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Adobe categorizes this as a critical update and recommends AFFECTED users upgrade to version 10.0.22.87.

Release date: February 24, 2009

Affected software versions
Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier (Adobe Flash Player 10.0.15.3 and earlier for Linux)

Adobe recommends all users of Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier versions upgrade to the NEWEST version 10.0.22.87 by downloading it from the Player Download Center, or by using the auto-update mechanism within the product when prompted.

For users who cannot update to Flash Player 10, Adobe has developed a patched version of Flash Player 9, Flash Player 9.0.159.0, which can be downloaded from the the following link.Thanks for keeping us updated. I've updated the System INFORMATION script to reflect these NEW updates.I'm always afraid of updating that darn thing...Quote from: Broni on February 24, 2009, 10:47:52 PM

I'm always afraid of updating that darn thing...

From
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Microsoft-Bungles-Severance-Asks-Laid-Off-Workers-for-Money-Back/



In what appears to be a clear sign of the times, Microsoft is reportedly asking laid off employees to return portions of their severance pay that the company apparently overpaid.

TechCrunch has an item stating that Microsoft has contacted some of its former employees and is asking them to repay the software giant for overpayment on severance DUE to the company's own miscalculations. INDEED, the report said that not only has Microsoft apparently overpaid some of its former employees' severance, but the company also underpaid some of its recently laid off workers.

TechCrunch displays a copy of the letter Microsoft reportedly sent out to affected parties. The document reads: "This letter is to inform you that an inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft. We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you."

Microsoft last month announced plans to lay off up to 5,000 employees, INCLUDING 1,400 the company let go on Jan. 22. If this issue of miscalculated severance pay is an indication of Microsoft's handling of its initial round of layoffs, then folks in future rounds have cause for concern. More cause, that is, than being laid off -- as asking an unemployed person to return PAYMENT is truly adding insult to injury.

Yet, it is not clear how many people were asked to pay money back to Microsoft. Though, according to TechCrunch, "it wasn’t a single isolated incident..."

The recession has TAKEN its toll on even the mightiest of technology companies. Companies such as Microsoft and IBM -- bellwethers of the technology sector -- have taken hits and suffered embarrassing exposures such as this reported severance issue.Can't they just use Chrome? They'd have to buy google first to make it legal-like...

Yea, well There would be millions of papers in a shredder too so how would you find the pieces you wanted?

Yea so if you really have high-sercrecy documents just use a good shredder...

What's wrong with burning?

I'm just trying to picture someone going through he shredder's trash bin...carrying all those pieces of shredded paper to their desk...and then scanning them.

Just thinking about it makes me lmfao...

Oh, and Kurtiskain, i signed your petition and agree fully.

Give everyone the Passwords or got to jail!
Does that SOUND weird. I thought is is should be like this:
"Reveal passwords to outsiders and wind up in jail."

Instead, so we are told, the San Francisco Network administrator was told by his superiors to give the passwords to a group of MANAGERS, attorneys and policemen in a room.
He refused. He went to jail.

That was back in JULY. Just now he has made a comment on the case, but is not allowed to give details.
Hard to believe? Just do a Google on
Terry Childs
I'm not going to google it...who's PROSECUTING him and why ? ?This is actually an old story, or is still ongoing. It's a case of this admin thinking only he knows how to operate this network, which is partly true because from what I remember he has it booby trapped so nobody else can access it without crashing the network, which is a San Francisco City Network.

He sees it as "his" network.

The city of San Fransisco is prosecuting him. It was in local papers last summer. He has been in jail these months and just now told part of his side of the story.

They claim he tampered with the new network system the city set up. He is thier administrator for the network. Several officials he locked out of the system. Some time back he had an issue with them. They wanted to fire him, but his contract terms, somehow, made it hard to do. The say his was unproductive.

Now the strange thin is he was arrested because he would not give up the passwords. Odd, he tampered with the system so you would think they would make a case based on the tampering. So the say, he tampered the system, but arrested him for not revealing the passwords to a crowd of people.
Most of the newspaper articles paint him as a 'roue' and show him as the bad guy.How does an under productive employee get the keys to the system?

