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July 18, 2005 ISSUE 195
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl195.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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IFIP ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/ifip.htm ) -
Short for International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP was founded in 1960 and is a organization for the field of computer information processing and information technology.
The official IFIP page can be found at http://www.ifip.or.at
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: IBM officially kills OS/2, suggests switch to Linux
theinquirer.net -- BIG BLUE has hammered the final nails into OS/2's coffin.
It said that all sales of OS/2 will end on the 23rd of December this year, and support for the pre-emptive multitasking operating system will end on the 31st December 2006.
07/16/2005 - Google balances privacy, reach
07/16/2005 - Internet provides instant Harry Potter reviews
07/16/2005 - Laptops Are Hot; Maybe Too Hot
07/16/2005 - Blogging + Video = Vlogging
07/16/2005 - Groklaw publishes SCO execs' e-mails on Linux patents
07/16/2005 - Potter fans warned to beware of online fraudsters
07/16/2005 - Walmart.com Web site backup after lengthy outage
07/16/2005 - Worm spells double trouble for PCs
07/16/2005 - Microsoft Urges Developers to Prepare for IE 7
07/16/2005 - Windows flaw could spawn DoS attacks
07/16/2005 - Amazon Turns Ten
07/16/2005 - Pioneering Another Technology First, PBS Launches NerdTV
07/16/2005 - Internet Audio Craze Spurs a Land Grab
07/16/2005 - Computer games 'do have benefits'
07/16/2005 - UK 'could become hi-tech titan'
07/16/2005 - Dell Closes Longtime Customer Message Boards
07/16/2005 - Hackers attack Mozilla site to spread spam
07/16/2005 - IBM officially kills OS/2, suggests switch to Linux
07/16/2005 - Yahoo cements UC partnership
07/14/2005 - Cisco warns of security flaws
07/14/2005 - HP gears up for layoffs, reorg
07/14/2005 - Microsoft, Marvel ink online game deal
07/14/2005 - Verisign buys security researcher iDefense for $40M
07/14/2005 - Firefox gains on IE in June
07/14/2005 - Technologies 'to aid the poor'
07/14/2005 - Endurance test for robot Humvee
07/14/2005 - Public tests new version of Flash player
07/14/2005 - Microsoft patches IE, Word, Windows
07/14/2005 - Microsoft presses pedal on in-car software
07/14/2005 - Consumers choose Blu-Ray over HD-DVD
07/14/2005 - Firefox Update Focuses on Security, Stability
07/14/2005 - Sharp develops display that shows different images from right and left
07/12/2005 - High costs deter hi-tech dreams
07/12/2005 - Virus plays on terror attacks
07/12/2005 - Study: Number of Zombie PCs Jumps
07/12/2005 - Dutch file-swapper case collapses
07/12/2005 - Microsoft unveils keyboard for Media Center PCs
07/12/2005 - ICANN approves ".mobi" domain
07/11/2005 - Cellphone Numbers Overtake Land Lines
07/11/2005 - Cell phone links disabled in New York tunnels
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1912005
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:
Worm spells double trouble for PCs
news.com.com -- A double-edged
threat that attempts to hijack PCs has surfaced in at least three variants, security companies warned on Friday.
Virus plays on terror attacks
pcpro.co.uk -- Security companies are warning of an email virus, which plays on the public need for information on the terror attacks on London.
* Security:
Potter fans warned to beware of online fraudsters
computerworld.com -- On the heels of a study showing that nearly 10% of U.S. Internet users have lost money to an e-mail scam, comes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in the series, due out at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Odds are that a career online scammer is working on a legitimate-looking e-mail pitch offering the opportunity to buy the book online.
Windows flaw could spawn DoS attacks
news.com.com -- A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP could let an attacker remotely crash computers.
Microsoft patches IE, Word, Windows
computerworld.com
-- Microsoft Corp. has released three software updates that patch critical security flaws in its products, including a patch for an Internet Explorer vulnerability first reported last week. The company also released patches for Microsoft Word and for a feature of the Windows operating system used by a number of applications.
Study: Number of Zombie PCs Jumps
betanews.com -- Zombie PCs, or computers that have been infected with software that allows the machine to be used to spread viruses and software, have increased at an astronomical rate in the last quarter according to research by antivirus company McAfee.
* Privacy:
Hackers attack Mozilla site to spread spam
theregister.co.uk -- Hackers attacked a site promoting Firefox last weekend in order to commandeer it to send spam, the Mozilla Foundation said on Friday. The attack was limited to community marketing site SpreadFirefox.com. In a statement, the Mozilla Foundation said the unspecified security vulnerabilities
were exploited to mount the attack.
Find a direct link to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?1912005
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Working out issues with new mail system.
- Added and updated several dictionary definitions
- Added new script to generate Top10 pages and give better information about how much a page has increased or decreased in statistics. This script will allow us to generate this information automatically and give us time to focus on other things.
- Continued work on other scripts and 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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My Windows System Idle Process is high.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000729.htm
Error loading operating system.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000730.htm
How to clear saved Internet web page passwords.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000731.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://primotechnology.com/index.php?art=articles/0705/optimus/index.htm
This week we came across the Optimus OLED keyboard. This is a fantastic idea for new type of keyboard that uses a OLED display to display whatever the user wants on each key. This means a user could easily display any language characters or graphic on each of the keys. Although this product is still in the concept phase we can't wait to see this in the future and recommend reading the above Primotech review.
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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