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 Monday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 02:16 AM CET - Jan,13 2004
  • Xombe Trojan poses as Microsoft warning - An e-mail disguised as a message from Microsoft's security team contains a dangerous Trojan horse called Xombe. Xombe, also known as Trojan.Xombe, Downloader-GJ and Troj/Dloader-L, was being distributed on Friday. It poses as a critical update for the Windows XP operating system. When executed, it attempts to download a malicious backdoor component from the Web. It appears to be an imitation of one of last year's most successful worms, the mass-mailed Swen, which also masqueraded as a security warning from Microsoft. However, Xombe has yet to repeat the success of Swen. While the former failed to make the top 10 threats intercepted by e-mail security company MessageLabs on Monday morning, Swen was at No. 2, with some 7,000 instances captured in the past 24 hours.
  • Microsoft pushes for a million Xbox Live users - Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach has announced that Microsoft hopes to have one million Xbox Live users by June this year - but new plans from Sony may give the PS2 an innovative edge in the online gaming arena.
  • Faster traffic will mean slower broadband - Proposed traffic legslation will have a detrimental impact on the rollout of broadband, a group of network operators has warned. The Traffic Management Bill, currently working its way through Parliament, is better known for headline-grabbing clauses such as granting more power to the likes of traffic wardens.
  • CES plays home to HomePlug at 100 Mbps - The Consumer Electronics show would not be complete without the HomePlug Powerline Alliance making a show of its technology for networking up the home using existing power cables. And HomePlug systems were on show both delivering in the new standard at 14 megabits per second (mbps), and a new advanced version from Intellon, offering a 200 Mbps signal with an aggregate throughput of 100 Mbps.
  • Microsoft extends support for Windows 98, ME - Although Microsoft had planned to pull the plug on support for Windows 98 and ME early this year, the firm said today it will extend the life of the products for more than two years. Support for Windows 98, 98SE and ME will now be available until the middle of June 2006. (thanks Peter) Another story can be found here.
  • Sharp TVs Add Recording, Portability - The Open Aquos series of LCD TVs will feature dual PC Card slots, which let you expand the set's capabilities in a number of ways. The Open Aquos sets ship with a personal video recorder (PVR) card that includes a 5GB hard disk drive for storing recorded television programs. Two models in the Aquos line will feature this personal video recorder capability, according to Sharp representatives. Both sets offer a 4:3 aspect ratio and feature 480-line progressive scan (480p) resolution, using Sharp's Advanced Super View LCD panel. A 20-inch model, the LC-20PX1U, is scheduled to become available in April and will be priced at $1900. In May, Sharp expects to launch a 15-inch version, the LC-15PX1U, for $1400.
  • Sharp to launch 45-inch LCD TV this summer - Japan-based Sharp plans to launch a 45-inch LCD TV in the US early this summer, according to the Japan-based Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun. Sharp has already begun test production of the model, priced at about US$9,000, at its new Kameyama plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan, the paper said.
  • The CES 2004 Report - Part 1 Coverage - @ HardwareZone (MSI googies, NVIDIA'a booth, Seagate in the Spotlight); @Trusted Reviews.com (LG, Samsung, BenQ, Creative, Panasonic, Archos) , Pioneer demonstrates dual layer recording at CES, only firmware modification needed
  • DVD Player Goes High-Def - A $350 DVD player, coming later this year from V, Inc., will be the first to use Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 compression codec and the HighMAT format to deliver HD video on standard DVDs. The Bravo D3 Home HD DVD Media Player is designed to provide an alternative to pricey blue-laser optical devices. Unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show here, it is scheduled to ship in the second quarter. The device runs on a Sigma Designs EM8620L processor and can decode MPEG2, MPEG 4, and WMV 9 video and play it back at high-definition resolutions up to 1080i (interlaced) using a component video or DVI output. In addition, the Bravo D3 can decode WMA 9, WMA Pro, WMA lossless, Dolby Digital, MP3, MPEG1/2, and MPEG 4 AAC audio.