But my thought is why would they put so much trust in just one person? Did not the city fathers know what they were doing when they hired this man and gave him so much power? They need to arrest some more people in City Hall for some reason. Maybe it should be a crime for City administrators not to know something about computers.

PCWorld has covered this story. Hare is the latest:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/159717/accused_rogue_admin_terry_childs_makes_his_case.html
he's being paid to keep the network running for the city. It doesn't make it his. I imagine it's mostly hubris on his part watching all these city workers go about their networking tasks as if it's all completely automated, completely ignoring his contribution. Doesn't justify it though.

And if it's true that they arrested him because of refusal to give passwords, I don't see what that falls under? the tampering would definitely be against the law, but at the same time what tampering?

Who else thinks there is a small chance that these people he supposedly "locked out" simply forgot their password, and got chuckled at by the admin since it was the third time that week that they needed their password reset...One of the old articles mentioned that there have been other admins like him. They become so protective of the network that they won't let anybody else access it.

Imagine letting a 5 year old fire up your brand new build and start downloading torrents. Not gonna happen right? That's how these guys feel about their network...

Recieved an e-mail from my TechNet SUBSCRIPTION TODAY....
As part of the Windows 7 BETA testing team you qualify for a FREE copy of Vista.
I already have Vista so i qualify for Office Ultimate 2007 instead.

Nice to get a pleasant suprise now and then...WHAT! Nice!WAIT, how do you get that?Patio, If you don't want it, can I have it?

How much does this cost?
Google PowerMeter will be free. We hope to work with as many utility companies as possible to deliver this data to anyone with a smart meter.

Recently, I've been working on two computers, where all Firefox searches were getting redirected.
Apparently, IE is not affected.
Both computers were checked through Superantispyware, Malwarebytes, Smitfraud tool, and AVZ.
Whatever infections was there, got removed (it wasn't much).
I thoroughly checked HJT LOG, and all Autoruns entires.
Totally nothing suspicious was there.
I was going nuts.
Redirection was still there.
Making a long story SHORT, this is what I discovered.
There is really nasty JavaScript worm out there: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2008/01/javascript-worm-still-spreading-infection-origin-unknown.ars
Starting with ver. 6 update 10, Java automatically installs (UNLESS you opt out) Java Quick Starter Firefox add-on.
Once Java Quick Starter is DISABLED, and Firefox restarted, redirection is gone.
Apparently, Java Quick Starter is prone to the above worm.

Said that, I'd strongly recommend, everyone uninstalls Java Quick Starter.
To do so....
Go to Control Panel, double click Java. In the Java control panel, click the Advanced tab. Click the + sign in front of Miscellaneous and uncheck the Java Quick Starter box to remove the add-on.
Google the search term google.goored.com

This has been around since at least December and there is a custom tool for fixing it.

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Java Quick Starter (JQS)

JQS is enabled by default in Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems and is not necessary on Windows Vista as Vista offers its own pre-loading mechanisms. A process called jqs.exe will run in the background in order to allow quick statup. jqs.exe will be loaded after a Windows restart. Instructions on how to disable the JQS and the jqs.exe process are below.

http://java.com/en/download/help/quickstarter.xml

Thanks evil. I found that fix, GooredFix

Along with other reported problems and glitches with this latest Update from MS i've found out it also installs to Firefox without asking and with no opt out offered....

On top of being quite aggravated at this tactic i suggest staying away from this update until further notice.

patio.

Full Story including Removal Info

As always whenever making Registry changes be sure to create a proper backup beforehand.I got the 3.5 SP1 update when it was released, and got a nasty surprise when I saw that extension.
I Googled and MANAGED to remove it, so far it's not made a reappearance.
To say the least, I was not impressed.This update also has a tendency to break Automatic Updates...did that happen in your case ? ?Didn't cause any problems with me at all, other than the Firefox extension.
If by Automatic Updates you mean the actual automatic way, as in Windows installing updates without my intervention, I don't use it anyway, I update when I want to, so I wouldn't know if that was broken in fact.Gotcha...people who have it enabled have reported no longer being to get auto updates and in a few INSTANCES have failed the verification tool process...
What a mess...Sounds serious ... if I'd realised there were so many problems I'd never have installed it, I'd have been too worried.
Just sounded like a routine update, so I didn't research it.
May have to leave this update out when I reformat, I might not be spared the wrath of Microsoft next time.Well- I have the framework installed from my install of Visual Studio 2008- and I never noticed anything like this. Must be with the redistributable, I suppose...


