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Wednesday the 10th of March 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Wednesday the 10th of March 2010

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-MRH on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojagentmrh.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Banker-EWO on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojbankerewo.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DwnLdr-ICA on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldrica.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AZL on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavazl.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/FakeAV-AZM on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojfakeavazm.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Iframe-EE on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojiframeee.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Lolydb-Gen on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojlolydbgen.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/SWFLdr-O on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojswfldro.html?_log_from=rss
W32/Taterf-F on 10 March 2010 11:37:17 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32taterff.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-OC on 10 March 2010 06:16:48 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpkoc.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
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-- Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/_OYqiBleMn4/Professors-Banning-Laptops-In-the-Lecture-Hall)
Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia, among many others, compelling students to take notes the way their parents did: on paper. A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen, but during the past decade it has evolved into a powerful distraction as wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube videos, sports scores, even online gaming. Even when used as glorified typewriters, laptops can turn students into witless stenographers, typing a lecture verbatim without listening or understanding. 'The breaking point for me was when I asked a student to comment on an issue, and he said, "Wait a minute, I want to open my computer,"' says David Goldfrank, a Georgetown history professor. 'And I told him, "I don't want to know what's in your computer. I want to know what's in your head."' Some students don't agree with the ban. A student wrote in the University of Denver's newspaper: 'The fact that some students misuse technology is no reason to ban it. After all, how many professors ban pens and notebooks after noticing students doodling in the margins?'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vR078cnRjzw/emRock-Band-3em-Officially-Announced-For-Holiday-2010)
An anonymous reader writes "Philippe Dauman, Viacom CEO and President, announced today that Harmonix is currently working on the next Rock Band game, Rock Band 3, due for release Holiday 2010. 'The company is pursuing the game in spite of an industry-weakening decline in the once-booming genre of peripheral-equipped music games. Although the franchise has generated over $1 billion to date, the category in general saw sales contract by as much as half throughout 2009. MTV Games parent Viacom also saw Rock Band declines drag on its balance sheet in its last fiscal quarter, and expressed a need to refocus away from pricey peripherals in favor of software. It also said that due to royalties it would need to be more "selective" about track listings, and that it needs more support from the music industry in that department.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uemFIh840B4/Linux-Takes-Over-E-Voting-In-Australian-State)
daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year. But it appears to be a little confused: the documentation states it will be using the '2.6 kernel/Gentoo release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' Huh?"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/itqx6cXLeM8/Puzzle-In-xkcd-Book-Finally-Cracked)
An anonymous reader writes "After a little over five months of pondering, xkcd fans have cracked a puzzle hidden inside Randall Munroe's recent book xkcd: volume 0. Here is the start of the thread on the xkcd forums; and here is the post revealing the final message (a latitude and longitude plus a date and time)."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fR6b9LhCjMY/The-Value-of-BASIC-As-a-First-Programming-Language)
Mirk writes "Computer-science legend Edsger W. Dijkstra famously wrote: 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.' The Reinvigorated Programmer argues that the world is full of excellent programmers who cut their teeth on BASIC, and suggests it could even be because they started out with BASIC."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yAYJ2bfiyaQ/US-Considers-Some-Free-Wireless-Broadband-Service)
gollum123 writes "US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later. One way of making broadband more affordable is to 'consider use of spectrum for a free or a very low-cost wireless broadband service,' the FCC said in a statement." Nobody has more than a couple of paragraphs on this story. None of the press coverage mentions the obvious likelihood that any such free network would be heavily filtered, censored, and monitored.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/2rvHlR3Sjn0/US-Gamers-Spend-38-Billion-On-MMOs-Yearly)
eldavojohn writes "A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America, the report estimated that payments for boxed content and client downloads amounted to a measly $400 million, while the subscriptions came to $2.38 billion. Hopefully that will fund some developer budgets for bigger and better MMOs yet to come. The study also found that roughly a quarter of the US population plays some form of MMO. Surely MMOs are shaping up to be a juicy industry, and a market that can satisfy people of all walks of life."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mv0w1kGP_uI/The-Worlds-First-Commercially-Available-Jetpack)
