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(hx) 02:42 AM CEST - Jul,27 2004
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- MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines -
The
new version, variously dubbed MyDoom.M or MyDoom.O, was first detected
early Monday morning and quickly went on a tear, flooding many mailboxes with
hundreds of messages. It has also slowed Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos to
a crawl, because once it infects a PC, the virus automatically performs Web
searches on those search engines. Among other antivirus firms,
McAfee explains (more
details) one way to remove the virus from an infected computer. You also
check
this article called "How to Avoid the Latest 'MyDoom' Worm".
- McAfee Names Worst Viruses -
Here are McAfee's top ten threats of the year so far: Exploit-MhtRedir.gen
(also known as Download.Ject or Scob), VBS/Psyme, Adware-Gator,
Adware-180Solutions, Adware-Cydoor, Adware-BetterInet, W32/Netsky.d@MM,
W32/Netsky.p@MM, W32/Netsky.q@MM,
W32/Mydoom.a@MM
- Junkware 101 - Overclocking HQ have published their
latest article which looks at removing spyware, ad-ware, Trojans and
hijackers from your PC.
- Newest "Suicide Trojan" Is Arnold's -
Sophos reports that the same folks who brought you the Osama Bin Laden
"suicide photos" have replaced that hoax with one that supposedly brings you
suicide pictures of California Governor and movie strongman Arnold
Schwartzenegger. The messages deliver the same Hackarmy Trojan as the Bin
Laden messages did.
- Biz: Microsoft's MSN May Not Beat Google - But even with this new
focus on searches, Danny Sullivan, the editor of Search Engine Watch, said
that
Microsoft will have a tough time catching up with Google. "To shift market
share, Google has to get bad and they have to get good," he said. "People will
not go to Microsoft, even if Microsoft is better than Google -- if Google is
good enough."
- Biz: Google searches for $135 per share -
Google has finally setup a price range of $108 to $135 for shares of its
company. With these high prices Google hopes to make $2.7 billion and $3.3
billion dollars. Eventually you can buy these shares on the NASDAQ exchange
under GOOG. Still $108 to $135 is a pretty high price range, and I it's surely
not meant for everyone.
- Off-topic: Smart jacket handles mobile calls and MP3s -
Semiconductor maker Infineon continued its adventures in wearable computing on
Monday by showing off
a
men's jacket that includes a built-in MP3 player and can link up with a
mobile phone over Bluetooth The article was developed in partnership with
Rosner, a German clothing manufacturer, and is called the mp3blue. It contains
an 'electronic module' which includes the MP3 player, 128MB of memory, a
rechargeable battery and a Bluetooth transmitter that lets the user connect to
their mobile.
- Off-topic: US nuclear clean-up carries major risks -
Over the last 50 years nine reactors at the 1500-square-kilometre site
have produced 67 tonnes of plutonium for the US nuclear weapons programme. In
2002 the US Department of Energy (DOE) embarked on a 30-year, $50 billion
clean-up, which includes emptying more than 190 million litres of liquid
radioactive waste from 177 underground tanks.
- AMD knocks up to 30% off Athlon 64 prices -
AMD adjusted its desktop processor pricing today, cutting what it charges
for Athlon 64 processor by up to 30.9 per cent while increasing the cost of
its Athlon 64 FX chip and some Athlon XP parts to compensate. Gone from AMD's
official price list are the XP 2200+ through to the 2700+. The list now shows
only the 2800+, 3000+ and 3200+.
- Toshiba, NEC To Release Details of New DVD Format To Rival Blu-ray -
The HD DVD format allows the recording of more than eight hours of
high-resolution movies on a single ROM disc, using a blue-laser diode and
advanced video compression technology, the statement said.
- Longhorn Gets HD-DVD Compatibility - Microsoft announced this
morning that Longhorn, the company's next-generation OS,
will include support for High Definition DVD (HD-DVD), the video-playback
format that's expected to succeed DVD.
- HP Unveils New IPaqs -
T-Mobile's product, the IPaq Pocket PC H6315, will cost existing T-Mobile
customers $600; a $100 rebate offer will bring the price down to $500 for
those who activate a new T-Mobile account. This model uses a Texas Instruments
OMAP 1510 processor, and has 64MB of SDRAM and 64MB of Flash read-only memory,
with 55MB available for file storage, plus an SD expansion slot. It has a
3.5-inch color screen, and comes with a built-in camera and basic
image-editing and organizing software. It also includes a snap-on keyboard for
composing messages.
