Category: News
Visual Studio Team System 2008 now available
For MSDN subscribers, you can now download VS Team System 2008 RTM on the MSDN site (x86 and x64 WoW – DVD). Have fun!
Seagate hard drives ship with virus
Interesting…an undisclosed number of Seagate’s Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games, such as World of Warcraft. Identified as Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah by Kaspersky Labs, the virus also deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well. The virus, which was loaded onto the Maxtor…
OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse
A company named Intego apparently found a malicious Trojan Horse that actually is harmful (OS X attacks and exploits were previously developed that lacked malicious power). According to Intego the Trojan Horse: …disguises itself as a video codec that offers access to a pornographic video…and users attempting to install the codec receive a piece of malware…
ICANN tweaks root DNS server
I read about it via The Register…ICANN set up a new IP address for one of the “root name servers,” and is retiring the old address, i.e., from 198.32.64.12 to 199.7.83.42. They’re apparently doing it for two reasons: For one, the old IP address wasn’t officially under ICANN’s control. But (two) more importantly, the organization wanted to…
Computer program detects author gender
I read an excerpt at the Nature website by Phillip Ball, wherein a computer program, developed by Moshe Koppel and his colleagues, can guess/tell whether the author [of a book] was written by a man or a woman. It’s algorithm (see below), says Ball, basically scans for keywords and syntax to accomplish this feat, and is surprisingly “around 80…
OS X Leopard upgrade for 10 bucks
Apparently, Apple will sell you the v10.5 upgrade for $10 if you purchased your Mac computer after October 1, 2007. I guess they [Apple] learned a thing or two from the sudden iPhone price drop recently. Too bad I bought mine before that time. Man! Go here for details.