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Sunday the 5th of October 2008

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Sunday the 5th of October 2008

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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Troj/Agent-HVF on 5 October 2008 05:55:18 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagenthvf.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-HVG on 5 October 2008 05:55:18 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagenthvg.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-HVH on 5 October 2008 05:55:18 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagenthvh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Geezo-F on 5 October 2008 05:55:18 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojgeezof.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Autorun-KZ on 5 October 2008 05:55:18 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32autorunkz.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DelpDldr-C on 4 October 2008 21:26:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdelpdldrc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Rbot-GXC on 4 October 2008 21:26:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojrbotgxc.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/PhpShell-Q on 4 October 2008 14:10:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojphpshellq.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Kolabc-D on 4 October 2008 14:10:32 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32kolabcd.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/FakeAV-J on 4 October 2008 04:54:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malfakeavj.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Venture Capitalism To the Rescue
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ls5RzSAGoVk/article.pl)
theodp writes "Al Gore, Bill Joy, and a Norwegian cutie — a TH!NK open electric car — grace the cover of the latest NYT Magazine, which asks: Can the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins reduce our dependence on oil, help stop global warming, and make a lot of money at the same time? While Kleiner Perkins — which funded Genentech, Netscape, Google and others — has number of other green-tech bets, a partner says its goal is 'to make a lot of money for our investors,' not to save the environment."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MJSHlhTR3_o/article.pl)
An anonymous reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the press to date. A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware manufacturers, and ban the sale of products from companies that don't comply. China is calling this an "obligatory accreditation system for IT security products." The plan is to go into effect next May, according to sources. "Products expected to be subject to the system are those equipped with secret coding, such as [a] contactless smart card system developed by Sony Corp., digital copiers, and computer servers. The Chinese government said it needs the source code to prevent computer viruses taking advantage of software vulnerabilities and to shut out hackers. However, this explanation is unlikely to satisfy concerns that disclosed information might be handed from the Chinese government to Chinese companies. There also are fears that Chinese intelligence services could exploit such confidential information by making it easier to break codes used in... digital devices."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/H6scyqQDBlI/article.pl)
MazzThePianoman writes "Steve Fossett left behind a secret vessel project called the Deep Flight Challenger. Fossett was funding the development of a winged submersible being designed by Hawkes Ocean Technologies in California. The intent was for the vehicle to be capable of travel to the very bottom of the ocean — the Mariana Trench, more than 11,000 meters beneath the surface. 'It would have dramatically, dramatically opened the oceans for exploration. It would have been a game changer,' said Graham Hawkes, the designer. Testing had been completed at Department of Defense facilities. Field testing was only four weeks away when Fossett's untimely death, a year ago, put the project on hold." Hawkes Ocean Technologies owns the design but the vehicle itself is owned by Fossett's estate.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- "Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VqUk4A169z0/article.pl)
secmartin writes "Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount's BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when they decide to shut down this service in a couple of years."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/chb0xquPqII/article.pl)
Anti-Globalism notes a large study out of the UK indicating that computer-aided detection can be as effective at spotting breast cancer as two experts reading the x-rays. Mammograms in Britain are routinely checked by two radiologists or technicians, which is thought to be better than a single review (in the US only a single radiologist reads each mammogram). In a randomized study of 31,000 women, researchers found that a single expert aided by a computer does as well as two pairs of eyes. CAD spotted nearly the same number of cancers, 198 out of 227, compared to 199 for the two readers. "In places like the United States, 'Where single reading is standard practice, computer-aided detection has the potential to improve cancer-detection rates to the level achieved by double reading,' the researchers said."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- "Netbooks" Move Up In Notebook Rankings
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/krk4gDWmR0Q/article.pl)
Ian Lamont writes "For the first time, a list of popular notebook reviews shows three 'netbooks' in the top 10. The netbooks use Intel's Atom processor. Notebookreview.com's editor says there has never been more than one netbook in its monthly ratings. The reason for the netbooks' sudden popularity no doubt relates to the price and basic functionality, but there's a catch. Despite calling Atom a 'high-performance' chip, Intel cautions people not to confuse netbooks with notebooks, as netbooks will be unable to take on video editing or other processor-intensive tasks. This leads to the question of how netbooks will be able to handle demanding Web apps — or whether Web apps will have to be slimmed down to accommodate millions of netbook owners."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xeftKmb0ayk/article.pl)
what about sends in a Groklaw alert warning that, by PJ's reading, Microsoft may be trying to take over ODF via a stacked SC 34 committee. The article lists the attendees at an SC 34 meeting in July and gives their affiliations, which the official meeting materials do not. (The attendees of the October 1 meeting, which generated a takeover proposal to OASIS, are not known in full.) "Why do I say Microsoft, when this is SC 34? Look at this... list of participants in the July meeting in Japan of the SC 34 committee. The committee membership is so tilted by Microsoft employees and such, if it were a boat, it would capsize... Of the 19 attendees, 8 are outright Microsoft employees or consultants, and 2 of them are Ecma TC45 members. So 10 out of 19 are directly controlled by Microsoft/Ecma... [I]f the takeover were to succeed, SC 34 would get to maintain ODF as well as Microsoft's competing parody 'standard,' OOXML. How totally smooth and shark-like. Under the guise of 'synchronized maintenance,' without which they claim SC 34 can't fulfill its responsibilities, they get control of everything." A related submission from David Gerard points out that BoycottNovell has leaked the ISO OOXML documents, which ISO has kept behind passwords.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tpFet35eMkw/article.pl)
