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(hx) 03:10 AM CEST - May,10 2002
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- Xbox 'Emulator' Front For Online Money-Making Scam - A new fraud
by Internet scam artists attempts to tap into video game aficionados' burning desire to
play Microsoft Xbox games on their personal computers. An "Xbox
emulator" currently being offered for free on the Web is actually a Trojan horse
designed to covertly rack up money for its authors using pay-for-click and other schemes,
malicious code experts said. Instead of enabling users to run popular Xbox games
such as "Halo" on their PCs, executing the fake emulator's installation program,
"EMU_xbox.exe", merely produces error messages.
- GSM Phone Cloning Possible - IBM has created a safeguard against a
new technique to exploit an old vulnerability in some cellular telephones, but the
best protection, Big Blue says, is for consumers to keep track of their phones.
In the unlikely event that such a scenario plays out, unauthorized calls and transactions
- such as banking and stock trades - could be made on certain GSM (global system for
mobile communications) phones. The hole in subscriber identification module (SIM)
cards used in GSM phones was discovered several years ago, but a new method to extract key
data from the cards is far less involved, said Charles Golvin, a senior analyst with
Forrester Research.
- Kill the MSN Messenger - Microsoft has issued a 'critical'
security update after the discovery of a buffer overflow vulnerability which may allow
an attacker to execute malicious code against the majority of MSN Messenger users.
- Pirate bots seek ports to hide plunder - Internet Security
Systems, which monitors networks around the world from seven points of presence, including
a "war room" in Atlanta, has seen an increase in IRC
traffic in the last month, according to Grant Slender, principal ISS consultant for
Australasia. The traffic surge relates to an increase in the use of IRC bots by the
file-sharing community to swap files and pirated software across the Internet.
- Big Blue's grid guns for gamers - IBM launched the backbone for
what may well be the
next-generation internet late last year, setting up a grid computing data centre in
Oxford. Grid computing works on the same principle as distributed computing programs like
SETI@home, except that enormously powerful data centres are linked up around the globe
instead of desktop machines.
- Waterproof Keyboard - This waterproof accessory is far superior
to those awkward keyboard covers that slow you down and cause you to make errors. Get your
work done quickly without frustrating typing errors with this completely sealed computer
keyboard! Use the Waterproof
Flexible Keyboard in your kitchen, and surf for recipes on the Internet without
worrying about flour on your fingertips or work tops.
- Video Cards Roundup - Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4
Ti 4400 / Gainward Ultra 650/XP GeForce 4 / eVGA
e-GeForce4 Ti4600 / ASUS
V8440/DVI GeForce 4 Ti4400 / Gainward
GeForce 4 PowerPack GS Ultra / VisionTek
Xtasy Ti4400 / Sapphire
ATi Radeon 8500LE / Hercules 3D Prophet 8500 / Sapphire 8500le
/ Professionally
Modified Cases by Northwood Graphics / ATi All-In-Wonder
Radeon 8500 128MB
- Miscelanous HW Roundup -Intel Pentium
4/2533 vs. Athlon XP 2100+ / Pentium
4-2.53 CPU / Intel 2.4 GHz & 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 CPUs / SOYO
KT333 Dragon Ultra / ASUS P4T533
/ AOpen AK77-333 / ABIT IT7 MAX / Zalman
CNPS-5100 cooler / Thermaltake
Hardcano 2 & 5 HDD coolers /AGP Airlift Cooler
/ Card
Cooler Stealth Cooler / MAGNUM
390 Water Set / Arkua 6149 Cooler / Samsung SW232
32-10-40 CDRW / Plextor PlexCombo PX-320A 20/10/40-12A CD-RW/DVD-ROM / Logitech MouseMan Dual Optical
- How to UNcap your modem - Step by Step with Pictures!
- Windows XP Shutdown Hack - Another small news item, but
well worth it. A member in our forums found a little hack, actually a registry edit that
is supposed to speed up the Windows XP shutdown command by altering the
WaitToKillServiceTimeout key. I tried it and it certainly shows some improvement - Visit the link to find out how
to do it...
- How to Optimize Game Performance - This article tells you how
to configure Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and your computer for optimal game
performance.
- AbiWord 1.0.1 - AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoftr Word.
It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.
- WinMX 3 Beta 10 - WinMX is a free
file-sharing program like no other. It allows you to simultaneously connect through the
decentralized WinMX Peer Networking Protocol AND to many networks based on the OpenNap and
Napster protocols.
- CDex 1.50 Beta 3 - CDex
is a freeware application, which is able to extract audio tracks from a CD-ROM digitally,
and save those files to disk as either regular WAV file or MP3 files.
- Zoom Player 2.60 Beta 3 - Zoom Player is
a robust Media and DVD Front-End Player. It was designed to be simple at first glance
while being remarkably dynamic and flexible when used to its full potential.
- CubicEye - CubicEye
Tools allow webmasters and software developers to organize their content, functions,
and interfaces into single or multiple cubes, taking advantage of not only the surfaces of
the cubes, but the space inside as well, for the display and manipulation of both content
and data.
- RefreshLock 2.01 - Fed up of getting 60Hz or 75Hz in your
favourite OpenGL/Direct3D/DirectX games (e.g. Quake 1/2/3, Half-Life, Unreal, or Deus Ex)
instead of the 120Hz your display adapter & monitor are capable of? Yes? Then download this FREE
program, and enjoy higher display frequencies without the hassle of installing special
drivers.
- TVTool 6.0e Beta - The tool helps with the TV ouput of Nvidia graphic cards. The main problem
is the black borders around the picture on the TV screen.
- S3/VIA Drivers - Download: ProSavage Win2K/XP Drivers v13.93.32 with Ishld / ProSavageDDR Win2K/XP Drivers v13.93.34 NoIshld / ProSavageDDR Win2K/XP Drivers v13.93.34 Util / Twister/TwisterK Win2K/XP Drivers v13.93.35 w/Hotkey / Twister/TwisterK Win2K/XP Drivers v13.93.35 NoHotkey / SavageIX WinXP Drivers v7.90.36 AGP / SavageIX WinXP Drivers v7.90.36 PCI.
- Official ATI RADEON Drivers - ATi has officially released
an official driver set for their RADEON series of video cards: ATi
RADEON WinXP v6.13.10.6071 / ATi
RADEON Win2k v5.13.01.6071 / ATi
RADEON Win98/ME v4.13.9031 / ATi
RADEON WinNT4 v4.3.4013.
- OEM Intellipoint Software 4.01 - Microsoft has released some new OEM drivers for their Intellipoint series of mouses.
- nForce Driver Package 1.03 (Certified Beta) - Download the package #1
(audio drivers not included), download package
#2 (audio drivers for W9x/ME & W2K/XP)
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