- Seagate Ups Drive Warranties To 5 Years - Seagate have just
announced that they are going to standardize on
a five year warranty for all of their hard drives, including desktop and
notebook units.
- Creative and id Software make loud Doom noise - Creative
Technologyand id Software have today announced
an
agreement, enabling Creative to develop EAX Advanced HD 3D audio for
future licences. Additionally, an agreement has been reached allowing for
Creative's patented shadowing technique to be used in the Doom 3 engine.
- Tricks up their sleeves - ATI, nVidia and Far Cry 1.2 - In the last
few weeks, we've seen a host of sites running tests with the beta 1.2 Far Cry
patch, showing the gains to be had from running the Shader Model 3.0 path.
But, that's only part of the story, and today we'll be looking at the bigger
picture - Namely,
how the Far Cry 1.2 patch affects both nVidia and ATIs current hardware.
If you though the update was all about nVidia, you'd be very wrong...
- DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide Coming - id Software and HardOCP
will be publishing more benchmark results for Doom 3 throughout the
upcoming week. The results, which were accumulated based on 65 hours of
testing, will be revealed in their "DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide - "GF3, TI4600,
5800, 5900, 6800, 680GT, 6800U are all coming this week. As well as 8500,
9600XT, 9800Pro, X800Pro, X800XT."
- AOpen Aeolus 6800 Ultra DVD256 - While the 6800 GT is no-doubt a
better value buy, there's still
a lot to be said for the full-speed 6800, especially given one or two
games titles that are about to rear their awesome-looking heads.
- nVidia 6800LE review - The card is identical to the standard
6800 as far as looks and size are concerned, however, its slightly
under-powered. With a little help from Scott Wasson at The Tech Report, we
believe that the number of pixel pipelines has been reduced from 12 to 8
although we haven’t received any info from nVidia. The core has also been
dropped from 325 to 320 although memory size and speed remain identical to the
6800 - 128MB/350MHz (or 700MHz DDR). We asked for a price indication and were
told that the card should be about 30% less than the standard 6800 which would
put it at under US$200- a very sweet spot.
- LiteOn SOHW-832S review - Looking at the specs,
the 832S will write to DVD+R DL at 2.4-speed, DVD+R/-R at eight-speed.
DVD+RW/-RW at four-speed, CD-R at 40-speed and CD-RW at 24-speed. These are
pretty healthy specs, and the fast CD burning capability means that there is
little need to have more than one optical drive in your system again a big
advantage to the small form factor user
- Optimize XP - A Windows XP Optimization Guide v1.6.6 -
This guide is not designed to be used in combination with other Windows
tweaking guides or other Windows tweaking software. It is also not designed to
be used in parts.
- Catalyst 4.7 Driver comparison - Radeonthetop.com have posted
their Catalyst 4.7 Driver comparison.
- Windows XP SP2 Pre-RTM Build 2162 download - Last week (the 14th to
be precise), Microsoft released
Windows XP SP2 build 2162 to beta testers to collect last-minute feedback
before Windows XP's biggest update hits RTM sometime in the first half of
August. Please note that this is a beta product and does not reflect in any
way the final RTM product will be. Use caution if installing on production
systems.
- DirectX 9.0c Redistributable -
This download provides the DirectX 9.0c end-user multi-languaged
redistributable that developers can include with their product. The
redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may
use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK
EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.
- DVD Shrink 3.2.0.14 -
DVD Shrink is software
to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning
software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.
- FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20040725 Alpha -
FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV,
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies.
- FarCry Benchmarking Utility v1.2.1 -
The
HardwareOC FarCry Benchmark is an easy-to-use tool, that makes Far Cry
video card benchmarking fast and easy.
- dgVoodoo 1.30 -
DgVoodoo is the ONLY Glide wrapper available which allows you to play
Glide-based games on any DirectX 7 capable video card, and works for BOTH
Windows and DOS games. This allows you to play all-time classics such as Tomb
Raider, GTA, Red Baron 3D, UT or Carmaggeddon in Glide mode.
- VIAHyperion 4-in-1 v4.51Pro Beta -
This driver has not been officially "released". Test show better
performance than the Hyperion 4.51v version driver, on recent VIA chipsets
such as KT600, KT880, P4X400, PT800, PT880. This driver contains an IDE
performance driver and IDE filter driver. This driver does not pass the
Microsoft HCT and has no digital signature. Remeber it's only beta, try only
at your own risk.
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