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Hey Freepers, you gotta keep those computers healthy, so I thought I'd post these links together for those of you without good spyware protection on your computer. These programs will clean your system out and get rid of a bunch of nasty little programs that have installed themselves on your PC over the years without your knowledge. This is a great combination of products (100% FREE!) that can deal a knockout blow to spyware and bad computer viruses. To eliminate spyware, use these. Ad-Aware 6.0: http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10319876.html?tag=lst-0-2 and Spybot Search and Destroy: http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2 If you don't have a good Antivirus program...

Russian fined for virus-writing exploits By John Leyden Published Thursday 18th November 2004 13:24 GMT A Russian member of well-known 29A virus writers group has been fined 3,000 roubles (approximately £57) after he admitted writing malicious code. Eugene Suchkov (AKA Whale), from the little-known Russian republic of Udmurtia, admitted writing the Stepan and Gastropod viruses. He posted live code for the viruses alongside the source code necessary to create variants onto a number of underground virus exchange websites. Neither of these viruses spread. The nickname Whale comes from the name of a virus rather than any reference to Suchkov's physical...

Internet hunting idea has wildlife officials up in armsHOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) -- Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.The Web site already offers target practice with a .22 caliber rifle and could soon let hunters shoot at deer, antelope and wild pigs, site creator John Underwood said on Tuesday.Texas officials are not quite sure what to make of Underwood's Web site, but may tweak existing laws to make sure Internet hunting does not get out...

Microsoft's Google-killer arrives with a 'whuh?' By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Friday 12th November 2004 12:01 GMT Google's executives might be sleeping a little easier this weekend after Microsoft unveiled its much-hyped new search engine. It's fast, slick, and comes with a raft of interesting new features: confounding some expectations as surely as it confirms others. In short, Microsoft has produced a search engine that's better in almost every way than Google, except for one: its search results are terrible. But let's start with the good stuff.Incredibly, MSN Beta Search trumps Google for speed: it's an order of...

I have written a book and have turned it into a PDF. I now want to sell it on eBay, but want to do so by making it downloadable (thus saving myself effort and the buyer shipping fees and time). I don't see any mechanism for making a file available for download by the buyer. Also, eBay help doesn't seem to address this possibility. Can I do what I want to do? Thanks.

U.S.A tops supercomputer list again!! #1 and #2 beating Japans "Earth Simulator". Topping the charts is IBM and the US Department of Energy's 'BlueGene/L DD2' beta system, at 70.72 TFlops, followed by NASA's 'Columbia' at 51.87.TFlops. Go USA!!!!!!

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A $100 million supercomputer being built to analyze the nation's nuclear stockpile has again set an unofficial performance record — the second in just over a month. IBM Corp.'s still-incomplete Blue Gene/L system, which will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved a sustained performance of 70.72 trillion calculations per second using a standard test program, the Department of Energy said Thursday. The world's current official leader, Japan's Earth Simulator, can sustain 35.86 trillion calculations per second using the same software. The announcement is the latest in a series of claims leading up to next...

Phishing for dummies: hook, line and sinker By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus  Published Tuesday 2nd November 2004 14:55 GMT Recent "phishing" episodes, and two new browser vulnerabilities, show how the bad guys are tricking people into exposing their passwords and bank accounts. Couldn't happen to tech-savvy users, right? Unless you consider how entire nations have been fooled.The art of faking out opponents in a clever, elegant, beautiful way is one that I find fascinating, and I cherish examples of that art. When looking through history for stories illustrating the deliberate use of distractions to obfuscate an intended purpose, I often return...

President Elect's first computer analysis of the 2004 presidential race predicts that if the election were held now, Republican candidate George W. Bush would defeat Democratic candidate John Kerry. According to the computer, which takes into account current poll data, past elections, and state voting tendencies, Bush would win 283 electoral votes from 31 states, while Kerry would win 255 electoral votes from 19 states and DC. If "on the edge" states are not included, the count is Bush: 205, Kerry: 183, toss ups: 150

Pop-Up Videos Hit Instant Messengers Sat Oct 30, 2004 By Leslie Walker It has come to this: Pop-up video attack ads on instant messaging software. The ads are part of a noticeable ramp-up in Internet political advertising that some Web sites report in the last days before Tuesday's election. Arlington resident Chris Stammer discovered the latest flavor of electronic attack ads when he signed onto his AOL Instant Messenger program last week and saw an image of Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) above his list of messaging "buddies." A video started in a pop-up window, showing the Democratic...