  • MSI launches its first notebook, more than 10 new models expected this year - Micro-Star International (MSI) has officially launched its first Wi-Fi notebook, the M3000. The M3000, which was unveiled at the recently concluded 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, is based on Intel’s Centrino platform and features a 15-inch screen, ATI Technologies Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics chip and support for IEEE 1394, USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi connectivity. At CES, the company also showcased its new multimedia barebone system, the MSI Mega 865. “Mega” stands for MSI entertainment gaming appliance. The Mega 865, which features a Pentium 4 processor and supports dual-channel DDR400 memory, combines the functions of a Hi-Fi stereo, DVD/VCD player, MP3 player, TV and PC.
  • EPoX to make NVIDIA Cards - Hexus.net send words that EPoX will be releasing a range of NVIDIA cards from MX440 right up to 5950U. The cards will be based on reference ODMs.
  • iRock! 860 MP3 Player review - iRock's latest Digital Audio Player, the iRock 860 will please anyone who is looking for a cheap and tiny unit for some music on the move. Being a solid state unit you won't have to worry about tracks skipping, and with its support of MP3 and WMA (including VBR varieties) as well as an FM Tuner you should be all set for a long trip.
  • Hauppauge MediaMVP review - Hauppauge MediaMVP is a mini Linux setup box that can receive multimedia data such as movie clips, mp3 and jpeg picture from a Windows 2000/XP computer through an Ethernet cable. Since the cable can be as much as 100m long, you can now playback these data even your computer is located a few rooms away. MediaMVP will convert these multimedia data and send it to your TV and Hi-Fi system.
  • Gigabyte GA-8TRS300M motherboard review - Gigabyte introduces a value motherboard centered around ATI's Radeon 9100 IGP. The Gigabyte GA-8TRS300M utilizes the Radeon 9100 Integrated Graphics Processor to deliver a competitor to take on competitive budget systems with INTEL integrated graphics or systems with low end AGP video cards. The engineers at Gigabyte have chosen not to include TV-out or 1394 with the GA-8TRS300M which may allow for a more aggressive pricing strategy against the handful of other manufacturers who are also producing motherboards based on the ATI 9100 IGP.
  • Athlon64 Boards Found Lagging in Memory Support - Moever, as THG test has shown, when two DIMM modules are used on most of today's commerically-available motherboards, often incomprehensible problems can be expected.A memory upgrade can thus be especially problematic, as the localisation of the problem-causing components can take hours and put a strain on the user or white box vendor's the nerves.
  • Geil 1GB PC3200 Dual DDR Kit review -  Geil has made things easy for you by selling a high-performance, low-latency pair of RAM. You can currently get the 512MB kit for around $180, which comes out to less than $100 per stick.
  • Leadtek WinFast A350 Ultra TDH MyVIVO Video Card review - The Leadtek A350 features ViVo options and the extra 128 Megs of Memory which make it a superior selection for the price. 3DExtreme would have no reservations suggesting the Leadtek A350, as it's fast for gaming usage and includes a barrage of other video uses. (PIP, Direct to DVD Capture, etc.) But they also wrote: "First of all the Leadtek A350 was not stable when using a Thermal Take 420 Watt Power Supply, I needed to use a TT 480 Watt PSU that I had here to get it to run stable on the Asus P4C800. Emailing Leadtek I was told that 450 watts or better was the suggested Power Supply that should be used. The 9800 Pro worked fine with my TT 420 Watt PSU"
  • Connect 3D Radeon 9600XT review - Moderately priced for the gamer on a budget, it still puts out the frag power. Even though both cards were evenly matched, once we turned on the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, the 9600XT was still punching out some good frame rates.
