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June 05, 2006 ISSUE 225
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl225.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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Letterbox ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/letterbo.htm ) -
A type of video format that allows a video with a different aspect ratio to be displayed on a display that does not support that aspect ratio. This is commonly done with DVD videos today to allow the user to view the movie as it was originally intended to be viewed and not modified to fit your television screen. A DVD that has this type of display will mention it's viewed in widescreen format. Some DVDs support both widescreen and fullscreen format, allowing the viewer to decide how they want to view it. Unless the DVD supports fullscreen format, it will only be viewable in widescreen.
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: Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
news.com.com -- Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite.
06/04/2006 - Alan Kotok, 64, a pioneer in computer video games, is dead
06/04/2006 - Toshiba touts data density record with new drive
06/04/2006 - Firefox Update Fixes 12 Security Bugs
06/04/2006 - Microsoft Drops PDF From Office
06/04/2006 - Robot Rep Goes to School
06/04/2006 - Asimov's First Law: Japan Sets Rules for Robots
06/02/2006 - AMD discloses plans for new products
06/02/2006 - Firms wary about holding customer records
06/02/2006 - Circuit City warns of online forum attack
06/02/2006 - Car theft exposes Hotels.com data
06/02/2006 - eBay tries e-mail in Net neutrality fight
06/02/2006 - Droids on the ISS
06/02/2006 - World of Warcraft passes 50 percent market share
06/02/2006 - Web users to 'patrol' US border
06/02/2006 - Hackers hit Swedish police site
06/02/2006 - 60 billion e-mails a day, much of it spam
06/02/2006 - Microsoft expects Adobe to file antitrust suit: WSJ
06/02/2006 - The time has come to ditch email
06/02/2006 - HP Hit With Funlove Virus Again
06/02/2006 - Phishing Scam Takes Aim at MySpace.com
06/02/2006 - Flaw Found in Windows XP, Server 2003
06/01/2006 - Mitsubishi unveils high-tech tabletop
06/01/2006 - New Ubuntu Release Available for Desktops and Servers
06/01/2006 - Sun Microsystems cutting up to 5,000 jobs
06/01/2006 - Oracle to acquire Demantra
06/01/2006 - Red Hat project brings open-source to digital media
06/01/2006 - Vista plays hide-and-seek with hackers
06/01/2006 - Extortion virus code gets cracked
06/01/2006 - The 100 Best Products of the Year
06/01/2006 - Windows Live OneCare Software Ships Early
06/01/2006 - No Google browser needed, users have good choices already
06/01/2006 - US$100 laptop gets a price increase
06/01/2006 - Apple Offers Free Computer Recycling for Mac Buyers
06/01/2006 - AOL e-mail delayed by software glitch
06/01/2006 - Finally! Bloglines Blog Search
06/01/2006 - Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
06/01/2006 - Yahoo Unveils Video Site
06/01/2006 - Half-Life 2: Episode One Now Available
06/01/2006 - Apple Named 'Hardware Company of the Year
06/01/2006 - F-Secure applies its own band-aid
06/01/2006 - India's Wipro acquires Enabler
05/31/2006 - Pew: Nearly 50 MM Americans Create Web Content
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1482006
Top News Story: Dell to try branded stores--sans inventory
news.com -- Dell plans to open two stores this year, but has no plans to abandon its direct-sales model, a company representative said Tuesday.
05/26/2006 - Sacred Heart Data Hacked
05/26/2006 - Google to Take 630 Summer of Code Projects
05/26/2006 - Barclays banks on antivirus deal
05/26/2006 - Earthlink to build New Orleans Wi-Fi network
05/26/2006 - Podcast lectures for uni students
05/26/2006 - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
05/26/2006 - Wozniak Honors Top Inventions Of 2006
05/26/2006 - Microsoft adds Ultimate edition of Office
05/26/2006 - Graphics Processors May Compute Sound - ATI
05/26/2006 - Gotcha: Where's My PC Card Slot?
05/26/2006 - Google releases Picasa for Linux
05/26/2006 - NBC News programs offered on iTunes
05/25/2006 - $100 laptop gets working prototype
05/25/2006 - 2 teens charged with MySpace.com extortion
05/25/2006 - Microsoft to invest 60 million dollars in South Korea
05/25/2006 - Researchers: Antivirus software has flaw
05/25/2006 - Google, Dell in computer tie-up
05/25/2006 - Microsoft: Take a week off--unpaid
05/25/2006 - Nanotubes Offer A Faster Flowing Fluid
05/25/2006 - Internet users in Myanmar face third day without connection
05/25/2006 - Google to shut down Orkut communities
05/25/2006 - MSN Spaces Now Largest Blogging Service Worldwide
05/25/2006 - Apple checks on Microsoft at WinHEC
05/25/2006 - Get Ready for VistaSpeak
05/25/2006 - Microsoft Advises Switching Word to 'Safe Mode'
05/25/2006 - YouTube Tops in Web Video Market
05/25/2006 - Yahoo, eBay Join Forces
05/25/2006 - MPAA accused of hiring a hacker
05/25/2006 - Honda says brain waves control robot
05/25/2006 - Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle
05/25/2006 - Invisibility cloak 'five years away'
05/25/2006 - Picture this: Microsoft's JPEG rival
05/24/2006 - The Great Woz Tells All
05/24/2006 - Hacking your Prius
05/24/2006 - Fastest Internet Ever Coming Your Way
05/24/2006 - Dutch gamer finds unwelcome fame with gaming movie
05/24/2006 - Morpheus makers file suit against eBay
05/24/2006 - Intel takes wraps off of Woodcrest
05/24/2006 - PGP creator offers VoIP crypto to Windows users
05/24/2006 - Jobster To Acquire (two month old) Jobby
05/24/2006 - Oracle unveils new version of open source BerkeleyDB
05/24/2006 - Newsmaker: My friend, the robot
05/24/2006 - Did spam filter cost schools $250K?
