, which goes against the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' that has been in place since the Magna Carta."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/j-nknTxBizk/IE9-Flaunts-Hardware-Accelerated-Canvas)
An anonymous reader writes "Over on the IE blog they have a rundown of IE9's hardware accelerated support for the canvas element. They write, 'With the recent release of the latest IE9 platform preview, we talked about how we're rebuilding the browser to use the power of your whole PC to browse the web, and to unlock a new class of HTML5 applications. One area that developers are especially excited about is the potential of HTML5 canvas. Like all of the graphics in IE9, canvas is hardware accelerated through Windows and the GPU. In this blog post we discuss some of the details behind canvas and the kinds of things developers can build.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Porting Aquaria To the PSP
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8EHpCL1yymE/Porting-emAquariaem-To-the-PSP)
Apple Prophet writes "Just a few short weeks after BitBlot released the source to Aquaria as part of the Humble Indie Bundle, Andrew Church hacked up an ambitious homebrew port of the game to the PSP. He wrote a detailed synopsis of the technical challenges in an article on the Wolfire Blog, and of course, contributed all of the patches back to the project so anyone with a homebrew-equipped PSP can try it out. Check out the mercurial repository for the source."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Diaspora On Schedule, One Month In
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ajeD-ImN6UU/Diaspora-On-Schedule-One-Month-In)
schlick writes with word that the Diaspora project (last mentioned here several weeks back) has an update with a demo and some screen shots. Diaspora's goal: to provide social networking without the privacy invasion possibilities inherent in sites like Facebook.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BvXKdIWReG4/Russias-Unmanned-Capsule-Misses-Space-Station)
mikesd81 writes "Russia's unmanned cargo ship Progress 38 missed docking with the ISS and sailed right on by it instead of docking on autopilot. A telemetry lock between the Russian-made Progress module and the space station was lost and the module flew past at a safe distance. NASA said the crew was never in danger and that the supplies are not critical and will not affect station operations. There will be no other attempts at docking today, and the orbit of the module raises questions of any other attempts again. Packed aboard the spacecraft are 1,918 pounds of propellant for the station, 110 pounds of oxygen, 220 pounds of water and 2,667 pounds of dry cargo — which includes spare parts, science equipment and other supplies."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4JV4fhGSx8M/The-Back-Button-the-Most-Clicked-Firefox-Icon)
darthcamaro writes "How many times did you click the 'Back' button in your browser last week? According to a new study from Mozilla, it's likely that you clicked 'Back' a whole lot. 'Across Windows, Mac and Linux 93.1 percent of users clicked the button at least once over the course of a five-day period. In total the study reported that users clicked on the back button 66 times over the course of five days. The next most used button is the 'Reload' button with 73.2 percent usage and 22 clicks on average per user over five days. Other areas of the main window that were heavily used include the Search Bar where users input search queries. The study found that 67.9 percent of users used the Search Bar for an average of nearly 16 clicks per user over the course of five days.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Boy Builds Wall-Climbing Machine Using Recycled Vacuums
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HWOWOXXJQUg/Boy-Builds-Wall-Climbing-Machine-Using-Recycled-Vacuums)
Joe McIntosh writes "Hibiki Kono just might be a boy genius. The 13-year-old decided he wanted to climb vertical surfaces like his hero, Spiderman. So, he used two 1,400-watt recycled vacuum cleaners and a little bit of elbow grease to make a machine that allows him to scale walls. Kono has been scaling the walls of his UK school and has told the media that he hopes his invention will help window washers eliminate clumsy ladders from their daily routine."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Indian Government Threatens RIM, Skype With Ban
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/daRUMn08PqQ/Indian-Government-Threatens-RIM-Skype-With-Ban)
gauharjk writes "India's Department of Telecommunications has been asked by the government to serve a notice to Skype and Research In Motion to ensure that their email and other data services comply with formats that can be read by security and intelligence agencies, or face a ban in India if they do not comply within 15 days. A similar notice is also being sent to Google, asking it to provide access to content on Gmail in a readable format."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Most Console Gamers Still Prefer Physical Media
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vUkspKEHfZI/Most-Console-Gamers-Still-Prefer-Physical-Media)
arcticstoat writes "Despite the advent of online game stores on all three major consoles, most console gamers apparently still prefer hoarding collections of gaming discs to downloading games. A recent survey conducted by Ipsos in the UK revealed that 64 per cent of the 1,000 users polled would rather have games on physical discs, while only 25 per cent would prefer digital copies. In the survey, 55 per cent of those polled said price was the key factor in determining their interest in downloading games, while 27 per cent said they wanted games available online before they were in the shops. Ipsos' director Ian Bramley explained, 'Interest absolutely drops away when you get to the types of pricing that you might charge for a new physical disc. People's perceptions are that they're not prepared to pay as much for digital content — they make the connection that it's not a physical disc and therefore it should be cheaper.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3tV-RrR-T18/Colleges-Risk-Losing-Federal-Funding-If-They-Dont-Fight-Piracy)
crimeandpunishment writes
"The US government is making colleges and universities join in the fight against digital piracy by threatening to pull federal funding. Beginning this month, a provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 requires colleges to have plans to combat unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials on their networks. Colleges that don't do enough could lose their eligibility for federal student aid. 'Their options include taking steps to limit how much bandwidth can be consumed by peer-to-peer networking, monitoring traffic, using a commercial product to reduce or block illegal file sharing or "vigorously" responding to copyright infringement notices from copyright holders.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- New US Broadband Projects Get $795 Million In Funding
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TJCvtRozgVE/New-US-Broadband-Projects-Get-795-Million-In-Funding)
snydeq writes "The Obama administration has announced nearly $795 million in grants and loans to 66 new broadband projects across the nation. The subsidies — to be doled out by the US NTIA and the US Rural Utilities Service — will bring broadband service to 685,000 businesses, 900 health-care facilities, and 2,400 schools, according to officials. The NTIA will award $404 million to 29 projects, and the grants will finance 6,000 miles of new fiber-optic lines. Most of the money will finance middle-mile broadband network projects. The RUS will award $390.9 million, with $163 million in loans and the rest in grants. Most of the RUS money is focused on last-mile broadband projects."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Halo Elite Cosplay Puts Others To Shame
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/m9rz3Ye57Vo/Halo-Elite-Cosplay-Puts-Others-To-Shame)
AndrewGOO9 writes "Pete Mander, a special effects artist from Ontario, Canada seems like he might have either had way too much time on his hands or just really enjoys Halo. Either way, this is one of those costumes that makes all of the cosplayers at a con feel like their best efforts just weren't quite up to par."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- What Bilski Means For Biotech Patents
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/kwyVy48NB20/What-Bilski-Means-For-Biotech-Patents)
eldavojohn writes "Patents aren't just a software thing, and while Bilski's dismissal didn't shake the ground for software, it's certainly making waves in the biotech community. You may recall Prometheus v. Mayo, in which doctors fought a biotech startup's methodology patents. Well, medical method patents are now being reconsidered by order of the Supreme Court. Stocks of biotech startups jumped as this news broke, but questions remain on how the lower Federal Circuit court will rule when it reconsiders these cases of medical testing. It's clear the Supreme Court has 'ruled that judges should be more flexible in determining if methods, rather than objects, are eligible for patents, citing emerging technologies such as medical testing.' So Bilski may result in dire news for medical methods and testing patents."

