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 Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 03:02 AM CEST - Jun,25 2004
  • Russian IIS Hacks / worm spreading through patched servers?? - Bink.nu's reader pointed out to an IIS discussion group (microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.security) where several IIS administrators discovered some strange .dll files on their web servers in the past 24 hours. According to the discussion on that list, they are all 1kb .dll files. They were deposited in the winntsystem32inetsrv directory with names like iis7xy.dll where x is a random number that appears to be between 1-3 and y is a random character or number.
  • Web Graphics Exploit Marching Across Internet  - When visitors to a few particular Web sites-including popular auction, shopping and price-comparison sites-request pages that include the malicious graphics, the code automatically downloads itself onto their machines. Once installed, the code unpacks itself and loads a keystroke logger on the PC. NetSec officials said the attack seems to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The code then forces the machine to contact two IP addresses-one in Russia and one in the United States. The Russian site is hosted on a broadband connection and is part of a network known for spamming and other transgressions.
  • Anti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress - A U.S. congressional committee on Thursday approved a bill designed to crack down on deceptive "spyware" that hides in users' computers and secretly monitors their activities. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 45-4 for a bill that would require software makers to notify people before loading new programs on their machines that collects information about them. Spyware can sap computing power, crash machines and bury users under a blizzard of unwanted ads. It can capture passwords, credit-card numbers and other sensitive data.
  • AOL Worker Arrested on Spam Charges - An employee of America Online was arrested this week for stealing AOL user screen names and selling them to an unsolicited commercial e-mail operation, AOL says in a statement. AOL says it discovered the screen name thefts and passed the information on to federal law enforcement agencies, leading to the arrest. AOL has fired the employee, it says in the statement, and is committed to his full prosecution. U.S. media reports say that the number of screen names stolen totaled 92 million, and that the e-mail spammer had also been arrested. The AOL employee received over $100,000 for the list of names, media reports say.
  • Senate Bill Targets File Swapping Networks - The U.S. Senate has introduced a bill that would make it easier for artists to sue file-swapping services like Kazaa and Morpheus. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) are the co-sponsors of the “Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004,” which would allow companies to be held liable if they “intentionally induce” copyright infringement.
  • XP SP2 Firewall warning - Anybody that thinks SP2's Windows Firewall is such a large improvement had better make sure that they know all the facts. If you believe you need a firewall you will still not want to rely upon SP2's built in Firewall. All of the hype behind Service Pack 2's Firewall may lead most people to believe that Windows Firewall is all they need to stay safe. All of the marketing buzz gives people a false sense of security. While this IS a large step in the right direction it still is nowhere near where it should be. Anybody currently using or planning on using SP2 had better read through this carefully to find out WHY it's not anywhere near as secure as the marketing team will try to make you think.
  • Last-minute changes made to XP SP2 - Microsoft has been making changes to its second service pack for Windows XP in light of customer feedback. Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the service pack was officially released on 15 June and feedback from beta testers has resulted in changes both to the user interface and to functionality.
  • Off-topic: Smoking wipes 10 years off a life - Smoking wipes 10 years off a person's life on average, according to the longest ever study of smokers, but giving up at any age brings huge benefits. Quitting at 30 virtually eliminates the risk from dying prematurely, and giving up at 50 halves it. But half of those who fail to kick the habit will die as a result of smoking, and a quarter of all smokers die in middle-age.
  • Off-topic: Noisy secret of Mona Lisa's smile - For centuries, artists, historians and tourists have been fascinated by Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile. Now it seems that the power of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece comes in part from an unlikely source: random noise in our visual systems. Christopher Tyler and Leonid Kontsevich at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco manipulated a digital image of the painting by introducing random visual noise - the equivalent of the snow seen on a badly tuned TV set - and asked 12 observers how they rated the resulting expression on a four-point scale from sad to happy.
  • Off-topic - ESA on mission to surf gravity's waves - A UK company has won the contract to build the heart of an ESA experiment designed to detect gravity waves, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. The Lisa (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) Pathfinder mission, scheduled for launch in 2008, is a precursor to the main event. The Lisa mission itself could revolutionise astronomy, scientists say, but before that can happen, they need to know whether their experiments will work. This is where the pathfinder mission comes in.
  • Microsoft DX9.0c available. Almost -The latest version of Windows XP service pack 2 has DirectX 9.0c inside. Which is great. But this service pack is still not officially launched, and according to reports on other sites appears to have suffered some delays. The people that are getting MSDN packages from Microsoft are already able to download it and some of them told us that they've done so, but we haven't. All drivers from 61.34 have support for Shaders 3.0, it appears.
  • Windows XP Starter edition? - Microsoft is currently planning a new edition to the Windows XP family of operating systems, namely "Starter Edition". Starter Edition is the name of a previously announced effort to deliver a tailored and localized Windows product to Thailand and Malaysia, as part of Microsofts efforts to enable access to technology.  Previous rumours suggested that Windows XP Starter Edition would include a set of applications on top of the standard Windows XP installation (including Office 2003). Neowin cannot confirm these reports but are awaiting a statement from Microsoft Press. According to CNET, Windows XP Starter Edition will be available in September and will cost 1,490 Thai baht, or about $36.
  • Yahoo to Trillian: Talk to the hand - Beginning at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, Yahoo changed its instant messaging language to prevent third-party services, such as Trillian, from accessing its service. Like previous statements, the company said the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo Messenger service. (A new patch for Trilian client can be found below)
  • Hotmail offers extra space - Hotmail will announce plans to offer more space to customers. In a bid to rival Google's upcoming Gmail, MSN plan to give free customers as much as 250meg of email space. MSN will also announce a plan to have a "plus" paid version of Hotmail for $19.95 a year which will include 2gig of email space.
  • Comdex 2004 canceled - Computer trade show Comdex, once the biggest event on the tech calendar, has been canceled this year, a victim of the growing interest in shows emphasizing consumer electronics and specialist IT gear.
  • Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cell for Wearable Electronics - Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it has developed the world's smallest methanol fuel cell for use in wireless headsets and other wearable electronics devices. The prototype direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is roughly thumb-size, measuring 22 millimetres by 45 millimetres (0.88 inches by 1.80 inches) and weighs 8.5 grammes (0.29 ounces).
  • ADSL2 and ADSL2+ deployment expected to surge after 2005 - Deployment of ADSL2 and ADSL2+ will be minimal until 2006, according to sources in the Taiwan xDSL manufacturing industry.
  • Intel Nocona foretells 64-bit desktop CPUs? - Intel’s planned launch of its next-generation Xeon processor, codenamed Nocona, next week has stirred a wave of market reports that the chipset giant may soon come out with a 64-bit desktop chip, according to sources at Taiwanese PC makers.
  • AMD updates Athlon 64 and Opteron Revision Guide - The document Rev. 3.25 lists erratum 109 which addresses a bug discovered in AMD's labs several weeks ago. According to the company, specific succeeding instruction may cause single data sets to be skipped which potentially could result in calculation errors and ultimately system crashes. The error is considered to be minor and rare. Users who are concerned about the error are advised to contact their mainboard manufacturer for a BIOS update.
  • Asus' Z9000 Notebook Offers Road Warrior Pretenses - Asus says its Z9000 notebook is tailor-made for the road warrior, with an integrated ATi 9100 IGP graphics chipset and a Pentium-M 1.7 GHz CPU. But do its power and battery life live up to Asus' mobile pretenses?
  • Toshiba Satellite P25-S670 - How do you build the ultimate multimedia notebook? Just ask Toshiba. Its latest portable, the Toshiba Satellite P25-S670, is a standout Media Center Edition PC that combines component-out and surround-sound capabilities, a first in such a notebook.
  • Mobinote DVX-POD 7010 - The DVX-POD is an iPod-looking Portable Media Player that features a 7-inch color LCD (720x480), 20GB 1.8-inch HDD, and weighs only 600g. You may notice that the DVX-POD has no visible front panel buttons, but has cleverly hidden the media controls at the top of the device with A/V ports situated on its sides. Video playback formats include MPEG-4, DivX 3.11, 4 and 5, QuickTime 6 and WMV files, but can also record TV video directly into MPEG-4. As for audio, it supports WMA and MP3 audio files and can also record voice memos via its built-in microphone. Photo formats include JPEG, GIF, and BMP images.
  • X800 XT PCIe (R423) review - Well there we have it, the R423, quite unexciting to say the least and certainly not worth contemplating if you already have a X800XT AGP board. Its also clear that right now PCIe doesnt have the hardware available to stress its theoretical bandwidth limitations with the R423 performing no better and in some cases slightly worse than its AGP counterpart. Its hard to get a totally equal testing platform and some of these differences could well be due to the underperforming DDRII on the PCIe system. It's not a bad move by ATI releasing the R423 because its a board that will tide you over for many months if you are wanting to get into PCIe (when its readily available on the market), but dont be expecting groundbreaking performance over current AGP hardware. This will of course in time change when next generation hardware hits the market.
  • All-in-Wonder 9600 XT vs Personal Cinema FX 5700 - Which multimedia graphics solution reigns supreme? TechReport has rounded up an All-in-Wonder Radeon 9600 XT and Personal Cinema FX 5700 to find out
  • Logitech MX 310, 510 and 900 - Gamers Depot have published a review of Logitech's revamped lineup of MX Mice.
  • The Complete ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Voltage Modding Guide - Adrian Rojak has completed his ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Voltage Modding Guide. As the title suggests, this guide will be all about volt modding the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. He covers all existing voltage modding methods as well as a new and easier method that he discovered and personally tested.
  • Bjorn3D's Very Own Nalu GF6800 Screenshots - Wohoo! Check it out!
  • Slackware Linux 10.0 out - Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll  find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: GNOME 2.6.1 (including a collection of pre-compiled GNOME applications), and KDE 3.2.3, the latest version of the award-winning  K Desktop Environment. Slackware uses the 2.4.26 kernel bringing you advanced performance features such as the ReiserFS journaling filesystem, SCSI and ATA RAID volume support, and kernel support for X DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) that brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to Linux (PR ~ download)
  • SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP1 - Microsoft on Tuesday refreshed its six-month-old reporting platform for SQL Server 2000 with a service pack that adds some minor functionality.
  • MS AuthDiag RC1 - Microsoft has released the RC1 of AuthDiag, a new IIS troublshooting tool designed specifically to assist with troubleshooting authentication. This is no ordinary utility in that it can help wtih diagnosing problems with NTFS, privledges, invalid registry key permission, incorrect metabase properties, UNC properties, and more.
  • Trillian patches - Patches are available /Trillian Basic 0.74 Patch I | Full ~ Trillian Pro 1.0 Patch / 2.013 Update (member login required)/ for Trillian and Trillian Pro to fix a Yahoo connection problem.
  • Fresh Download 7.05 - Fresh Download (download) is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners in the software, no spyware.
  • WinAce 2.6 Beta 1 - WinAce (download) is not just another archiving shell. With it's own powerful compression format ACE and built-in support for other popular compression types like ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB (to name a few), WinAce could actually become the only archiver you need.
  • Serious Samurize 1.55 - Samurize (download) is a system monitoring utility with outstanding configuration power. The configuration program is totally separated from the client for minimal memory usage. The program displays almost any kind of information right on your desktop/taskbar and homepage.
  • CDCheck 3.0.1.43 final - CDCheck is a utility for the prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files on CD-ROMs with an emphasis on error detection. With CDCheck you can check your CDs and discover which files are corrupted. By using the program proactively, you can insure that your data on CD-ROMs are safe -- before it"s too late! CDCheck provides the following features: readability verification, binary compare, CRC file creation (and verification) and file recovery.
  • BurnInTest Professional 4.0 Build 1015 - BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously stress tested for endurance, reliability and stability. BurnInTest tests the CPU, hard drives, CD ROMs, sound cards, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, RAM, network connections & printers.
  • A (huge) anti-spyware download list - There's a huge list of anti-spyware tools.
  • ForceWare 61.71 Beta drivers Wi2k/XP - These are ForceWare drivers for Windows 2000/XP version 61.72  This is a full NVIDIA reference set that supports all NVIDIA graphics cards. The drivers are dated at June 17th 2004 making them the newest available. Also, there are some new graphics cards entires in these drivers: NVIDIA_NV41.DEV_00CE.1 = "NVIDIA NV41GL" , NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0140.1 = "NVIDIA NV43"