ElectricSteve writes "It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us — until now. At $86,000, the Martin Aircraft jetpack costs about as much as a high-end car, achieves a 30-minute flight time, and is fueled by regular gasoline. A 10% deposit buys you a production slot for 12 months hence." Here's a video of some indoor test flights. This isn't Buck Rogers's jetpack — it's about 5 by 5 feet and weighs more than the average human. You won't be able to commute with it (the FAA has not certified this class of device) so it's recreational only for now.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Google's Computing Power Refines Translation
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Rr7biLWCDNk/Googles-Computing-Power-Refines-Translation)
gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the company's few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond search. "...Google's quick rise to the top echelons of the translation business is a reminder of what can happen when Google unleashes its brute-force computing power on complex problems. The network of data centers that it built for Web searches may now be, when lashed together, the world's largest computer. Google is using that machine to push the limits on translation technology. Last month, for example, it said it was working to combine its translation tool with image analysis, allowing a person to, say, take a cellphone photo of a menu in German and get an instant English translation. ...in the mid-1990s, researchers began favoring a so-called statistical approach. They found that if they fed the computer thousands or millions of passages and their human-generated translations, it could learn to make accurate guesses about how to translate new texts. It turns out that this technique, which requires huge amounts of data and lots of computing horsepower, is right up Google's alley. ...Google's service is good enough to convey the essence of a news article, and it has become a quick source for translations for millions of people."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VxOcJjVNZeY/Jeff-Jaffe-Named-CEO-of-W3C)
blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal. A reading of Jaffe's blog while at Novell tends to paint him as a software patent supporter, Microsoft apologist, and no fan of the FSF. This strongly worded page at Boycott Novell features copious links to support the above characterization.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-rqh7H43Og4/NewEgg-Confirms-Shipping-Fake-Core-i7s)
adeelarshad82 writes "After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot. The retailer said that it has already contacted affected customers and would continue to reach out and replace the counterfeit parts. We discussed the fake Core i7s over the weekend."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/s_PuNuQ4YA8/Dot-Com-Craze-Peaked-10-Years-Ago-This-Week)
netbuzz writes "When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. A year later it was below 2000. Gone were such poster children of the era as Pets.com, Kozmo, and — who could forget? — Whoopi Goldberg's Flooz. Here's a look back."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BuY1LsJ_oRQ/Best-Resource-For-Identifying-Legit-Applications)
bjb writes "While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.' Never having heard of it, I Googled it with 'malware' and other key words, but nothing turned up, though my suspicion remained (and was somewhat confirmed by WOT.) So my question is, where can you go to find out if something is legitimate? Because the person I'm helping is on a dial-up connection, downloading malware detection applications (and updates) is too heavy consider. And I don't maintain a USB stick with such apps, since I don't do this kind of thing very often. Where can you quickly find information?"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VVozIMwpik8/Cisco-Introduces-a-322-Tbitsec-Router)
CWmike writes "Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate,' Cisco's John Chambers said while announcing the product. At full scale, the CRS-3 has a capacity of 322Tbit/sec., roughly three times that of the CRS-1, introduced in 2004. It also has more than 12 times the capacity of its nearest competitor, Chambers said. The CRS-3 will help the Internet evolve from a messaging to an entertainment and media platform, with video emerging as the 'killer app,' Chambers said. Using a CRS-3, every person in China, which has a population just over 1.3 billion, could participate in a video phone call at the same time. (Or you could pump nearly one Library of Congress per second through the device, or give everyone in San Fransisco a 1Gbps internet connection.) AT&T said it has been using the CRS-3 to test 100Gbit/sec. data links in tests on a commercial fiber route in Florida and Louisiana."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/5iqrjF_eF8U/Doctors-Skirt-FDA-To-Heal-Patients-With-Stem-Cells)
kkleiner writes "For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans. Now, in an exciting development, Regenerative Sciences Inc. in Colorado has found a way to skirt the FDA and provide these same stem cell treatments to humans. The results have been stunning, allowing many patients to walk or run who have not been able to do so for years. There's no surgery required, just a needle to extract and then re-inject the cells where they are needed. There has always been a lot of hype around stem cells, but this is the real deal. Real humans are getting real treatment that works, and we should all hope that more companies will begin offering this procedure in other states soon."

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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-- My Lexmark printer's output is pale
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: I have a lexmark z82. When printing from the pc the color is pale.I purchased new cartriges.cleaned aligned everything and the color still pale

Answer: I have found that the Lexmark does print in a "different" shade from my HP printer. You may try going into the properties and choosing a higher quality print mode. In "Draft" it will print very pale...in "Normal" it will print better...In "Fine", it will print very good, but also very slow...Please note that the terms Draft, Normal, and Fine are used by my HP printer...The Lexmark will have similar, but possibly different terms for the different printing modes.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
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