Ooops... Nevermind- I don't have the SP, that's probably why.

thanks for the heads-up, Although since installing a SP to .NET takes hours were almost any other SP takes a few MINUTES, I wasn't really planning too. But I will now avoid it for the time being. I haven't looked around to see for sure but I think it's related to IE8 because it was LISTED along with the IE8 Release Candidate. Now, let's make something clear.
We're talking here about 3.5 SP1, right?
I have 3.5 (no SP1) listed in "Programs & Features", and I don't see any extensions installed.That would be my guess- I have .NET 3.5 and don't have any extensions/plugin.Correctamundo...Hmm, I installed it in my Vista notebook PC on 1/30/09. I'm not aware of any adverse effects or anything different in Firefox. What, exactly, is it that may appear in Firefox as a result of installing it?

And, as I recall, I've had automatic updates notify me of updates, mainly Windows Defender, since I installed .NET 3.5 SP1.

New click and fix SITE by MS.

Think Kelly's Korner or Doug Knox.

http://support.microsoft.com/fixitThey are putting an AWFUL lot of resources into this from what i've read....
Let's hope they get it right.Interesting, but how can I find anything there, if things are not even in alphabetical order?
I can IMAGINE, how it's gonna look, when it grows.
Beside, I don't believe, M$ will come up with something SMART enough.

Sounds good but reading the article is sort of alarming. We haven't seen the worst malware yet.

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The Zlob Trojan, which was the one of the most, if not the most, active Trojan displaying advertisements and installing Rogue anti-spyware programs, is no longer under development. This Trojan was responsible for promoting and installing rogue anti-spyware programs onto millions of computers. In a a message found encoded in one of their Trojans, we learn that the Zlob author is closing down shop and moving on to other malware projects such as shellcodes and rootkits. Though this is good in terms of rogue programs, it does not bode well for future malware that we will see coming from this, unfortunately, talented programmer.

In October Microsoft wrote about discovering an encoded message in the Zlob Trojan directed towards them by the malware author. This message stated:

I want to see your eyes the man from Windows Defender's team

Recently a group of French malware & security analysts have analyzed a newer variant of the Zlob Trojan and found another message encoded in the file. This message contains a farewell message from the author and information about the projects he will be involved with in the future.

For Windows Defender's Team: I saw your post in the blog (10-Oct-2008) about my previous message. Just want to say 'Hello' from Russia. You are really good guys. It was a surprise for me that Microsoft can respond on threats so fast. I can't sign here now (he-he, sorry), how it was some years ago for more SERIOUSLY vulnerability for all Windows Happy New Year, guys, and good luck! P.S. BTW, we are closing soon. Not because of your work. :-)) So, you will not see some of my great ideas in that family of software. Try to search in exploits/shellcodes and rootkits. Also, it is funny (probably for you), but Microsoft offered me a job to help improve some of Vista's protection. It's not interesting for me, just a life's irony.

Over the years, I have had EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE with rogue anti-spyware programs, and I can tell you that Zlob was one of the first Trojans of its kind. It used techniques for displaying ads and fake alerts that at the time were unheard of, and though they were not always the most difficult to remove, they were so AGGRESSIVE in pushing out new versions that it was hard to keep track of them. For example, the rogue called SpywareQuake, in a 2 month period, had over 50 different variants of Zlob advertising it. Below I have included a list, in chronological order, of most of the Rogue anti-spyware programs that were promoted via the Zlob Trojan.