ruphus13 writes "There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most paranoid. The 'alpha-alpha' version of ParanoidLinux is now out. But is this the best way to protect oneself? Couldn't it be easily circumvented? The article asks, 'Why is it necessary to put the applications and services designed to protect anonymity, to encrypt files, to make the user nameless and faceless, all together, in one distribution? Let's think in a truly paranoid manner. Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?' What should truly paranoid user do?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MwZNdMKkQuA/article.pl)
Preedit writes "The State of Maine is the latest organization to skip Windows Vista, which has been a near-disaster for Microsoft. An internal state document (dated September 15) uncovered by Infoweek reveals that Maine will not be upgrading its more than 11,000 personal computing devices from XP to Vista — ever. Instead, it's going to wait until Windows 7 ships in 2010 and hope for the best. The news is in line with a survey that shows only 4% of businesses in the UK have upgraded to Vista, the story notes. So much for that $300 million Seinfeld campaign." A commenter on the article makes the point that Maine's signing an enterprise software license with Microsoft means that Redmond doesn't really lose out on this deal; it simply allows the state to upgrade its equipment and software on its own time.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/F9KqoGMm-eo/article.pl)
Many readers reminded us of what no-one can have failed to hear: that the Congress passed and the President signed a $700B bailout bill in an attempt to avert the meltdown of the US economy. The bill allocates $700 billion to the Treasury Department for the purchase of so-called "toxic assets" that have been weighing down Wall Street balance sheets. This isn't particularly a tech story, though tech will be affected as will virtually all parts of the economy, and not just in the US. Among the $110B in so-called pork added to the bill to sway reluctant legislators are extensions of popular tax benefits for business R&D and alternative energy, relief for the growing pool of people subject to the alternative minimum tax, and a provision raising the FDIC's ceiling of guaranteed deposits to $250,000. Some limits were also imposed on executive compensation, though it's unclear whether they will be effective.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vIUbnnuu7r8/article.pl)
suraj.sun writes with news that the e-book reader market is getting more competitive. The Boy Genius Report got its hands on pictures of the Kindle 2, successor to Amazon's first e-book gadget. The new version is a bit bigger, with edges that are less awkward, and it has a revamped key layout. On the same day these pictures were found, Sony announced that a new model of its Reader would be getting a touchscreen, allowing users to "turn the page by swiping their finger across the screen" and "annotate text using a touchscreen keyboard." The advances for each gadget may help them regain market share against the iPhone, which, according to Forbes, has eclipsed both in popularity as a reading device. Hopefully the competition for sales and the work being done by the OLPC Project will help to drop prices as well.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/396NB827fxQ/article.pl)
mjasay writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its 'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft for doing this with its Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF), licensing it under the Microsoft Limited Permissive License (Ms-LPL), which restricts use of the code to Windows. Microsoft has changed the license for MEF to an OSI-approved license, the Microsoft Public License, but it continues to host a range of other projects under the Ms-LPL. If CodePlex wasn't an 'open source project hosting site,' this wouldn't be a problem. But when Microsoft invokes the 'open source' label, it has a duty to live up to associated expectations and ensure that the code it releases on CodePlex is actually open source. If it doesn't want to do this — if it doesn't want to abide by this most basic principle of open source — then call CodePlex something else and we'll all move on."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- CERN Launches Huge LHC Computing Grid
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/niPXiHAFOBE/article.pl)
RaaVi writes "Yesterday CERN launched the largest computing grid in the world, which is destined to analyze the data coming from world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The computing grid consists of more than 140 computer centers from around the world working together to handle the expected 10-15 petabytes of data the LHC will generate each year." The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid will initially handle data for up to 7,000 scientists around the world. Though the LHC itself is down for some lengthy repairs, an event called GridFest was held yesterday to commemorate the occasion. The LCG will run alongside the LHC@Home volunteer project.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ir7e66GuL_A/article.pl)
ruphus13 writes "Google's Android is starting to see more industry support. Motorola recently announced plans, despite hardships within the company, to hire 300 Android developers. Quoting: 'A quick search of Motorola's job openings suggests that, indeed, Android is set to become a permanent fixture at Motorola, which has long built Linux-based phones but hitherto used MontaVista's Mobilinux. The goal? Move from an internal development pool of 50 Android-savvy developers to 350. Motorola, recognizing that most developers won't have deep experience with Google Android, is looking for a somewhat general skillset ... Java and Google Android programming experience is listed as "highly desirable," but not required.'" T-Mobile has already made plans to use Android as well. Xconomy has a related interview with a member of the MIT team that won a $275,000 prize in the Android Developer Challenge by creating an application to automatically modify a phone's settings depending on its location, which they say "wouldn't even be possible on an iPhone." We've previously discussed the Challenge itself and some of the other winning apps.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Was the Yahoo-Google Deal a Ploy To Weaken Yahoo?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K8sIvDhsZtI/article.pl)
JagsLive writes with a link to a BetaNews story about a US Senator who is questioning whether the deal between Yahoo and Google was brokered with less than honorable intentions on Google's part. The advertising deal came under scrutiny from the Department of Justice recently for potential antitrust violations. The deal has now been delayed in order to allow investigators more time for evaluation. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that Yahoo will cut as much as 20% of its workforce after an internal memo from CEO Jerry Yang called for "discipline" and said the company was "getting fit" for the long term. For their part, Google has launched a site endorsing the deal and attempting to smooth the way for its approval by providing facts and positive reactions from experts.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

