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August 18, 2003 ISSUE 119
C O M P U T E R H O P E . C O M N E W S L E T T E R
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl119.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Em space ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/emspace.htm ) -
Space width unit of measurement for the space character that is typically the size of the capital M.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story: Internet attack taunts Microsoft founder Bill Gates
* cbc.ca -- A new computer worm is spreading over the Internet, exploiting a flaw in the Windows operating system.
The U.S. government and various Internet experts say the worm does not appear to delete files or cause permanent damage to computers. But it has knocked many computers offline. It has not affected computers based on non-Microsoft operating systems
08/12/2003 - Microsoft to pay $521 mn in IE patent case
08/12/2003 - Internet attack taunts Microsoft founder Bill Gates
08/12/2003 - Microsoft shaves 20 percent from Office for Mac
08/12/2003 - Google Announces Corporate Search Customers
08/12/2003 - Iomega Readies Removable Hard Drives
08/12/2003 - Mars closest in 60,000 years
08/12/2003 - AOL pleads for name change
08/12/2003 - Many Bluetooth gadgets open to wireless snooping
08/12/2003 - 3-D Printing's Great Leap Forward
08/12/2003 - Gateway delays release of handheld
08/12/2003 - Google release 2.0.95 toolbar
08/14/2003 - Microsoft abandons Outlook Express
08/14/2003 - Blaster Worm Confounds Home Users, Variant Emerges
08/14/2003 - Europeans to get Windows music store
08/14/2003 - Apple agrees to some OS X refunds
08/14/2003 - Experts: Web attack may hit Microsoft Saturday
08/14/2003 - Smart chips making daily life easier
08/14/2003 - Microsoft Gears Up to Launch Project Software
08/14/2003 - Overture Licenses Contextual Ad Technology
08/14/2003 - Flash drive maker adds boot feature
08/14/2003 - Google adds math answers
08/14/2003 - Indian Teenage Hacker Spurns Jobs for Studies
08/14/2003 - Copycat Version Of MSBlast Worm Already On The Loose
08/14/2003 - Future XBoxes Will Use ATI Graphics
08/14/2003 - Power outage hits East Coast
08/14/2003 - No back doors for CIA in our code: Microsoft
08/14/2003 - HP, Hitachi to offer disaster recovery services
08/14/2003 - AMD Tapped for Gov. Linux Clusters
08/14/2003 - HP wins suit in gray market clampdown
08/15/2003 - Utah firm will build the world's third fastest supercomputer for Los Alamos Laboratory
08/15/2003 - Cirrus Logic says settles dispute with Nvidia
08/16/2003 - Microsoft.com falls to DOS attack
08/16/2003 - Microsoft kills Net address to foil worm
08/16/2003 - GNU Servers Hacked, Linux Software May Be Compromised
08/16/2003 - Blaster Worm Racks Up Victims
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2222003
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
pcworld.com -- The Blaster worm -- also known as MSBlast or LoveSAN -- has hit at least 330,000 machines around the world, according to Symantec, which has been tracking the spread of the worm since it first appeared.
zdnet.com.com -- As part of its effort to stop the progress of the MSBlast worm, Microsoft is killing off the Windows Update address that the self-propagating program was set to attack.
story.news.yahoo.com -- Home computer users got blasted by the Internet "worm" called Blaster on Wednesday as they struggled to apply a fix that office technicians handled easily, even as several experts said a new variant had emerged.
* Security:
Internetwk.com -- In mid-March, someone hacked the primary file servers hosted by the GNU Project, the group which supports the development of many of the components in the Linux operating system, the group acknowledged Wednesday. It warned that the attacker may have inserted malicious code into the free software available for download, including Linux, and posted a set of hashes that users can check against to determine if what they retrieved is clean.
* Privacy:
theage.com.au -- Microsoft has scoffed at suggestions its software contains back doors for use by United States intelligence services as the Australian government signed on for access to the source code behind Windows.
Computer Virus information can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/vlist.htm
Computer Security Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/secureqa.htm
Computer Privacy Q&A can be found at:
http://www.computerhope.com/privacyq.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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* Uploaded version 1.6 of our search engine. This new version of our search engine includes the below fixes and additions.
- New feature that automatically forwards a user to a Computer Hope document if they type its identification number. For example typing "CH000500" into the search will now automatically forward you to that document.
- Improved the Artificial Intelligence section of the Search Engine. There were issues that existed with the Artificial Intelligence giving improper advice for searches.
- Corrected search algorithm issue. This issue caused searches that contained large amounts of results to be fully displayed and not sorted through using the sort algorithm.
- Updated search index parser to help sort data better.
- Corrected various other minor glitches with some of the searches.
- Updated Computer Hope news section with new features and fixes.
- Updated Dictionary section.
- Updated Computer dictionary submit word tool to help eliminate the potential problem of people submitting words that already exist in dictionary.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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Users who need additional information and help with the worm blaster, mblast, W32.Blaster.Worm, Worm_mblast.a, and Win32.Posa.worm can find information though our web page at the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/vinfo/blaster.htm
How do I clear my address bar history?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000511.htm
Cannot Delete File: File System Error (1026).
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000368.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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http://www.kensington.com/html/3720.html
This week we came across the Kensington WiFi Finder, a great idea for any users who find themselves looking for locations where they may be able to gain access to a wireless network. A great idea and product, Kensington claims this to be the only WiFi detector on the market today.
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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