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Friday the 17th of October 2008

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Friday the 17th 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
6. Internet Advice

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1. Latest Virus Alerts From Sophos
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JS/Dload-DZ on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/jsdloaddz.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-HXZ on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagenthxz.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DwnLdr-HJI on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldrhji.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeVir-GM on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakevirgm.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/IFrame-BH on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojiframebh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Keygen-CN on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojkeygencn.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Zlob-APJ on 17 October 2008 09:44:20 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojzlobapj.html?_log_from=rss
JS/Psyme-KH on 17 October 2008 06:28:35 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/jspsymekh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-HXY on 17 October 2008 06:28:35 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagenthxy.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Agent-HXW on 17 October 2008 03:47:42 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagenthxw.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HDslR9HzVXA/article.pl)
tjstork writes "Tesla Motors, the darling of technorati for its high performance electric car, may be about to go belly up. Venture capital is cut off, layoffs are under way, and construction plans are being stretched out. Elon Musk has ousted the CEO and taken the reins, blaming the global credit crunch."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/JjHzf-F-lgE/article.pl)
narramissic writes "A two-year undercover FBI sting operation targeting online 'carder' forums hosted on the DarkMarket.ws Web site has netted 56 arrests and prevented about $70 million in fraud losses, the FBI said Thursday. DarkMarket.ws was widely used by online scammers to buy and sell stolen credit card numbers, other financial information, and even the devices used to make fake banking cards. Before it was shut down earlier this month, the Web site had registered more than 2,500 members. Although Dark Market was thought to have been administered by a criminal going by the name Master Splyntr, German Public Radio reported on Monday that the FBI had been running a sting operation on the site since late 2006, and that Master Splyntr was actually an FBI agent named J. Keith Mularski." Of course, they say it in German; non-German speakers may want to consult the Babelfish.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MQEWZl-ynHg/article.pl)
sparky1240 writes "While Americans are currently fighting the net-neutrality wars, spare a thought for the poor Australians — The Australian government wants to implement a nation-wide 'filtering' scheme to keep everyone safe from the nasties on the internet, with no way of opting out: 'Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material. ... According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Flower Robots For Your Home
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zSV90-vIEQU/article.pl)
Roland Piquepaille writes "Flower robots are not new, and some have already been developed in the US. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-qgWKFjLz0g/article.pl)
longacre writes "While some giggles were floating around about the irony of a Microsoft product (Photosynth) finding itself on the same top 10 products list as a toilet, the true stars of last night's annual Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards were innovations of far more consequence. MIT professor Amy B. Smith won the marquis Leadership Award for her work on building simple, low-cost technology to help developing countries. Joining Smith from the appropriate technology field were a group of CalTech students who created all-terrain wheelchairs for the disabled, and a Procter & Gamble exec who developed a water purifying powder for the third world. Aptera Vehicles founders Steve Ambro and Chris Anthony made the cut for their 300mpg Typ-1e, which is expected to hit showrooms by the end of this year. Other winners ranged from the Mars Phoenix Lander team, to the developers of a low-cost cancer test, to the creators of Spore."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Dead Space Wants To Scare You
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7SYQ3pOWCxw/article.pl)
Kotaku recently ran a story questioning whether the survival-horror genre still exists, and how Dead Space may or may not fit into it. With reviews for the game starting to come in, Ars Technica reports that the game is, indeed, both scary and good. Gamespy wrote up a Dead Space survival guide, and Gamasutra has a lengthy interview with the game's senior producer. In the production of the game, the developers studied things like car wrecks and war scenes to increase the level of realism. They also want the game's sounds to terrify players, including appropriately timed silence. The launch trailer is also available, though it does contain spoilers.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RdMLohGqiuk/article.pl)
sash writes "From the fresh press release: 'Investigations at CERN following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel have confirmed that cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's magnets. This resulted in mechanical damage and release of helium from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel. Proper safety procedures were in force, the safety systems performed as expected, and no one was put at risk. Sufficient spare components are in hand to ensure that the LHC is able to restart in 2009, and measures to prevent a similar incident in the future are being put in place.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Web Singletons?
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/y2w08MA0iaY/article.pl)
tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EXJktbW8Nc4/article.pl)
timdogg writes "Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/a7NtQ0DJMyo/article.pl)
twitter writes "Want to run Enlightenment on your cell phone? The Rasterman's recent efforts bring E17 to Open Moko FreeRunner and Treo 650: 'According to the Rasterman, when used with his updated illume stack and new Elementary widget set, E17 can now run in just 32MB of RAM, on an ARM9 processor clocked at 317MHz. To prove it, he is distributing a Linux kernel and E17/Illume/Elementary stack for Palm's Treo650. The stack can be launched from PalmOS without touching the device's flash storage, he says.' While Microsoft fumbles with limited 'instant on,' GNU/Linux rules the embedded world and that's the only thing going in the IT market right now."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Schneier Calls Quantum Cryptography Impressive But Pointless
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MPCdVDEIu1s/article.pl)
KindMind writes "Bruce Schneier writes in Wired that quantum cryptography, while an awesome technology, is actually pointless (that is, of no commercial value). His point is that the science of cryptography is not the weak point, but the other links in the chain (like people, etc.) are where it breaks down."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8mos0UMtjeI/article.pl)
CWmike writes "A prolonged, ongoing Gmail outage has some Google Apps administrators pulling their hair out as their end users, including high-ranking executives, complain loudly while they wait for service to be restored. At about 5 p.m. US Eastern on Wednesday, Google announced that the company was aware of the problem preventing Gmail users from logging into their accounts and that it expected to fix it by 9 p.m. on Thursday. Google offered no explanation of the problem or why it would take it so long to solve the problem, a '502' error when trying to access Gmail. Google said the bug is affecting 'a small number of users,' but that is little comfort for Google Apps administrators. Admin Bill W. posted a desperate message on the forum Thursday morning, saying his company's CEO is steaming about being locked out of his e-mail account since around 4 p.m. on Wednesday. It's not the first Gmail outage. So, will this one prompt calls for a service-level agreement for paying customers? And a more immediate question: Why no Gears for offline Gmail access at very least, Google?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Mars Lander Instrument Waving In the Martian Wind
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/02rAGInKt9E/article.pl)
Matt_dk writes "This series of images show Phoenix's telltale instrument waving in the Martian wind. Documenting the telltale's movement helps mission scientists and engineers determine what the wind is like on Mars. On the day these images were taken, one of the images seemed to be 'out-of-phase' with other images, possibly indicating a dust devil occurrence."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Publishing a Commercial iPhone Game, Start To Finish
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8RiHOCjUcns/article.pl)
Niklas Wahrman writes with this "motivational story on how a student and part-time developer was able to take an idea and turn it into an Android project and then port to iPhone for commercial release in less than a year. In the article, he focuses on how to get a game done — a problem many independent developers face. During the development of the game, Asterope, he took a lot of screenshots from many of the development stages that show how the game gradually came to life."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows
(http://rss.slashdot.org:80/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NG4SBVvSy8k/article.pl)
Barence writes "In what might be a glimpse of things to come in Windows 7, Microsoft is asking customers whether they would be interested in a new 'Instant-on' version of Windows. 'We would like your feedback on a new concept,' the Microsoft survey states. 'The Instant On experience is different from "Full Windows" because it limits what activities you can do and what applications you can have access to.' Sounds interesting but hardly new: Asus and Dell have produced laptops that provide swift access to apps and data using Linux subsystems."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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-- Help, when I turned my PC on last night, it would not boot
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: When I turned my PC on last night, it would not boot. It's an HP Pavilion xt936, 128 meg ram, plenty hd space available on a 40 gig drive. Only modifications have been adding a sound blaster live several months ago and adding a diamond viper about the same time. Forgot that I did change to an optical mouse, too. Machine has functioned well until last night. I got no POST, just a blank monitor.Removed mouse, put original equipment mouse back on. Unplugged all peripherals, such as scanner and USB stuff. I reseated hd cable, changed out the monitor to a working sony, tried again with no success. Checked all cards, found all to be properly seated. Removed sound blaster. Tried again. Still have a blank screen, with no boot. Seems to be getting power to the keyboard, since the keyboard light is working. Any ideas which way to go now? Thanks so very much!