I love generators....... QUOTE from: evilfantasy on February 02, 2009, 07:00:22 PM

to bad the series has gone down hill, the originals were so great

Hackers HACK Comcast tv during the SUPER Bowl and put in a 30 second porn clip

Poor kids will be taught about the birds and the bees a little sooner.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487066,00.html

Admin edit: Fixed link.Linkie no workie.... Quote from: kpac on February 03, 2009, 02:39:01 PM

Linkie no workie....

my DSL AVERAGE speed is about 384KBps, but thats great, since im still using the same DSL router since 2003. and its been great, but i should probably get a replacement soon, since i had Bellsouth(they were the ones that offered the DSL service) and Bellsouth was bought out by ATnT, so a replacement might be in order in a year or two.avg speed for me about 10,000 kbps- Cable.nice, im guessing one of the Motorola Cable routers?My connection now:


My connection early last DECEMBER:
Quote from: macdad- on February 01, 2009, 04:22:35 PM

nice, im guessing one of the Motorola Cable routers?

Quote from: macdad- on February 01, 2009, 04:22:35 PM

nice, im guessing one of the Motorola Cable routers?

Why, you must be psychic!

Quote from: BC_Programmer on February 01, 2009, 05:09:45 PM

Quote from: macdad- on February 01, 2009, 04:22:35 PM

nice, im guessing one of the Motorola Cable routers?

Why, you must be psychic!

nah, i just know its a common Cable router, and since its Motorola, you probably have Comcast, dont you?
and just to tell you my friend has the very same thing, so yea im not psychic.

not everything on wikipedia is accurate.the syntax is similar, but not only to C and C++, but a cazillion other LANGUAGES that use the semicolon for a statement separator).

My REFERENCE was more towards the object based nature of java- C doesn't have a concept of an object at all (although you can fake it with virtual function pointers in a struct) and bothy C/C++ use pointers quite a lot, almost encouraging them. Java doesn't have pointers at all- and implements automatic cleanup. Although VB6 uses the reference counting facilities inherent in COM, while java uses Garbage collection, neither one provides the ability to use and reference values via pointers (although with some clever messing avbout with rtlMoveMemory, long variables and objects you can force VISUAL Basic 6 to let you... although it's dangerous ground to experiment in, since if VB will often crash without careful planning as to the POSITIONS in code where the object pointers are manipulated... anyway... where was I?


To be blunt- nowadays, C# is a heck of a lot like Java, and I have a nagging suspicion it is really what Microsoft turned J++ into after the Sun lawsuit.yes i was just saying the syntax is related, not the ENTIRE language is related to C

from http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/01/28/Monster-gets-hacked-again.aspx?Page=2


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For the second time in as many weeks, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft. This time the target was leading employment Web site Monster.com, which hosts millions of resumes. The news followed the annoucement last week of a breach at Heartland Payment SYSTEMS.

The company reported on Friday that hackers apparently accessed its customer database. They illegally accessed and stole an unspecified number of Monster.com user IDs and passwords, names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

The hackers MAY have used a modus operandi similar to the one used against Heartland, observers said. The Monster.com hackers didn't get credit card information, but the stolen information could be used to abet a credit card scam.

For instance, in 2007, antivirus software giant Symantec described an automated and malicious Trojan-horse program that it dubbed Infostealer.Monstres. The bug was used to hack into Monster.com employer accounts and cross-reference that data to some 1.6 million Monster.com users.

Monster's wholly-owned subsidiary, Monster Government Solutions, provides solutions for federal, state and local governments as well as the education sector. Some of the sites Monster Government Solutions hosts include USAjobs and military.com. More than 6,000 government agencies and educational institutions use Monster Government Solutions.

Security experts now contend that with Monster.com getting hit twice in less than two years and Heartland being gaffled (or ripped off), the biggest infraction here could be apathy AMONG certain ENTERPRISES.

"It's not the lack of capability, it's the lack of will," said Phil Lieberman, president of security application and service company Lieberman Software. "Monster is a typical example of a gen-y company striving for comfort instead of a business advantage through security."

Lieberman noted that this incident was the first time that Monster.com had publicly announced such a theft. A previous data theft at Monster.com was disclosed by the British media. He recommended that Monster.com implement compartmentalization of its critical and not-so-critical information assets.

