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| (hx) 05:25 PM CEST - Jul,29 2004 |
- 4,677 Viruses In First Six Months of 2004 - A firm specializing in
the development of anti-virus and anti-spam software said Wednesday that
4,677 new viruses were written in the first six months of 2004 -- an
increase of 21 percent over the same period last year. The major viruses were
Sasser, which had a 26.1 percent share of viruses, and variations of the
Netsky virus, said Sophos analyst Graham Cluley.
- Zindows Worm Follows MyDoom's Path - Antivirus companies have
issued warnings and software updates for a new Internet worm, dubbed
Zindos, that infects machines already compromised by the MyDoom.O worm and
attacks Microsoft's Web site. Zindos.A takes advantage of an open back door in
Windows machines that contracted the MyDoom.O worm that appeared Monday.
- See What You Share on P2P -
A Showcase of
Material Found on Peer-to-Peer Networks throughout the World. Here you
will find Everything from Raunchy Personal Photos to Confidential Police
Reports.
- Green card scam couple jailed -
A Florida husband and wife team who made millions from victims through a
long-running Green card visa lottery scam have been sent to prison and ordered
to pay massive fines. John Romano, 30, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sent
to jail for 37 months by US District Judge James Cohn last Friday after
pleading guilty to mail fraud offences in connection with the scam. Romano's
wife, Hoda M. Nofal, 29, began a six-month sentence in April after pleading
guilty to obstruction of mail offences related to the same racket.
- Details of Microsoft antivirus software leak out - Microsoft
representatives in the United States refused to comment on functional elements
or a potential production time frame for the antivirus package. However,
Mirail said the
Microsoft antivirus software will utilize two different means of detecting
destructive files, the first of which will reference a regularly updated list
of known viruses to check for potential infections. The second antivirus tool
will analyze computer systems to assess whether they have been hit by a virus
in the past and attempt to give end users an idea of how at risk their
computers might be for future problems.
- Chinese authorities shut down 700 porn sites - Apparently,
224
"suspects" have been detained since July 16, which was when the porn
shutdowns began. However, no further details have been revealed.
- Off-topic: FCC Looks Into Regulating Violence on TV - The FCC is
considering getting into the business of
regulating violence on television (broadcast and cable/satellite).
- Off-topic: Mystery of solar jets solved -
Analysis of high-resolution movies of the Sun has cracked a 125-year-old
mystery - what produces jets of matter that spurt upwards from the solar
surface at 20 kilometres per second. The jets, called solar spicules, are
about 500 kilometres across and reach several thousand kilometres high. They
rise from the photosphere, the visible surface of the Sun, into the solar
atmosphere. They are also ubiquitous, with some 100,000 active at any one
time. Yet, until now, no theory has explained their behavior.
- Nintendo DS Gets Sleeker Final Design -
The final design of the system is viewable on
Nintendo official site
(screenshot)
- looks sleeker and far less chunky, but still a bit awkward (thanks Justin
Hancock).
- Unholy row erupts over Creative Doom 3 patent -
A deal
Creative announced with id Software the other day appears to have more to
it than meets the eye of the storm that's forming round it. That's according
to web site Beyond 3D, Creative already owns the rights to a software patent
on the face of it similar to Doom 3 shadowing. That site claims that
Creative's behaviour is inexcusable, and it emailed id Software's John Carmack
to see what he had to say.
- Glitch hits DirecTV TiVo boxes -
The glitch apparently is caused by a software upgrade, version 3.1.0c,
that was first downloaded by DirecTV TiVo set top boxes earlier this month,
according to postings to a number of TiVo community sites.
- ATI promises Doom 3 performance boost - According to TheInquirer,
ATI is
doing something about performance on Doom 3 but that it hasn't done
anything to its Open GL driver for almost a year now since there were no
really significant games last year which used Open GL. The ATI lad confirmed
these claims. It's certainly time to do something about it as Doom 3 is close
to materialisation and released in just a week. The ATI claims that we could
expect some performance boost with a new driver release.
- IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Security with Microsoft WinXP 1.1 -
Microsoft has posted
revision 1.1 of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Security with Microsoft
Windows XP guide.
- ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide -
This guide
is more than just about how to perform a few advanced tweaks with the
Catalysts. Whether you use the official Catalysts or the Omega drivers, this
10-page guide has something for you. It covers the entire driver installation,
setup, troubleshooting and tweaking process from start to finish.
- DirectX 9.0c Control Panel - 3Dcenter.de have posted
the DirectX 9.0c control panel for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003.
- PHPMaker 2.1 -
PHPMaker (download)
is an automation tool (for Windows) that can generate a full set of PHP
scripts quickly from MySQL database. Using the generated PHP, users can view,
edit, search, add and delete records in the database easily on the Web.
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last 10 comments: | JamieK | (07:10 PM CEST - Jul,29 2004 ) | | They had better make sure to fix the bug with Knights of the Old Republic while they are at it. |
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| FX5900 | (11:25 AM CEST - Jul,30 2004 ) | | Good on china for shutting down the porn sites. 700 down, only 2.5million to go. :D |
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| lucas | (11:38 AM CEST - Jul,30 2004 ) | yay! a ms virus scanner, just what we need! now all the clueless idiots will have an even falser sense of security than they already do!
RE: the Nintendo DS, its looking very sleek now.
RE: software patents, they suck |
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