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Archive for October, 2008

Microsoft OEM software piracy

Friday, October 31, 2008 4:14

Software trade group Business Software Alliance or BSA has revealed findings of its own study that found that for every 10 software products sold via the Internet, about four are pirated copies of original OEM software. The most usual victim of such piracy is of course, the most popular software ...

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Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:58

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Mapping your network drive

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 0:16

Moving files between computers on a floppy disk (the so-called "sneakernet") is a thing of the past. If you have more than one computer in your home, you can share files across your home network. ...

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Introduction to digital right management

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:04

Introduction Most people have heard of software licensing and pay per view television, but possibly not connected it with a development in technology called Digital Rights Management (DRM). To understand what DRM is trying to achieve you first of all need to understand intellectual property. Intellectual property To understand digital ...

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Financial institutions are prime target for phishers

Thursday, October 23, 2008 21:23

The phishing activities has been increased and many of the financial institutions systems hit by the phishers this year. There is a need to curb these activities and do a deep research to overcome. The financial sector's increased reliance on the Web for the delivery of banking and finance services, has ...

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Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch

Thursday, October 23, 2008 21:18

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch to fix an extremely critical worm hole that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks. The emergency update comes just one week after the regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday and follows the discovery of a targeted zero-day attack, Microsoft said in an advisory.   The ...

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Installing firefox on linux

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 21:02

Getting Firefox installed on your computer is your first step to using it. The below reading will show you how to install Firefox on Linux. Many Linux distributions include Firefox by default. Some distributions include IceWeasel, which is a version of Firefox with the Firefox trademarks removed. Most Linux distributions have a ...

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Configuring AVG security for firefox

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 20:59

AVG Internet Security is a software package for Microsoft Windows. It includes a firewall component, which controls which programs can access the outside world. If AVG Internet Security is not set to fully allow Firefox, Firefox will be unable to connect to web sites and may generate "Server not ...

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Symantec announced 2008 partners award

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 20:56

Symantec Corp.  today announced the 2008 North American Partner Award winners at Symantec Partner Engage 2008. The Symantec Partner Awards recognize channel leaders for their success in partnering with Symantec to help joint customers protect their information-driven businesses. These organizations have invested in expanding their knowledge of Symantec solutions to ...

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Microsoft will start beta testing for vista

Monday, October 20, 2008 20:49

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will start beta testing the next service pack update for Windows Vista in coming weeks. The update release will be SP2 for Vista, the operating system which has started fairing well. Familiar sources cited that testers have received invitations to beta test Windows Vista Service ...

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Hackers exploit financial crisis to gain benefit

Monday, October 20, 2008 20:41

The Federal Trade Commission urged Internet users to be on guard against e-mails that look as if they come from a financial institution that recently acquired a consumer's bank, savings and loan, or mortgage. "In fact, these messages may be from 'phishers' looking to use personal information -- account numbers, passwords, ...

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Phony email from Microsoft is a Worm

Monday, October 20, 2008 20:36

There is an email making the rounds which appears to be from "Microsoft Corporation Security Center" with a subject line of "Internet Security Update". The email has an attachment which the email describes as being the "1 Mar 2002 Cumulative Patch" for IE.  The attached file is typically named "Q216309.exe". There is no such patch from ...

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