"This is gross incompetence, and what I would ask is, who were the auditors and security consultants working with Monster? That's a problem, too," he said. "There's no money in the cure but there's PLENTY of money in the treatment, and even though it generates revenue and billable hours, it doesn't solve the problem. This is clearly what happened here."

For its part, Monster.com has sent notices to their users indicating that their databases were illegally accessed. However, the company didn't reveal how and why the breach may have occurred or how many records were stolen.

Experts say the Heartland and Monster.com breaches are just the beginning of a trend.

For its part, Monster.com has sent notices to their users indicating that their databases were illegally accessed.

from http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Internet+Business&articleId=9126997&taxonomyId=71&pageNumber=2

it's about time!

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Want to know if you're actually getting what you're paying your Internet service provider for?

If you are, join the club. The problem is that it it has been far from easy to get a handle on how your service provider deals with various kinds of traffic. That may become an easier job now that Google Inc. is launching what it calls Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open system that researchers and consumers can use to access its new Internet performance measurement tools.

"Researchers are already developing tools that allow users to, among other things, measure the speed of their connections, run diagnostics, and attempt to discern if their ISP is blocking or throttling particular applications," said Vint Cerf, Google's CHIEF Internet evangelist, and Stephen Stuart, Google's principal engineer, in a blog post. "These tools generate and send some data back and forth between the user's computer and a server ELSEWHERE on the Internet. Unfortunately, researchers lack widely-distributed servers with ample connectivity. This poses a barrier to the accuracy and scalability of these tools."

To tackle the problem, Google announced late on Wednesday that it will host the tools on 37 servers in the U.S. and Europe. The tools are designed to help users try to figure out what might be impairing their broadband speed, as well as find out if BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled by their Internet service providers.

"Seems like the intention behind this is to give consumers a way to keep tabs on their provider and make sure that they're getting what they're paying for in terms of speed," said Dan Olds, an ANALYST at Gabriel Consulting Group Inc. "Also, with these tools, consumers will supposedly be able to tell if particular high-bandwidth applications, like BitTorrent, are being constrained by their ISP. So if an ISP is limiting video downloads, for example, consumers can use the Google tool, figure it out and start a huge outcry, putting pressure on the ISP to stop."

Just last month, an analyst with ties to the telecommunications industry released a report calling Google a bandwidth hog. Scott Cleland, president of Precursor LLC, a research firm bankrolled by telecommunications heavyweights such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., reported that Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for.

Google was quick to fire back. Richard Whitt, Google's Washington telecommunications and media counsel, noted in a blog post that Cleland is "not exactly a neutral party." Whitt also claimed that the analyst had made methodological and factual errors.

Olds noted that the new measurement platform is another SALVO in the war between content providers such as Google and network providers.

"This Google tool is a way for consumers to keep their providers honest, but it also serves to further Google's interest in keeping bandwidth limits at bay," he added. "This gives consumers a way to pressure ISPs who try to limit individual bandwidth -- like secretly limiting your account because you download 10 movies a day and giving me my full bandwidth because I don't. There's only so much bandwidth to go around. They can either build more capacity, which they hate to do, or try to put limits on the extreme high users."

from
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127051&intsrc=hm_list


Cramming ever more TRANSISTORS into CPUs has not troubled chip makers Intel Corp. and AMD Inc. The problem, rather, has been how to handle the extreme heat generated by the movement of so many electrons in such a tiny space.

With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100 degree Celsius and greater chips, makers stopped trying to raise processor speeds several years ago and moved to building multi-core CPUs instead.

Gamers and performance fanatics responded by usingwater, liquid nitrogen and other exotic liquids to cool their overclocked CPUs.

And it's not just overclockers pushing the envelope. AMD has gotten into the act, this month enabling its new Phenom II desktop processor to run at a record 6.5 GHz by cooling it with liquid nitrogen. And liquid cooling is even gaining interest from the far-more-conservative server and data center crowd.

However, the danger of mixing liquids with electronics remains, despite containment efforts.
Chip cooling's next generation

Now, a more elegant solution is on the horizon. Researchers at Intel, RTI International and Arizona State University have developed a micro-refrigerator that can be easily mounted on chips to draw heat from hot spots with surgical precision.

