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| (hx) 04:07 AM CEST - Apr,24 2002 |
- Porn star debuts vicious virus - A new highly
aggressive" virus using
the name of a well known porn star to aid infection has been spotted in the
wild. Antivirus firms have warned that the 'Jenna Jameson' virus has a "large
potential for spreading" because it tricks users into executing the code by tempting
them with links to free pics of the porn star doing the nasty. The virus arrives as
an email with the subject line: 'Jenna Jameson pornostar free superfuck+photo addresses'.
The accompanying attachment, 'JENNA-JAMESON-FREE-SUPERFUCK.TXT.vbs', appears to be a text
file but is really a malicious Visual Basic script.
- Anti-Spyware Program Targeted By Multimedia Player - Calling the
tactic "malware at its worst," Lavasoft said its privacy software is being silently deleted
when users install a third-party multimedia player. Newsbytes has confirmed that
installing RadLight version 3.03 deletes Lavasoft's Ad-Aware program, as promised in a
warning in the software's 1,100-word license agreement.
- Start-up defends DVD-copying software - 321 Studios asks the
court to declare that its DVD Copy Plus program, which lets people make copies of DVD
movies, does not
violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- IE 6 Privacy Features Open Users To Attack - Security flaws in
privacy features added to Microsoft's Web browser could enable attackers
to perform several privacy-robbing attacks, including hijacking victims' MSN Messenger
accounts, a security researcher warned.
- Europe plans to jail hackers - The European Commission has unveiled new proposals
that could send Internet hackers and spreaders of computer viruses to jail for years.
- Rumbled Russian hackers banged up - The ringleaders of a Russian
hacker group that misappropriated almost $1m from foreign bank accounts have been put
behind bars. Russian newspaper Kommersant reported yesterday that Zviadi Beria and
Vladimir Medvedov had been sentenced to five years in prison.
- How "smart" is your ID card? - Companies are offering new smart cards with
improved technology, including security and counterfeiting resistance, in hopes of
hastening its broader use.
- Experiment confirms Sun theories - New evidence confirms last year's indication that one type of neutrino
emerging from the Sun's core does switch to another type en route to the Earth.
- IBM stacks hard-disk bricks to build dense storage cube -
Researchers at IBM Corp. are creating a prototype for a vast data-storage system built Lego-style
with storage-array bricks that can be stacked into a cube-shaped server. Such systems
would significantly reducing the size, cost and power of today's data center storage
systems, the company said.
- Intel to debut speedy 2.4GHz Xeon chip - Intel plans to release
a 2.4GHz version
of its Xeon chip for one- and two-processor servers during its developer conference in
Taiwan, sources close to the company said. Along with being faster than existing Xeons,
the new chip will be the first Xeon manufactured on wafers with 300-millimeter diameters.
More than twice as many chips can be produced from these wafers than standard
200-millimeter wafers for roughly the same cost. Intel started producing Pentium 4 chips
on these wafers in the first quarter. As a result, the new wafers can lead to higher
profits, or provide insulation in a price war. The chip is expected to cost $165 in
1,000-unit quantities.
- ATi's New All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB Review - The All-In-Wonder
Radeon 8500 is ATis direct response to those hardcore gamers that want a powerful
gaming card along with quality TV capabilities. The AIW Radeon 8500 is the most powerful
"All-In-Wonder" yet, with its robust 275MHz. Radeon 8500 GPU and 128MB of
275MHz. (550MHz.) DDR SGRAM . Clearly, this new card is ATi's most ambitious All-In-Wonder
to date, with the strength to take on some of the fastest gaming cards on the market
today. So let's take a peek at some of the All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500's finer qualities and
then we'll put ATi's latest "Wonder" to the test, to see how
"Wonderful" it may perform when we compare it to the competition.
- Video cards Reviews - NVIDIA's
Geforce 4 Ti4200 vs. ATi's Radeon 8500, NVIDIA
Quadro4 200 Nvs, Chaintech Ti200 Special Edition, GeForce4
Ti 4200, ATI
All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500, NVIDIA Geforce 4 Ti4600 Reference Card, eVGA GeForce4
MX440.
