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 Wednesday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 08:17 PM CEST - Jul,14 2004
  • Two critical MS security bulletins - Vulnerability in Task Scheduler Could Allow Code Execution (841873) || Vulnerability in HTML Help Could Allow Code Execution (840315)
  • Another important MS security bulletins - Vulnerability in Utility Manager Could Allow Code Execution (842526) || Vulnerability in POSIX Could Allow Code Execution (841872) || Security Update for IIS 4.0 (841373) || Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (839645) || Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (823353)
  • Download.Ject Removal Tool - Microsoft has released an updated Trojan detection and removal tool (download) to help PC users clean up after the sophisticated malware attack that loaded keystroke loggers and other malicious code on infected systems. The 118 KB removal tool has been programmed to remove the payload delivered by the server-side Download.Ject Trojan. The Download.Ject Trojan, also known as Scob, exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft's IIS 5.0 servers and Internet Explorer (IE) browser to distribute malware programs.
  • Stealth virus is stealthiest of all - There's a new mass mailing virus in town, and it's built to make life for AV researchers even more difficult. Atak uses a variety of tactics in its attempts to escape antivirus analysis. Its main trick is to check to see if it's being run in a debugging environment. If so, it exits to avoid detection. The ploy prevents casual perusal of the code by researchers and (potentially) rival virus writers. A possible bug, related to the way Atak checks its activation date, prevents it from being run in a "sandbox". A sandbox is a virtual environment commonly used by AV researchers to look at the behaviour of malware in a safe environment.
  • File-sharing thrives as Net users find new outlets - Internet users download twice as many films, games and music as they did a year ago, despite a big crackdown on the activity, according to a study on Tuesday. Better broadband Internet connections and compression technologies mean larger files can be downloaded more rapidly, creating as big a piracy headache for movie studios as for music labels.
  • Industry Deal Set on Allowing Limited DVD Copying -  A group of media and technology companies including Microsoft Corp. and Walt Disney Co. have agreed in principle to allow consumers to make legal backup copies of next-generation video discs and share their content on portable devices. The group, which also includes International Business Machines Corp., Intel Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros., will not have any technology to license until the end of the year.
  • DNS changes to take minutes (instead of hours) - VeriSign is to rapidly update Domain Name System (DNS) records every few minutes instead of only twice a day. From 8 September changes in the .com and .net zones will take an estimated five minutes to propagate across all 13 .com/.net authoritative name servers. The old systems will remain there for those who don't want to make the leap forward.
  • Off-topic: Achieving 1,194 Miles Per Gallon - Engineering students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology designed a fuel efficient one-person vehicle that achieved 1,194 miles per gallon of gasoline in the Society of Automotive Engineers' Supermileage Competition, conducted last weekend near Detroit.
  • Xbox 2 revealed at X04? - According to many reports flying around the internet Microsoft are set to reveal the successor the xbox console at this year's annual X04 event in Europe. Microsoft continues to refuse or comment on the speculation regarding the Xbox’s successor despite several key developers already confirming that they are in already possession of Xbox 2 development kits and that game development for the next gen console is also well underway.
  • Bill Kills DVD - Microsoft founder, Bill Gates in an interview with a German newspaper predicted that DVD's would be obsolete in 10 years at the latest. The reason for this he said, "These things can scratch or simply get lost." Asked what home entertainment would be like in the future, Gates said, "DVD technology would be obsolete in 10 years at the latest. If you consider that nowadays we have to carry around film and music on little silver discs and stick them in the computer, it's ridiculous." Gates' vision of television of the future was: "TV that will simply show what we want to see, when we want to see it. When we get home, the home computer will know who we are from our voice or our face.
  • Samsung slashes 17-inch LCD monitor prices in Europe - Samsung recently cut prices of its 17-inch LCD monitor panels for the Europe market by 20% to US$240, sources said. Samsung Taiwan was unavailable for comment and Taiwan TFT LCD makers remain doubtful about the rumor. The Taiwanese companies suspect the price cuts are for Samsung’s second-tier inventories and expect the incident to have little impact on the projected US$270-290 price range for 17-inch LCD monitor panels in the third quarter of this year. The Taiwan-based makers pointed out that it is unlikely that Samsung will cut prices of its A-grade panels this early and that prices of the segment may not drop to US$230-240 until year-end.
  • AMD to raise prices on CPUs - AMD is going to raise prices in a little over a week. Before you wonder if the sky is falling or not, it isn't, trust me. On July 26th, prices on 2800+ and up Athlon XPs will go up. In a not quite as cunning as they might think plan, it won't really affect you much.
  • Playing DVD movies in your Microsoft Smartphone - Dutch software company Makayama released "DVD to Mobile (Smartphone Edition)" (homepage). This software lets users convert a DVD to a Smartphone and watch it in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film. Users can watch their DVDs on the go, on any Windows Mobile-based Smartphone, such as the Orange SPV-series, from a postage stamp size memory card. The software installs an encoding package on a PC with Windows XP, and a free player on the mobile phone. Users insert a DVD in the drive of their PC and with only two clicks, the software turns it into a super small movie file, which will play on the provided mediaplayer. The headset or the built-in speaker can be used to listen to the sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVDs are also supported.
  • Toshiba Unveils Laptop With Instant-On TV & DVR - Toshiba has unveiled a new laptop, Qosmio, that allows users to watch TV or a DVD without booting the OS.