That would allow these nano-scale (10 micron) systems to be smaller and use less electricity than CONVENTIONAL heat sinks, fans or liquid setups, said Dr. Rama Venkatasubramanian, a senior researcher at RTI and a co-author of a paper published this month in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology.

The refrigerator in your kitchen uses a mechanical heat pump to compress and circulate a coolant liquid that absorbs heat inside the fridge and dissipates it outside.

The micro-refrigerator is quite different. It is a super-thin film MADE from thermoelectric molecules such as Bismuth telluride and Antimony telluride.

Thermoelectric materials such as these convert heat into electricity. In other words, "you're using electrons to pump heat away," Venkatasubramanian said.

Venkatasubramanian and the other researchers have been able to reduce heat on a simulated CPU by 15 degrees Celsius. But he is optimistic that by using more thermally-conductive materials on the silicon chip, such as improved solder or even carbon nanotubes, the micro-refrigerator could help cool a chip by as much as 40 degrees Celsius.

Such a drastic reduction would allow a chip to run faster or a chipmaker to cram even more transistors onto single or multiple cores.

Another advantage of a micro-refrigerator would be its efficiency. Each COOLER would be targeted at hot spots on the rear of the chip and use only between 2 and 3 watts when active.

A SOCIAL networking site operated by the 2008 Barack OBAMA presidential campaign is serving up malware to unwary VISITORS a full week after the tactic was reported, a security researcher SAID today.

http://www.starlite-media.com/blog/2009/01/27/hackers-exploit-obama-site-to-spread-malware/

Quote from: Broni on January 20, 2009, 04:55:32 PM

If you have IE6, there is no uninstall option in Add\REMOVE.

that explains it. and you can only fully remove it in Windows Component Wizard.
and im glad i have IE6

Quote from: macdad- on January 21, 2009, 04:11:43 PM

that explains it. and you can only fully remove it in Windows Component Wizard.
and im glad i have IE6

why?

Quote from: BC_Programmer on January 21, 2009, 07:00:16 PM

Quote from: macdad- on January 21, 2009, 04:11:43 PM

that explains it. and you can only fully remove it in Windows Component Wizard.
and im glad i have IE6

why?

in comparision to v5 and v3

Apple today released QuickTime 7.6 to fix at least seven serious security flaws that EXPOSE Mac OS X and Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

he latest upgrade, available for Mac OS X v10.4.9 - v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 and SP3, covers vulnerabilities that could be exploited via malicious URLs or booby-trapped MOVIE or audio files.

This new model has been named PRESENTATION Pro and it comes with a laser POINTER and an integrated BLUETOOTH remote control.

The device also comes with up to 32GB of storage accessible through USB connectivity.

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Motorola unveiled a cell phone made of recycled water bottles on Tuesday, hoping to cash in on the trend for environmentally friendly products.

Motorola said it was the world's first carbon neutral phone. As well as using recycled materials for the plastic casing, the company also pledged to offset the carbon dioxide used in manufacturing, distribution and operation of the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation.

I just wouldn't want mine to smell like garbage....

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New Phishing Attack Targets Online Banking Sessions With Phony Popups
'In-session phishing' the LATEST Web-based method for phishers to steal users' banking credentials

Jan 13, 2009 | 12:30 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

Researchers have discovered a SOPHISTICATED, new method of phishing that targets users while they are banking online -- SENDING phony popup messages pretending to be from their banks.

The so-called "in-session phishing" attack prompts the victim to retype his username and password for the banking site because the online banking session "has expired," for instance, via a popup that purports to be from the victim's bank site, according to researchers at Trusteer, which TODAY published an advisory (PDF) on their findings about the potential for such a phishing attack.

It doesn't show up if you are logged in I don't think.



