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Want Firefox Installed on Your New OEM PC?
Well if the EU (European Union) has their way then you could have Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari installed by default on a newly purchased PC. The EU claims Microsoft is hurting the browser competitors by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows; you think? The other option is to force a hearing on the matter. Which way do you think Microsoft will go?
Source: PC Pro
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FTP viruses
F-secure has noticed a trend that more malware is being spread though FTP. As most can remember when viruses and other nasties were spread through email attachments, well that’s be fairly well defeated. Then came the drive-by-downloaders which use http to transfer the infectious payload, that’s been slowing down since browsers have evolved. Now though there is a new way to become infected, through trusty old FTP. How this happens is that a user receives a spam email with some links claiming they have an offer which can’t be refused and as we all know most really can’t refuse it. So the unsuspecting user clicks the link and a ftp connection to some bot-net controlled computer is initiated and some infected files downloaded. So now there is one more thing to scan for in your emails.
Stories from a Data Recovery Firm
Or Stupid people should own electronics.
Ontrack data recovery tells stories of the unusual and usually stupid ways people break stuff. Everything from a photographer spray insecticide inside his computer because of an ant infestation, to a scientist drilling a hole in his hard drive and pouring oil to stop a squeak in his computer. I thought scientist were supposed to be smart, I guess not. Then there’s the woman who washed a usd drive, I have to admit I’ve washed and dried the same usb drive not once but twice and it still works to this day. Then there’s the professional wedding photographer who overwrote someone’s wedding with another couples.
Source: ComputerWorld
Windows XP Service Pack 3
It seems that with XP’s newest service pack won’t only be a bug fix/patch release but will actually help performance. Using an Office benchmarking tool the Devil Mountain Software group have shown the new Service Pack to have as much as a 10% boost over Service Pack 2 and over twice as fast of the same test under Vista. One more reason to stick with trusty old XP a little longer. Just goes to prove that Vista’s biggest competitor is XP itself.
Source: TechSpot
