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May 24, 2004 ISSUE 150
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/nl150.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 viruses, worms, 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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CF ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/cf.htm ) -
Short for CompactFlash, CF is a 50-pin connection storage standard device. CompactFlash is generally found in PDA's as well as Digital Cameras.
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: Comcast Turns On Microsoft TV
story.news.yahoo.com -- Microsoft's vision of the TV of the future takes a step forward with a deal that could bring advanced TV controls into the homes of 5 million or more Comcast cable subscribers.
05/18/2004 - FBI investigating Cisco source code leak
05/18/2004 - New Mars rock hints at short-lived lakes
05/18/2004 - Lycos Europe launches 1 GByte email
05/18/2004 - Police 'need more e-crime skills'
05/18/2004 - Funds sought to aid virus writer
05/18/2004 - New expression for virtual city
05/18/2004 - Patch critical OS X vulnerabilities
05/18/2004 - Beware! BMP files may contain a new virus
05/18/2004 - Transmeta to add antivirus feature to chips
05/18/2004 - DoubleClick Acquires Performics
05/18/2004 - Sony Bets on Blue Lasers
05/18/2004 - FCC OKs WiFi between TV channels
05/18/2004 - Camera Phones Link World to Web
05/18/2004 - Teen Techies Engineer the Future
05/18/2004 - Online Grocery Shopping, Take Two
05/18/2004 - Computer nerd morphs into security ace
05/18/2004 - Checking the Gadget Pipeline
05/18/2004 - Movers and thinkers
05/19/2004 - Smart homes offer a helping hand
05/19/2004 - Is Google Now Offering 1 Terabyte For Gmail Storage?
05/19/2004 - Cometa Says Will Shut Down Wi-Fi Business
05/19/2004 - Online church smites sinners
05/19/2004 - Founder And Apple To Deliver iTunes Digital Music Jukebox
05/19/2004 - Calif. Bill Requires 'Spyware' Notice
05/19/2004 - Gateway ends outsourcing deal with ACS
05/21/2004 - Symantec Eyes Enterprise with Brightmail Buy
05/21/2004 - $5M Moon Rock Stolen From Malta Museum
05/21/2004 - FBI plans spammer smackdown
05/21/2004 - Oracle joins Microsoft developer program
05/21/2004 - Don't Tell the Kids: Computer Games Can Make You Rich
05/21/2004 - News: Intel Sued for Patent Infringement
05/21/2004 - Napster 2.0 Goes Live in the UK Today
05/21/2004 - My Left Arm for a Gmail Account
05/21/2004 - Google, Microsoft Take Battle to the Desktop
05/21/2004 - E-Mail 'Phishing' Scams Soared in April -Report
05/21/2004 - Comcast Turns On Microsoft TV
05/21/2004 - Is Torvalds really the father of Linux?
05/23/2004 - Google embarks on a crusade against malware
05/23/2004 - Oxfam launches download service
05/23/2004 - PC Sales Up--For Now
05/23/2004 - Suits over Linux tests muddy backwater of copyright law
05/23/2004 - Secure E-Mail Specs Could Merge
05/23/2004 - New Web Structure Promoted
05/23/2004 - CCTV goes wi-fi to fight crime
05/23/2004 - Over 50s urged to catch net bug
05/23/2004 - Judge orders Microsoft to search its systems
05/23/2004 - Apple issues Mac OS X security patch
05/23/2004 - Google's desktop bet
05/23/2004 - Clubbers choose chip implants to jump queues
05/23/2004 - Gates backs blogs for businesses
05/23/2004 - Microchips to save Peru's alpacas
05/23/2004 - China Trying to One-Up Technology World
05/23/2004 - Symantec Warns Of Flaw In antivirus Program
05/23/2004 - Answering the E-Mailer's Essential Question
05/23/2004 - Study says 100 million PCs to be replaced in 2004
05/23/2004 - Woman jailed for Net baby sale
05/23/2004 - Now, two-thirds of all e-mail is spam
05/23/2004 - Army Scientists, Engineers develop Liquid Body Armor
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1372004
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
Transmeta to add antivirus feature to chips
news.com.com -- Chipmaker Transmeta is working to make its microprocessors capable of protecting computers from virus and worm attacks, the company said Monday.
Beware! BMP files may contain a new virus
kaspersky.com -- Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer has detected a mass mailing of a new Trojan named Agent. Agent infects victim machines when users view graphics in BMP format.
AOL touts its virus-blocking stats
zdnet.com.com -- America Online says it's blocked more than 1 billion virus-infected e-mails since launching a screening program in April 2003.
Wallon worm uses Yahoo, IE flaw to spread
computerworld.com -- antivirus software companies issued warnings and software updates yesterday and Tuesday for a new worm, Wallon, that uses deceptive Web links to Yahoo.com to trick users into downloading malicious programs.
* Security:
Symantec Warns Of Flaw In antivirus Program
story.news.yahoo.com -- Symantec Corp. is warning its customers about a security vulnerability within its antivirus application. The Internet security vendor ranks the flaw as "medium," while security research group Secunia pegged the flaw as "moderately critical."
Apple issues Mac OS X security patch
news.com.com -- Apple Computer on Friday issued an update to Mac OS X to address flaws that security firms said could allow malicious code to be run on a Macintosh.
Russian site says Cisco code may have leaked
smh.com.au -- Source code for some versions of Cisco's IOS has probably been stolen by an individual who broke into the company's corporate network, a Russian security news portal has reported.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
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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* Computer Hope recently experienced a hardware failure with one of its main computers. With this issue and new updates being performed we were unable to release last weeks newsletter.
- Posted updated versions of free online help section, mail systems, and introduced a much easier to use chat service. All these features will help enable users to find or get their questions even easier.
- Posted open beta version of our word converter tool. ( http://www.computerhope.com/wc.htm )
- Posted 2.0a version of search engine and updated search index.
- Posted several new dictionary definitions and new questions and answers.
- Performed other minor updates.
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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POST troubleshooting steps.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000607.htm
How do I change network settings from MS-DOS?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000608.htm
How do I restore Windows XP back to an earlier copy?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000589.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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* We would like to thank all of our users participating in our forums we have already broke 1,000 users this month.
http://www.royaltek.com/proditem.asp?group=consumer&item=gpsmouse&filename=Gmouse\rgm2000.asp
This week we came across the Sapphire, an extremely small mouse (5cm) that can be used with laptops, PDA's, and almost any other device capable of accepting USB. This would be great for any users who need a small mouse while on the road.
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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