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(hx) 12:46 AM CEST - Jul,20 2004
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- 1st pocket PC worm asks if you want to infect - Duts is a 1520
bytes long program, hand written in assembly for the ARM processor. When an
infected file is executed
the virus
asks for permission to infect: "WinCE4.Dust by Ratter/29A Dear User, am I
allowed to spread?". When granted the permission, Duts attempts to infect all
EXE files in the current directory. Duts only infects files that are bigger
than 4096 bytes and have not been infected yet. As an infection marker the
virus writes the string 'atar' to the Windows Version field of the EXE header.
- Exposing click fraud - Internet marketers facing higher advertising
fees on search networks are becoming increasingly concerned about a form of
online fraud that was thought to have been contained years ago. In one recent
example of the problem, law enforcement officials say a California man created
a software program that he claimed could let spammers bilk Google out of
millions of dollars in fraudulent clicks. Authorities said he
was
arrested while trying to blackmail Google for $150,000 to hand over the
program. He was indicted by a California jury in June.
- "Deceptive Duo" Hacker Charged - A 20-year-old Northern California
man suspected as being one half of the high-profile "Deceptive Duo" hacking
team is scheduled
to appear in court on Monday to face charges of breaking into government
computers and defacing government Web sites. Robert Lyttle, who allegedly
teamed up with 22-year-old Benjamin Stark and hacked into computer systems run
by the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautic and Space
Administration (NASA), faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years if he is
found guilty, authorities announced.
- Government spy HQ seeks IT experts - UK spy chiefs
are looking to
recruit skilled IT professionals in the ongoing battle against terrorism
and other threats.Applicants with IT and networking skills can expect a move
to the spy base General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to be worth as much
as L43,000.
- Microsoft pays Lindows.com $20M to end trademark fight -
Lindows.com said
Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle a trademark dispute between the
companies, according to a Monday regulatory filing. Under the settlement,
Microsoft will buy the rights to the Lindows.com domain name along with other
related sites.
- MACROMEDIA Announces FlashPaper 2 - Macromedia has announced the
release of
Macromedia FlashPaper 2, a simple way to convert printable files into
universally sharable electronic documents. FlashPaper 2 enables any
application to create documents that can be instantly viewed within any web
browser.
- Macromedia looking to compete with Sun in the mobile phone game market
- Macromedia began marketing
its embedded Flash product in phones last month when it launched Flash
Lite 1.1 in at the end of June. According to company senior director of mobile
and devices, Anup Murarka, Flash is more suitable than Java for a variety of
display sizes and resolutions, for companies with smaller memory requirements,
shorter development schedules, the need for lower costs and cross-platform
compatibility.
- Sneak preview of next-gen Korean 2 megapixel Windows CE smartphone -
WindowsForDevices has received exclusive advance information on
a new dual mode Smartphone (image)
to be introduced initially in the Korean market this fall. The prototype
device, codenamed "Flint," features dual network CDMA/WiFi support with a
built-in 802.11b module, and full-motion video from its integrated 2 megapixel
camera. Flint runs Windows CE 4.2 on a 500MHz Samsung S3C2440 processor with
256MB of Flash and 64MB of SDRAM. The 2.5 inch transflective LCD boasts 256K
colors with QVGA resolution.
- Apple Rolls Out Cheaper iPods -
Apple introduced today lower-priced versions of its iPod digital music
player with longer battery life, positioning itself against rivals trying to
use lower prices to undercut iPod sales. Apple said the
new model iPod has up to
12 hours of battery life, compared with eight hours in previous models.
Poor battery performance in some iPods has drawn criticism. The 20-gigabyte
model, which can hold about 5,000 songs, has a list price of $299, lower than
the previous price of $399 for a 20-gigabyte iPod. The 40-gigabyte model costs
$399.
- AMD pops out two notebook chips - AMD released
two notebook chips Sunday, building on a recent surge of sales of
processors for portables. The Athlon 64 3400+ is largely aimed at
performance users. It runs at 2.2GHz and comes with 1MB of cache. Gamer-PC
maker Alienware will insert the chip in a notebook later in the month.
- ATI Preps to Offset NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 GT - A report over
China-based web-site
GZeasy.com claims that the new graphics chip from ATI
will be called RADEON X800 GT and will be a down-clocked RADEON X800 XT
graphics processor with 16 rendering pipelines. The so-called RADEON X800 GT
visual processing unit will function at 425MHz and will carry 256MB of GDDR3
memory clocked at 900MHz onboard. Initially the new RADEON X800 product will
be offered for systems with AGP 8x port.
- Frontier Labs L1 20GB MP3 Player / Jukebox - While the
L1 may not
be an iPod-killer in the eyes of many, it is definitely worthy of your
consideration. The 20GB L1 is in the same price range (~$300) as the 15GB iPod
and $100 cheaper than the 20GB iPod.
- Looking ahead to Intel's 925XE chipset and FSB1066 - While Corsair,
Crucial and Samsung are already starting to deliver DDR2-667, Intel is also
getting ready to ship the 925XE this quarter, which offers 266 MHz FSB and
will be the basis for the Pentium 4 720 with 3.73 GHz. TGH already took a look
at what benefits the FSB clock increase will bring. Also,
TGH benchmarked with 280 MHz FSB and DDR2-730.
- ForceWare 62.01 Performance Comparison - Dark-Tweaker has posted
some benchies for Nvidia's latest Leaked ForceWare 62.01 Drivers plus a
performance comparison against ForceWare 56.72 , 61.32 , 61.40 , 61.72 and
ForceWare 61.80.
- DOOM 3 Theme Song - Tweaker's blog/music site
has the full version
of the DOOM 3 Theme song.for your listening pleasure.
- AnyDVD 3.9.2.1 -
AnyDVD
is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background.
This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the
Windows operating system as well.
- FFDShow 2004-07-18 -
FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter based on the original DirectShow
filter from XviD for decompressing movies with a rich set of video
postprocessing filters. For video decompression it uses the libavcodec from
the ffmpeg project and to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies it uses
the postprocessing code from mplayer. FFDShow can also be used as a separate
postprocessing filter for other decoders.
- dgVoodoo v1.23 -
dgVoodoo is a Glide Wrapper that uses Direct3D 7 to implement the Glide2.4
API. dgVoodoo provides support to run Windows-based and DOS-based applications
that use Glide. DOS applications can be wrapped without VESA emulation under
Windows XP too.
- ATI Radeon BIOS Tuner v1.3 - Eugeny Azarov has released his
ATI
Radeon BIOS Tuner (RaBiT) which allows to control Memory Timings
(RAS-to-CAS, tRP, RAS#, CAS#, tRbs), and more.
- [!] Official nForce WHQL Drivers v4.27 - Version 4.27 of NVIDIA's
nForce drivers (WinXP
~ Win2K ~
Win98/ME) have been officially released (thanks BloodUK)
- BIOS Updates - A lot of new motherboard BIOS updates from
last week can be found at
PCTuning.CZ (Czech website with many download links).
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