- Miscelanous HW Reviews - ASUS CRW-4012A
40/12/48 CD-RW, Bay
Fillers, Koolance Frozen PC2-601, Iogear Phaser Mouse, SiS' Xabre GPU, Sony 24x CD-R-RW,
X-Arcade Multi-Platform Controller.
- psyBNC Vulnerable to a DoS Attack - psyBNC has a problem dealing with oversized passwords,
making it possible to tie up all the connection slots and consume a lot of CPU on the
server.
- Elemental Panic Crash - Elemental Panic Crash
was a shot at simple but addictive gameplay. You must go for a high score in a fast paced
game of reflexes and wits, as you switch elements to battle other elements. There's tons
of flashy effects and lots of powerups to gather in your quest for the top rank on the
high score list. With cute presentation and great graphics and music, this one's sure to
occupy your time for quite a while.
- Adobe Illustrator 10.0.2 update - I don't know what is new, just leech this 2.5MB big update for Adobe
Illustrator 10.
- PHP 4.2.0 - The biggest change in PHP 4.2.0 concerns variable
handling. External variables (from the environment, the HTTP request, cookies or the web
server) are no longer registered in the global scope by default. The preferred method of
accessing these external variables is by using the new Superglobal arrays, introduced in
PHP 4.1.0.
- Microsoft Powertoys For WindowsXP - The powertoys must be
downloaded individually: Alt-Tab Replacement / Open Command Window Here / Tweak UI / Power Calculator / Image Resizer / CD Slide Show Generator / Virtual Desktop Manager / Taskbar Magnifier / HTML Slide Show Wizard / Webcam Timershot.
- Sonique 1.96 - Are you bored from long years with WinAmp?
:) Try this cool
mp3 player.
- Windows Messenger v4.6.0078 - Download WindowsXP US/English or Non WindowsXP version.
- Windows Blinds 3.3 - WindowBlinds
is a program designed to make Windows into a fully skinnable operating system. It does
this by applying visual styles (skins) to Windows. On Windows XP, it extends Microsoft's
visual style engine to support WB visual styles which are faster and use less memory and
are far more flexible. With version 3.3, much of the Windows XP visual style engine has
been brought to Windows 98, ME, and 2000. New under the hood changes include a global
bitmap cache which dramatically improves performance while reducing memory consumption.
- ATi RADEON Refresh Rate Fix v0.9.9.6 - Leech new version
of this cool tool - No more gaming at 60Hz :)
- Official Nvidia Driver Update v28.32 Win2k/XP - Nvidia today updated their
drivers page with HQL Certified 28.32 drivers. I have no idea if they are any
different than the version already released.
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| Comments from me | posted - 10:24 AM CEST - Apr,24 2002 | | Can i ask why you are destroying a great web site i look at every day with massively annoying pop up windows every time you try to do anything? Are you purposely trying to ruin the site? |
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| Comments from hx | posted - 11:35 AM CEST - Apr,24 2002 | | You are 100% right it's really horrible :( I hate these pop-ups too, but I cannot do much if we want survive and keep the site alive.
Slashdot.org has the same problem and they started new service for subscribers who don't want to see banners and pop-ups. But they must pay a bit. Do you think it would help also here? Would you pay a few bucks a year? |
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| Comments from me | posted - 05:39 PM CEST - Apr,24 2002 | | probably not mate....
but not many people would. i realise they must be doing it for the money, but surely they could use some script that makes it only pop up once. its not that difficult... |
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| Comments from hx | posted - 07:32 PM CEST - Apr,24 2002 | | Of course, we using such scripts too, you should see the pop-up only once a day |
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| Comments from Erboz | posted - 08:13 PM CEST - Apr,24 2002 | | Just get "The Proxomitron" ;-)
A lot of asses who actually try to make money by running a website sh*t in their pence when they hear that name, but for us "surfers" The Proxomitron is our true angel !
http://proxomitron.cjb.net
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