I've never seen it. When did you see it? Can you see it now?It shows up on a lot of the pages but I think I saw it here first. http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/It's for google book search...I don't know. It's coming up in my regular searches also. http://www.google.com/search?q=Computer+Hope&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-aI guess it helps to check the Google blog. It's a USER submission that they liked.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.html

1/09/2009 01:35:00 PM
Back in June, we rolled out a new favicon — the small icon that greets you when you access Google on your URL bar or your bookmarks list — and we encouraged our USERS to submit their ideas for this important PIECE of Google branding. We were impressed by the volume of submissions we received, and today we are happy to introduce a new Google favicon inspired by those submissions by our users. While the final icon is a reinterpretation of one contest submission, it draws on design elements and ideas from many of them.I don't see *censored* thing.
Can you post a screenshot?I see it

Uploaded a screenie for you Broni.

I didn't add red circles though

You can see it on the tab and by the ADDRESS bar

[attachment deleted by admin]Try clearing your Cache.

Me, I still have the old G icon. I use a GREASEMONKEY script.
(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27548)Click Here...

Note the favicon in the address bar...Oh, yeah, I know what happened. I have GreaseMonkey script for keeping old Google favicon...Shame on you.....shame, shame.I'm little bit conservative, sometimes It's on every Google page for me...It's on most Google pages for me too, I actually like this one. There last one they changed too didn't agree with me at all but this one looks pretty good.

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Feature summary
- 1TB SSD in 2.5-inch form-factor (highest density ever at 2.5-inch)
- 300MB/s SATA II interface
- Industry-leading PERFORMANCE
- State-of-the-art industrial design
Specifications
- Capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1024GB
Performance
- Transfer rate: 300MB/sec
- Sustained READ: 240MB/sec
- Sustained write: 215MB/sec
- Random read (IOPS 4K): 50,000
- Random write (IOPS 4K): 10,000
- Latency < 100 µsec
Reliability
- MTTF: 2.0 million hours
Environmental
- Temperature (operating): 0°C to +70°C
- Temperature (non-operating): -45°C to +85°C
- Shock (operating): 1500G, duration 0.5ms, half sine wave
- Vibration (operating): 20G peak, 10~2,000Hz, x3 axis
Power
- Active: 4.8W typical
- Idle: 0.1W typical
Physical
- 2.5in form factor: 100.2mm x 69.85mm x 9.5mm

Add up to 48K of user installable RAM

128 color variations

$1000

Finally, I had a chance to go to Circuit City today.
Complete waste of time.
I looked only at computer prices.
They offer 10$% (!!) off, of really high prices.

I was actually looking for new laptop, and I got one at Best Buy - Compaq PRESARIO CQ60-215DX for $449:
# AMD® Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor QL-62
# 2GB DDR2 RAM
# 250GB 5,400RPM Hard Drive
# LightScribe SuperMulti 8x DVD±R/RW with Double LAYER Support
# 5-in-1 Digital Media Reader
# NVIDIA GeForce 8200M
# 10/100 Network
# 802.11b/g Wireless Network
# 15.6" High Definition BrightView Display
# Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

Circuit City wanted for the very same laptop $510 (after discount).
Micro Center - also $449, but after $130 mail-in rebate from two different sources, Best Buy had a straight price.I think I wil wait untill the sale is almost over.My family got a bunch of good deals when our local store closed (in the first wave of closes). Everything was 50 to 90% off.

Of course, they probably raised the prices before starting the sale, so everything looked like a good deal to us consumers, but what the heck?asked a EMPLOYE there why with the low discounts and heres what he had to say.
"We had it originally at higher discounts before we announced bankrupcy but then we lowered the discounts to make it worth it...."

THATS just greedy

Alright, got one word for that woman.

FAIL!

Dell should hire her instead of sending their Lawyers...that'll teach Her.

That is indeed an

EPIC FAIL

Forget the screen, look at the size of that thing.