Answer: I had a similar problem a few months ago. I firstly made sure that all cables where in place properly (ie none had come out) especially the power cable to the motherboard. Secondly, look in the manual for your motherboard jumper settings and try resetting the BIOS memory - it could be that this has been changed some way and this is causing a problem.Thirdly, try contacting the motherboard manufacturer or the BIOS manufacturer (try http://www.helpforce.com/main/elinks.html for links to them.) It seems to me that either the motherboard, BIOS or possibly RAM (but ram is least likely to me) is malfunctioning. Have you recently moved the computer, is it near a raditor or in a damp enviroment? Reply Posted on 31/8/2002 A common cause to this kind of thing is an earth loop on the motherboard, this would cause the motherboard (+keyboard) to get power but not start the boot sequence, i would try taking the computer apart, take the motherboard out of the case, and part by part puting it back in making sure that u have plastic washers between the motherboard and the case where the screws attach the two together!!! if it was me i would set the computer up outside the metal case perhaps on a table and try it like that! from experience i would be surprised if this doesnt work!!!

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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6. Internet Advice
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-- Site of the Day: Map of the Credit Crisis(http://netforbeginners.about.com/b/a/257718.htm)

Starting at Wall Street, then rippling across the planet, the worldwide credit crisis is affecting everyone. This Flash movie will summarize the timeline and the critical events that have led...

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