05/24/2006 - A car that slows you down
05/24/2006 - Researchers say semantic Web will drive Internet
05/24/2006 - AMD Winning Commercial Market Share
05/23/2006 - Google Set To Launch Video Advertising
05/23/2006 - Nike, Apple Team Up on iPod Running Gear
05/23/2006 - Experts Offer Advice to Prevent ID Theft
05/23/2006 - File-Sharing Firm Sues EBay, 21 Others
05/23/2006 - Martha Stewart plans online women's social network
05/23/2006 - Microsoft Releases Test Versions of Items
05/23/2006 - Invitation for 'silver surfers'
05/23/2006 - Mystery Robot Said to Solve Crimes, Find Mines in Chile
05/23/2006 - Viruses a greater problem than hacking: report
05/23/2006 - Computer Outage Strikes Montana Gov't.
05/23/2006 - Call to target UK software piracy
05/23/2006 - Police act on German file-sharing
05/23/2006 - Personal data on millions of US veterans stolen
05/23/2006 - MySpace seeks link with Google or Microsoft
05/23/2006 - Company Asks U.S. to Provide Radio Space for Free Internet
05/23/2006 - New Domain Name -- .Mobi -- Could Spur Wireless Web
05/23/2006 - SanDisk launches 'iDon't' anti-iPod campaign
05/23/2006 - Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod
05/23/2006 - Microsoft considers removing Admin access for employees
05/23/2006 - Global software piracy losses: US$3- or $34-billion?
05/23/2006 - The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment...
05/23/2006 - Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
05/23/2006 - Gecko-like robot scampers up the wall
05/23/2006 - Dell to try branded stores--sans inventory
05/23/2006 - Yahoo, Microsoft e-mail services suffer glitches
05/23/2006 - Trojan exploits unpatched Word vulnerability
05/23/2006 - Worm Attacks Yahoo IM Users
05/23/2006 - Schools crack down on inappropriate blogs
05/23/2006 - Google Tops Another Search Survey
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1412006
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:
HP Hit With Funlove Virus Again
pcworld.com -- Hewlett-Packard yesterday pulled a printer driver from its Web site after security vendor BitDefender reported that the software was infected with the same computer virus that infected HP's drivers more than five years ago.
Extortion virus code gets cracked
news.bbc.co.uk -- Do not panic if your data is hidden by virus writers demanding a ransom.
Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice
news.com.com -- Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite.
Researchers: Antivirus software has flaw
news.yahoo.com -- Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.
* Security:
Firefox Update Fixes 12 Security Bugs
cio.com -- Mozilla has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that fix a number of critical security flaws in the open-source products.
Circuit City warns of online forum attack
news.com.com -- Part of the Circuit City Web site was hacked and used in an attempt to install malicious code on PCs of unknowing visitors, the electronics retailer said Thursday.
Flaw Found in Windows XP, Server 2003
pcworld.com -- A new flaw found in Microsoft's software could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service attack on certain applications, although the bug isn't viewed as being severe.
F-Secure applies its own band-aid
news.com.com -- Security software maker F-Secure issued a patch Thursday for security flaws in two of its products, F-Secure antivirus for Microsoft Exchange and F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper.
Microsoft Advises Switching Word to 'Safe Mode'
pcworld.com -- Microsoft is advising people to run its Word application in "Safe Mode" to help guard against a Trojan horse that surfaced recently, though security experts on Wednesday said there still appears little cause for alarm.
* Privacy:
Car theft exposes Hotels.com data
news.com.com -- A seemingly random theft has led to another potential breach of personal data--this time name, address and credit card data from Hotels.com customers.
Phishing Scam Takes Aim at MySpace.com
pcworld.com -- A phishing site that harvested the login and credentials of MySpace.com users was removed as of Friday from a California server, a security vendor reported.
Sacred Heart Data Hacked
Internetnews.com -- Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni.
Personal data on millions of US veterans stolen
reuters.com -- Personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans was stolen from an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who took the data home without authorization, exposing them to possible identity theft, the department said on Monday.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Added additional questions and answers.
- Fixed minor issues with local news script.
- Posted updated version of search engine.
- Continued work on upcoming scripts and new features.
- Updated hundreds of pages throughout Computer Hope.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
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See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
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5. Hot computer issues.
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How can I find out another persons e-mail address?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000815.htm
How can I increase or decrease my mouse double-click speed?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000816.htm
How can I read / send e-mail in a telnet or SSH session?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000817.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
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See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
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http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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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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