  • CRTs vs. LCDs - Hardcore gamers and creative pros may have some problems with LCDs though. Ghosting and accuracy is still a problem compared with CRTs. Gamers may find ghosting distracting. Creative professionals may find the comparatively lower contrast, color accuracy, and picture accuracy to be problems that outweigh the benefits of LCDs.
  • JetAudio iAudio4 review - TheTechLounge take a look at JetAudio's iAUDIO 4 MP3 player/recorder/FM tuner/voice recorder.
  • Diamond SupraMax LE 56K PCI Fax Modem review - In this day and age a serious internet connection is required for any type of modern computer usage. At one point I was known to have reasoned that 28,800 baud was all that a man would ever need in his internet connection. Sadly this is not the case. In this ultra digital age Diamond has bestowed upon us the SupraMax LE 56K Fax Modem. Finally here is a modem that will allow me to receive faxes and now connect to the internet at blazing speeds. Now keep in mind that 56,000 baud is not possible due to constraints on conventional phone lines. However the speeds achieved are close enough.
  • Cape Red Kit CPU Single HTF 2.0 Rad: Water Cooling Kit review - This kit was a little bit more complex to install but thats because the kit was designed with every detail and failsafe mechanisms required in a retail kit, no external power sources are needed, the pump runs off a 12v rail and turns on and off when the pc is powered on or off. The radiator is a 20 pass system that provides optimal performance using the 8mm tubing and pump configuration.
  • S3's DeltaChrome S4 Pro GPU preview - The DeltaChrome S4 brings S3's DirectX 9-class shaders and component HDTV output to lower price points, but is the DeltaChrome S4 fast enough to take on ATI and NVIDIA's low-end offerings? TechReport have compared a DeltaChrome S4 Pro with a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra and Radeon 9550 to find out.
  • AOpen GeforceFX 5900XT review - All in all, even though the AOpen GeforceFX 5900XT’s bundle was lacking it's still a great buy for anyone on a budget desiring a video card with great performance and decent overclocking abilities. AOpen has produced a real winner with this video card.
  • I-Rocks IR-7100 and IR-7300 800 DPI Optical Mice review - The I-Rocks IR-7300 and 7100 offer good performance for what they are, very reasonably priced optical mice. They look nice and perform well, but lack some of the features of higher priced mice, like extra programmable buttons. They also lack that durable feel that many higher priced mice have. If your budget is of utmost concern, and you need performance but not a lot of buttons, the I-Rock mice are just what the Doctor ordered.
  • ADS Tech Instant TV USB 2.0 TV Tuner - The convergence of electronic entertainment devices such as TV's, DVD players, and stereos with personal computers is finally starting to happen. Purpose-built computers with direct support from Microsoft in the form of Windows XP Media Center Edition are available now. Even better news for the do-it-yourselfer is the availability of devices and software to create your own Home Theater PC (HTPC). Building a low budget HTPC was on my list of summer projects and this effort was greatly facilitated by the arrival of ADS Tech's 'Instant TV' USB 2.0 TV Tuner.
  • Onix Rocket Tykes 5.1 speakers review - Onix's Rocket Tykes are truly a gem among micro speaker systems. If you are looking for a tiny speaker system with little sacrifice in sound, you may not need to look any further than the Rocket Tykes. Overall, the Tykes are pleasant to listen to and quite adept for movies or music. They are also very versatile, with the ability to be used in many situations where space and installation are a challenge.
  • Annoyances of the Computer World Article - This article is intended to be a more in depth look at spyware and other annoyances of the computer world, however Kamikaze Badger's message is a good stop for anyone looking for some basic information that contains feedback from OCC members.
  • Unreal Tournament 2004: 64 Bit Performance - The 5332 drivers were released on January 21st while the 6106 drivers were released on June 30th. This leaves about 5 months for development. While Linux gaming is rather undeveloped I think the performance and availability gap is closing between windows and Linux. With the development of executables and drivers Linux will scare away less and less people of the gaming scene. Also with the help of Wine X we start to see more and more games working on Linux.
  • Unofficial multiregional Hack for the Kiss 450, 470, 1500 & 1504 DVD Players - download.
  • Hyper-Threading Technology Test Utility - Systems that pass all three tests have Hyper-Threading Technology enabled. For more information on HT Technology, visit the overview page for a demonstration. If the Hyper-Threading Technology Test Utility has returned a non-passing result for the tested desktop or notebook system, this area will provide guidance in understanding the results and steps to resolve potential system issues.
  • phpMyAdmin 2.6.0 Beta 2 - phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
  • PHP 4.3.8 Final - This release (changelog) is made in response to several security issues that have been discovered since the 4.3.7 release. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 4.3.8 as soon as possible.
  • PHP 5.0 - This release represents a milestone (changelog) in the evolution of PHP. It sports the new Zend Engine II, a completely re-worked object model, and many many new features.
  • XPlite/2000lite 1.3.0246 - XPlite and 2000lite are powerful configuration utilities for Windows creating a modular Windows operating system where YOU are in control.
  • NV 4.40 ref drivers for NF2/NF3 - OC Workbench has posted NV 4.40 reference drivers for NF2/NF3.

last 10 comments:
xxxx(09:24 PM CEST - Jul,14 2004 )
I've gotten a new virus/trojan, I was able to get rid of it, but undetected by everything. I only noticed it when I check my process. iagsrzax.exe. Opens a send and receive port. nothing in google or anything about it. But icon was like one i seen a long time ago, no company information or anything associated with the file. I just deleted it and problem solved. oh and before you go accusing IE, it was latest version of netscape.

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