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May 26, 2002 ISSUE 65
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/nl65.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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VxD ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/v/vxd.htm ) -
Short for Virtual Device Driver, a VxD is a software file that that acts as buffer between a hardware device and software programs. This helps ensure that all software programs needing access to a hardware device do not conflict with each other.
See a complete dictionary of computer terms 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: Microsoft changes software options
* Microsoft Corp. is disclosing how it will let users of its latest Windows software effectively replace its own e-mail, Web browser and instant-messaging tools with rival programs. The action was required by Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement with the government.
- Six arrested over 'Nigerian e-mail' fraud
- Internet hogs may pay more for broadband
- Amazon test mail-order catalog listings
- Comcast sued over Internet data gathering
- Global Crossing purchase talks end
- Microsoft changes software options
- Patent laws give startup a leg up
- Bell, Torvalds usher next wave of supercomputing
- Optus details new plans
- 7-Eleven puts Net shopping in stores
- PocketPC gets connected with Earthlink
- Microsoft, Verizon team on MSN services
- Linux makes news with Reuters
- Probability of alien life rises
- "Myst" adds twist to online gaming
- Dell trims 150 jobs in Ireland
- Radio ID Tags: Beyond bar codes
- Netscape 7.0 rekindles browser battles
- Taiwan develops new optical disc
- U.S. Army invades game business
- IBM builds tiny transistor
- IBM hits a chip milestone
- Kazaa music swapping firm to fold under weight of lawsuits
- Paid content comes to Kazaa
- New international Internet performance record set
- AOL cuts jobs in ad sales group
- Kazaa worm adds sour note to file swaps
- Open-Source fight flares at Pentagon
- IBM begins layoffs
- Sun launches Solaris 9, touts integrated features
- AT&T CFO to step down
- Microsoft announces security bug in its debugger
- Dell move into printers would roil market
Find all of the above articles and latest news at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer Virus, Security and/or privacy threats
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* Virus:
- Computer Hope: Last weeks newsletter contained information about a virus hoax. Unfortunately this information set off several e-mail protection systems and firewalls and blocked several of our subscriber's newsletters. If you did not receive your newsletter last week it is likely that this could have been the reason. You can find an online version of our newsletters at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newslet.htm
We have also posted additional information about this hoax on the following page:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000480.htm
- CNET: A new computer worm targeted at users of Kazaa's popular file-swapping system infected PCs in Germany, Mexico, South Africa and the United States this weekend.
Posing as popular song and movie files, the Benjamin worm aims to infect Kazaa users' PCs by tricking them into downloading a phony media file to their computer and opening it.
* Security:
- Computer World: A security hole in the application used by Microsoft Corp. operating systems to debug programs while they are in use could allow an attacker to take control of applications running on affected systems, Microsoft said in a security bulletin yesterday.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms02-024.asp
* Privacy:
- Newsbyte: A multimillion-dollar privacy lawsuit on behalf of customers of Comcast's broadband Internet service has been filed in a federal court, according to the plaintiff's attorney.
The litigation seeks compensation for the approximately one million Comcast Internet customers nationwide whose Web surfing habits were tracked by the Internet service provider earlier this year, according to Steven E. Goren, a partner with Goren & Goren, the Michigan law firm handling the case.
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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- Posted 75+ definitions for 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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How to resize a MS-DOS maximized window.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000020.htm
CD-ROM only detects audio CD's.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000132.htm
Windows 95 does not support hard drives over 32GB.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000276.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://labs.google.com
This week we are back talking about Google. As many may already know Computer Hope really enjoys Google (http://www.google.com) as a search destination. This week we came across the Google Labs, which offers Google employees and Google users to play with possible future technology and ideas. The Google Labs currently offers four new demos, the Google Glossary, Google Sets, Voice Search, and Keyboard Shortcuts. These demos offer several new search capabilities that we really enjoy. While still in development we highly recommend you try these demos.
The above items as well as other new and innovative services and technologies can be found on our What's Hip section on our News page at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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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