Month: January 2006

Why February 3rd? Well, that is the day the Nyxem virus is supposed to “go off.”

Nyxem Virus Set to Destroy on Feb. 3rd

“On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.

Nyxem is thought to have caught out many people by promising porn to those who open the attachments on e-mail messages carrying the virus.

Anti-virus companies have stopped lots of copies, suggesting it had infected a large number of computers.”

Files that will be deleted on infected systems are:
DMP – Oracle files
DOC – Word document
MDB – Microsoft Access
MDE – Microsoft Access/Office
PDF – Adobe Acrobat
PPS – PowerPoint slideshow
PPT – PowerPoint
PSD – Photoshop
RAR – Compressed archive
XLS – Excel spreadsheet
ZIP – Compressed file

So, be sure your virus signatures are up to date and hold on tight!

OK, so Kevin Mitnick and the like made phone spoofing “cool.” What is “phone spoofing,” you ask? Well, you can make a call, while appearing to be another caller (another line) and even charge it to that line. Now, you can do that AND change your voice to sound different as well… and it is a BUSINESS!

SpoofCard

What is the world coming to? What possible purpose (ligit, that is) could it serve?

Well, make it LOOK like a Mac, anyway. See Below:

Here’s Standard XP:

And here is “Mac” XP:



Read the “How To” here, and freak out your friends!

How to Turn XP into a Mac-look-alike

Red Hat has confirmed a rumor that they are working on a “dual boot” version of Red Hat Linux that will run a the new Apple MacBook Pro.

Red Hat Mac?

Sweet! I don’t know why… but “Sweet!” anyway!

Yahoo, Google… Google, Yahoo. Who is better at actual search engine dominance? Well, Yahoo has decided not to “play” anymore for the “honor” of top search site. Rather, they are re-directing thier efforts in other areas. How will this play out?

Yahoo Cedes Search to Google

We will have to see what this means in the long run… as Google is “diversifying” as well. But, I find it interesting that Yahoo is coming out and saying this!

WINE is a recursive acronym for “WINE Is Not an Emulator.” Linux and UNIX folks love doing that! What WINE allows a user to do is run Windows applications under Linux. It doesn’t work on all Windows apps, but it does for many… and it is getting better! But, could it possibly run FASTER on WINE than natively on Windows? Well, check this out!

WINE Runs Faster?

WINE impliments the Windows API under Linux… perhaps Linux coders have been able to do it better than Windows programmers. Either way, it is pretty cool!