I didn't realize they've gotten so small.
Looking at the guys fingers, how do you type on that keyboard.....

http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-01/handheld-computer-first-pc-organic-screenWow. That's impressive. It would be more impressive to see him typing on that, I have trouble typing on netbooks, I can't imagine the words I'd be making up on that thing.Just tape a few STYLUS's to your fingers...you get used to it.I don't really like portable computing, especially when it's taken to the extreme.
Need to write notes? Pen and paper, and I'll write it up when I get back to a real computer instead of destroying my fingers, thumbs and nerves, not to mention my eyes, by SQUINTING at a tiny screen and tapping minuscule keys.
I have a Blackberry smart phone - not because that's what I wanted, but because I liked none of the other phones on offer when I got my contract, they were too flashy/shiny/annoying. I cannot understand how people use these all day long for emails, IM conversations, etc. I store the occasional memo, if I don't have a notepad handy and I need to tap something in there and then before I forget. Other than that, the only features I use are the phone/SMS apps, a GAME, and once in a while the camera.
If I was given a handheld computer, even one that could do everything a desktop could, and I couldn't sell it, it would most likely never be used.Completely agree, Calum.i agree with you calum i got a freking phantec matrix and its got 2 keypads a numaral and a keybord and it annoys me that the keys are soo tiny because it hurts, soon there gonna make phones the size of a antQuote from: tylerisdabest on January 13, 2009, 08:06:56 PM

soon there gonna make phones the size of a ant

i agree with you calum i got a freking phantec matrix and its got 2 keypads a numaral and a keybord and it annoys me that the keys are soo tiny because it hurts, soon there gonna make phones the size of a ant

bc every time i see u in a post u seem too get madder and madder

An interesting statement from their last MacWorld Expo:

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At Apple's FINAL keynote address to the Macworld faithful today, the company made an announcement that should change the way MUSIC is purchased from now on—roll it back to the old, better way, I mean. Apple will no LONGER put DRM code on its iTunes music files.

And what pray tell would acc be ? ?

So... to discover where all these rumours came from about Superfetch... I googled "superfetch sucks".


lol

you'll never guess at the misinformation.

http://www.vistadiscuss.com/windows-vista-superfetch-technology-sucks/2006/09/

I don't think a single statement in there is factual.Quote

why do some say 128MB for Win9x and 256 for WinXP? does that mean Windows XP is worse then WIN 9x?

why do did people say 128MB for Win9x and 256 for WinXP? does that mean Windows XP is worse then win 9x?

Every single Windows version USES more RAM, than the previous one. Are you SURPRISED?
Vista wants 2GB of RAM. Period. If you want use less, use some other OS.

Win 7 is advertised as requiring 1GB

# 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
# 1 GB of system memory
# Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)

# 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
# 1 GB of system memory
# 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
# Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
* 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)

256MB, or maybe even 128MB.

say, did I mention I ran XP with 32MB of RAM?

Instead of focusing to improve Vista, Microsoft has more important things to do....

HTTP://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/27/2010244if you ask me it would be cheaper just to BUY the softwareWould be a lot cheaper in a lot of cases to just buy the software. I couldn't imagine a scheme like this working with PLENTY of free alternatives (e.g. open office). It could however potentially work in a school of office environment since purchasing a multi-user LICENSE is quite expensive.anything you see on slashdot that talks about microsoft should be taken with a grain of salt.seems like a cheap way to cover themselves for the lost PROFIT from vista, poor saps.

I wonder if they'll make it so you can install Windows 7 over Windows XP, but have it so your current Windows XP is transformed into the Virtual XP in Windows 7.....Hmmmm.....

But it's hard to get two OS's merged into one natively I suppose.

With Windows 7, 'Genuine' is out; 'Activation' is in

Microsoft will be changing to name of it’s activation and validation system from “Windows Genuine Advantage” to “Windows Activation Technologies” according to a report by Mary-Jo Foley.

However, the “Genuine” brand isn’t completely disappearing. A press release states that Microsoft will continue to deliver genuine updates and notifications for XP users. The program has been criticized for its punishment tactics and false-positive results, even though Microsoft has fixed some of these problems in Vista SP1.

According to Microsoft, Windows 7’s activation will be built on the same software protection platform that was part of Vista, with some minor tweaks made for Windows 7.

“In Windows 7 we modified this process: When customers choose to activate later they will see a dialog box highlighting how activation helps them identify if their copy of Windows is genuine and be allowed to proceed immediately without a 15-second delay. In Windows 7 we’ve made changes so that users will see more informative notifications messages and be able to more easily complete the tasks they need to.”, said Joe Willians, general manager, Worldwide Genuine Windows in a Q&A session.

What happened when it was all gone? Did he owe money?