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 just bought some RAM and the motherboard doesnt recognise it
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I have a Tiny Home Performance 600. I have bought an SDRAM 256MB, PC133 and the motherboard does not recognise the memory. Motherboard is Microstar International MS6178 and it should have been fine. WE have tried the same memory on another PC and the memory was not recognised neither.What memory shall I swap for? Thanks a lot.

Answer: I have done some checking on your motherboard type. According to my information, the memory you purchaced should be compatible with your motherboard.Here are a few tips to try to get the memory working:1. Insert just the 256mb memory module, no other modules and try starting the PC.2. If you have access to the BIOS setup screen, look for any options that allow you to change the speed of the memory from PC100 to PC133.3. If you purchased your PC before 1998, it may not be capable of reading memory as large as 256mb. Download SiSoft Sandra from our Downloads page (Main Page > Helpforce Downloads) to detirmine what the maximum size of memory is your PC can read.NB: You will need your origional memory and the windows desktop in order to run Sandra.4. Contact the vendor of your new memory to obtain a replacement memory module as the module you purchaced may be faulty.Hope this helps.If you require any further assistance, please feel free to reply to this message. Please include all previous emails so that we may more easily track your problem.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- The Best Android Phones(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/2010/07/03/the-best-android-phones.htm)

For my next mobile internet device, I am seriously considering replacing my Apple iPhone with an Android phone. The world of Android OS is much less restrictive than Apple, and...

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