3. Latest Shareware from Planet-Shareware
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-- SpiceLogic Document 2 Text Converter
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/SpiceLogic_Document_2_Text_Converter.htm)
SpiceLogic Document 2 Text Converter is a Windows software that provides you an efficient way of converting your document files from various types to plain text The supported conversion types are MS Word doc MS Excel xls PDF HTML and RTF It allows you to convert a lots of files as BATCH PROCESSING by a single mouse click You dont need

-- Hide My Files
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/Hide_My_Files.htm)
Hide My Files is an easy to use folder lock used to hide files and folders from unauthorized use This file and folder security software provides an easy to use interface that allows you to choose the files by selecting the directories in which you choose to block users from viewing

-- NET Document 2 Text Converter DLL
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/.NET_Document_2_Text_Converter_DLL.htm)
NET Document 2 Text Converter DLL is a NET class library that provides you an efficient way of converting your document files from various types to plain text Recommended for Windows application only Not for ASPNET The supported conversion types are MS Word doc MS Excel xls PDF HTML and RTF You dont need MS Office installed to r

-- SPYWIPE
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/SPYWIPE.htm)
SPYWIPE is the fastest scanning techniques in the market It will protect your PC from the thousands of SpyWare and AdWare internet surfers come across In addition SPYWIPE have the ability to manage the infected lists so the user can take an action later without performing a new scan A set of scan options is proviided so the user can highly custo

-- SPYWAREWIPE
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/SPYWAREWIPE.htm)
SPYWAREWIPE is the fastest scanning techniques in the market It will protect your PC from the thousands of SpyWare and AdWare internet surfers come across In addition SPYWAREWIPE have the ability to manage the infected lists so the user can take an action later without performing a new scan A set of scan options is proviided so the user can high

-- Flowers Screensaver
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/Flowers_Screensaver.htm)
A Screen Saver with pictures of different flowers in nice colors It has a black background and the pictures of the flowers change every five seconds This Screensaver can be installed with one click A nice Screen Saver for spring dreams at the computer

-- ReplaceMagic ExcelOnly Standard
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/ReplaceMagic_ExcelOnly_Standard.htm)
Have you ever been in situation that you need to change text header footer comments OLE object links hyperlinks or even more in thousands of files and you had to open each file manually to make changes? With ReplaceMagic you can scan folders for files and by entering search and replace strings let application to do all changes automatically fo

-- Easter Bonus
(http://www.planet-shareware.com/Easter_Bonus.htm)
Love match-three games? Spring into action and play Easter Bonus Slick and addictive and really really cute; this is the latest game from the Xmas Bonus team Fluffy chicks chocolate eggs and the Easter bunnywe know you cant resist A calorie-free treat for players of all ages

4. FAQ of the day from Helpforce
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-- My computer keeps freezing up
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: My computer keeps freezing can you make some suggestions please

Answer: Check system resources, if < 60% stop extra programs running in the background.Look for memtest on the internet and check your ram modules for errors.Clean out temp files, caches and recycle bin.Make sure all cards are securely in their sockets.Makes sure fans are running on Power supply and the cpu.What Os, CPU, Ram amount, HDD space, Age of machine do you have? Reply Posted on 22/11/2002 I´d suggest two things more:1.- Run Scandisk (complete).2.- Defragment you HDD.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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-- Am I stealing someone else's IP address by resetting my router?

I'm using DSL and I have a router, and I have a static IP. So one
day I restarted my router manually by pressing a button on the back.
Now my IP address has changed. I told my friend I had done this and he
says I've made a huge mistake. He says I'm essentially stealing another
person's IP address on the ISP. Is it true that I am committing a crime
by changing my IP address by simply restarting my router?

No, you're not.
What your friend fails to realize is something very fundamental to
how IP addresses work.
You don't take an IP address; an IP address is
given to you.

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