  • HIS Excalibur ICEQ 256MB DDR2 Radeon 9800Pro videocard review -The Excalibur IceQ 9800 pro embodies everything I have ever wanted in a videocard. The card is packed full of 256megs of fast DDR2, includes a quiet and efficient monster cooler and for once there are memory sinks installed throughout the card. The performance numbers and results would easily make even the pickiest of gamers happy with the ability to handle quality settings and pump out great framerates without breaking a sweat.
  • Swiftech H20-8501 review - EnvyNews has posted a review of Swiftech's All-in-One watercooling kit
  • Kingwin KT424-BK Aluminum Case - Overall, the Kingwin KT424-BK Aluminum is an excellent budget oriented aluminum chassis solution. The 2mm brushed aluminum alloy provide with chic aesthetics and also give the Kingwin KT424-BK a greater cooling performance when compare to rival steel models. The exterior is very well designed and offers many modification possibilities that will appeal to case modders.
  • Wacom Intuos2 Platinum Edition review - enScape has posted a review of Wacom Intuos2 Platinum Edition,
  • The Simple Antialiasing and Anisotropic Guide - What are these mystical words which seem to make young geeks drool and put fear into the hearts of those with ageing hardware? If you think Antialiasing is a strong dislike of the Jennifer Garner TV series, and Anisotropic is a small region in the South Pacific then I think you might find this guide will help you more than you know.
  • Virtual PC 2004 review - When all is said and done, how useful Virtual PC is depends greatly on your requirements. For those of you looking to use this system for legacy games however - Don't. On that front, it simply isn't up to the task, and as this is most likely the main reason any home user would be interested in this kind of software, it's very difficult to recommend it in that sense.
  • PHP 4.3.5 RC1 - PHP 4.3.5RC1 (Win32 ~ Linux) has been released for testing. This is the first release candidate and should have a very low number of problems and/or bugs.
  • Google Toolbar 2.0.106 - The Google Toolbar (download) increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to install. When the Google Toolbar is installed, it automatically appears along with the Internet Explorer toolbar.
  • DVD Shrink 3.1.2 - DVD Shrink 3.1.2 fixes possible picture corruption (pixelation or freezing) when low compression is applied at a scene change and contains some changes to support a unicode build.
  • iuVCR v4.8.4.329 (SHW) - iuVCR (download) is a Windows 2000/XP intended universal video recording program. Have a TV tuner or a video capture card installed on your Windows 2000 or XP system? Now you can easily record your favorite TV programs and videos in *.AVI or *.WMV format. iuVCR has got a simple and plain interface, allows to capture video of any format, resolution and duration, can automatically start when scheduled and has a number of other useful features.
  • Media Player Classic 6.4.7.5 - A new version of the Media Player Classic (MPC) (download) software has been released. This new version 6.4.7.5 has a couple of bugfixes and some filters have been updated.
  • Lame 3.95.1 Stable - LAME (download) is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. LAME is not for everyone - it is distributed as source code only and requires the ability to use a C compiler. However, many popular ripping and encoding programs include the LAME encoding engine.
  • Central Brain Identifier 6.0.0.2 Build 110 - Central Brain Identifier (download) is designed to provide detailed recognition and obtaining the most complete extended information for all AMD processors. It recognizes more than 40 various models of the AMD processors.
  • nVHardPage NVIDIA Tweaker v1.86.0b - nVHardPage tweaker serves on en/disabling hidden features in nVidia control panel, tweaking nVidia Direct3D and OpenGL settings and overclocking your nVidia graphic card.
  • Foobar 0.7.7b - Foobar is advanced audio player with low memory usage and support for several audio formats.

Comments from Hi-Cposted - 07:08 AM CET - Jan,13 2004
But the real danger is Windows XP, which is posing as an operating system!

Comments from dirtyoldmanposted - 08:43 AM CET - Jan,13 2004
Virtual PC is VERY useful. It's a great way to host warez/p0rn at work and the administrator can't find which workstation it's left on! :-)

Comments from posted - 06:13 PM CET - Jan,13 2004
your so cool your using company resources to commit crime. Someone should give you a medal. especially if you work for microsoft.

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