last 10 comments:
xxxx(04:25 PM CEST - Jun,25 2004 )
in terms of the XP firewall, whoever wrote that article, it's nice but at the same time what is "he" doing about alerting MS? obviously it has bugs, it's still a work in progress, i think it's a little early to rush to such claims. from what i know, knowing lots of ms beta testers, the firewall isn't completely finished yet. i'm really glad 'i'm not a geek' pursued this fully before writing his article. i guess news is what you make it.

lucas(05:56 PM CEST - Jun,25 2004 )
the author of that firewall article is one paranoid fool. he seems terrified that programs on his pc can access the internet. the programs on YOUR pc are YOUR responsibility. if you're worried about spyware accessing the internet theres a simple solution, dont install spyware. the firewall does its job of keeping the nasties out just fine, if you're stupid enough to bring them in yourself then you deserve to be kicked from your ISP

xxxx(07:15 PM CEST - Jun,25 2004 )
yup.. like his site says, "i am not a geek". true enough.

Anonymous(09:43 PM CEST - Jun,25 2004 )
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GoldenBear(12:14 PM CEST - Jun,26 2004 )
Regarding Anti-Spam Bill: Who were the 4 idiots who voted against that bill!?!?!?

Regarding Smoking: And it makes you smell like shit....

Nuff said...

-GB

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