Topic: COMPUTER - on November 6, 2006 at 2:55:00 PM CET
Virus creators target Wikipedia
Malicious hackers have turned to Wikipedia to try to help them catch out PC users.
The virus writers created a page on the German Wikipedia that linked to a fake fix for a new version of an old malicious Windows worm.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 4, 2006 at 3:53:00 PM CET
The $200 Billion Lunch: We're switching to IPv6, dontcha know, and it might be worth it.
Remember Y2K? If you worked in Information Technology in the waning days of the last millennium, you probably remember Y2K as a combination of Christmas and the hardest workday of your life. We'd programmed ourselves into a potential disaster with the way computers handled dates, and fixing the problem took several years and a reported $100 billion. Well if you liked Y2K, you'll LOVE IPv6.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 3, 2006 at 10:21:00 AM CET
I want a Firefox Extension to ...
200+ extremely useful firefox extensions that save time and effort.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 2, 2006 at 10:26:00 AM CET
29.8% of Windows XP users consider a move to Linux over Vista
A recent poll shows a good percentage of *tech-savvy* XP users considering a move to Linux over an upgrade to Vista. It seems Microsoft are pushing users away with more looking at using Linux than legally upgrading.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 31, 2006 at 6:06:00 PM CET
New Windows attack can kill firewall
The code, which was posted on the Internet early Sunday morning, could be used to disable the Windows Firewall on a fully patched Windows XP PC that was running Windows' Internet Connection Service (ICS). This service allows Windows users to essentially turn their PC into a router and share their Internet connection with other computers on the local area network (LAN.) It is typically used by home and small-business users.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 28, 2006 at 6:51:00 PM CEST
Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours
Firefox 2.0 has had over two million downloads in 24 hours with a peak rate of over 30 downloads a second. This means Firefox is well on track to beat IE7's three million in four days. Of course stats don't equal users but it's interesting to see that the demand for Firefox is currently outstripping IE.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 28, 2006 at 12:20:00 AM CEST
Test Firefox's New Anti Fruad Site Feature Here
DO NOT ENTER ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SITE. It is a fraudulent site and Firefox knows it. Open this link in the new Firefox 2.0 to see the anti fraud protection in action.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 27, 2006 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
Brokerages lose $22M to hackers in three months
Two American brokerage houses have written off $22 million in fraud losses on their third quarter financials, citing spyware, stolen identities and hacker fraud as the cause.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 27, 2006 at 1:19:00 PM CEST
HAL - Engineers building first space supercomputer
Engineering researchers at the University of Florida and Honeywell Aerospace are designing and building the computer projected to operate as much as 100 times faster than any computer in space today. Expected to be launched aboard a NASA rocket on a test mission in 2009, the computer is needed to process rapidly increasing amounts of data gathered by advanced scientific satellites. It is also needed to help space probes make more rapid decisions by themselves, independently of their Earth-bound minders.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 26, 2006 at 11:22:00 PM CEST
No Service Pack 3 Update for Windows XP?
With Microsoft now saying that its next major service pack for Windows XP will not ship until 2008, some Windows users are wondering whether the software upgrade will ever be released.
"The fear is Service Pack 3 will just get killed off," says Jeff Centimano, an IT consultant with Levi, Ray & Shoup, based in Kansas City, Missouri, who says that he's heard concerns from administrators since late last week, when Microsoft announced "preliminary" plans to ship SP3 in the first half of 2008, later than previously expected.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 25, 2006 at 6:46:00 PM CEST
Bypass all Windows Genuine Advantage validation
Haklabs has posted an 8-step solution you can use to bypass the annoying Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation process for any Microsoft product installation--not just IE7.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 25, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
Firefox 2.0 Recommended Plug-ins Announced
In anticipation of the imminent release of Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has relaunched its “recommended add-ons page” this afternoon. Out goes the old list of 11 recommendations and in comes a new list of 20
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