Gmail accounts 'wide open to exploit' - report By John Leyden Published Friday 29th October 2004 16:50 GMT Google's high profile webmail service, Gmail, is vulnerable to a security exploit that might allow hackers full access to a user's email account simply by knowing the user name, according to reports.The security flaw allows full access to users' accounts, with no need of a password, Israeli news site Nana says . Using a hex-encoded XSS link, the victim's cookie file can be stolen by a hacker, who can later use it to identify himself to Gmail as the original owner of...

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80 per cent of home PCs infected - survey By Thomas C Greene Published Tuesday 26th October 2004 19:59 GMT The Internet is well on its way to becoming one vast bot net, a survey by AOL and the National Cyber Security Alliance suggests.Researchers interviewed, and examined the computers of, 329 volunteers. They found that nearly all Windows PCs are infected with some form of malware, and that a majority of users are unaware of the simplest security basics, such as the difference between anti-virus software and a firewall, for instance. Most users had antivirus software installed, presumably because it's...

  Search US-CERT > Advanced Search National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-293A Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer Original release date: October 19, 2004 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT  Systems Affected Microsoft Windows systems running Internet Explorer versions 5.01 and later; previous, unsupported versions of Internet Explorer may also be affected Programs that use the WebBrowser ActiveX control (WebOC) or MSHTML rendering engine  Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) contains multiple vulnerabilities, the most severe of which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE.  I. Description Microsoft...

Ok all, I've got a computer problem on a new to me Laptop, a Compaq Armada M700, PII 366. It was working fine yesterday when I attempted to install Windows XP, unfortunately I only got 1/2 through it before the CD drive found a terminal scratch on my CD. The computer kept trying to go back to the CD install but could not get past the scratched CD. I opened the CD drive, removed the CD and attempted to shut the PC down. It kept asking for the XP disk and would not power down with the on/off button. I...

Home | FAQ | Contact | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe from Alerts Search US-CERT > Advanced Search National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Alert SA04-286A Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Excel Original release date: October 12, 2004 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT  Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Microsoft Internet Explorer Microsoft Excel, including Macintosh versions  Overview By taking advantage of one or more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products, an attacker may be able to take control of your computer.  Solution Apply updates Microsoft has released security updates for a number of products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, and Excel....

What are the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a non-Microsoft email client such as Eudora? What other options do you recommend? I already have abandoned IE in favor of Mozilla. Thanks.

A cyber attack that affected thousands of machines in Australia was launched from a Singapore computer, news reports said today. A Pacific Internet customer's server has been identified as the one turned into a rogue computer last month, hitting an Australian university computer network and affecting 10,000 machines, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) told The Straits Times. The regulator could not identify the attacker or his location and knew no motive for the attacks. It is believed the attacker probably gained control of the server without the knowledge of its owner or Pacific Internet, on whose network the server was...

I have been having trouble with spyware, and (thanks to people here) have downloaded and run Spybot S and D. It seems to have cleaned things up. Now, however, I have no hardware profiles. When I try to print, I am told I have no printers defined. When I use the "add printer" wizard, I get a message "operation cannot be completed." Also, I have no wireless capability, because I have no icon in the system tray for it (the one with two connected computers). Any help is appreciated. I am running XP Home. Thanks.

Thanks to everyone who helped on my previous post. I am running XP Home Edition, and was having trouble with spyware and getting onto IE. I have downloaded and run Spybot S and D, but now have another problem. A number of drivers are missing (even though I'm running in normal mode). Specifically, - I have no hardware profiles - I cannot print, because I have no printers defined, and the "add printer" wizard gives me a "operation cannot be completed" error message - I have no wireless icon in my system tray (the picture of the two connected computers)...