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Trend Micro, a security solutions provider, claimed that they have found a Trojan that is very much capable of exploiting your BlackBerry smartphone. The Trojan called Zeus seems to target specifically the SMS feature of the Blackberry. Basically a Trojan, sometimes referred to as a Trojan horse, is a non-self-replicating malware that appears to perform a desirable function for the user but instead facilitates unauthorized access to the user's computer system. In this case it’s a cell phone. The Trojan maybe in the form of an application, once installed sends a confirmation message to the hackers that transmitted the Trojan, to signal that it is ready to receive commands. Once the Trojan sender or the hacker sends a confirmation message, the Trojan can view, delete and forward SMS’s, block calls, change the administrator on the device and block phone numbers. It sends all data on the phone to the hacker in the event that it gets shut down.

Earlier attacks by a similar Trojan were seen on Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems. Mr Amit Nath, Manager of Trend Micro India and SAARC said, "As more users access the Internet from the expanding pool of devices, web-based threats will continue to grow in size. The growth of smartphones and faster data speeds will also increase the possibilities of infection. As criminals devise ways to make money out of exploiting mobile technologies, mobile users will grow extremely vulnerable."

Now is a good time to get those antivirus softwares for you cell phones people, and be sure to not install uncertified applications.

Why should web designers start looking at HTML 5 and what are the advantages it can bring to our work? In this short blog post we run through a few of the many advantages we can gain from latest incarnation of HTML.

Improved Code

HTML 5 will enable web designers to use cleaner, neater code, we can remove most div tags and replace them with semantic HTML 5 elements.

Greater Consistency

As websites adopt the new HTML 5 elements we will see far greater consistency in terms of the HTML used to code a web page on one site compared to another. This will make it far easier for web designers and web developers to immediately grasp how a web page is structured even if they are brand new to it.

Improved Semantics

As the elements used to code a web page are standardised, using the new HTML 5 elements, the semantic value of every web page will increase. As it will be easy to see which parts of the page are headers, nav, footers, aside, etc. and most importantly know what their meaning and purpose is in a machine readable format.

Improved Accessibility

With HTML 5 it should be possible for assistive technologies to expand on the features they can offer their users as they can immediately build up a more detailed understanding of the structure of a page by looking at the HTML 5 elements it contains. Could this spell the end for skip links?

Audio And Video

The new video and audio elements make this really easy. Most of the APIs are shared between the two elements, with the only differences being related to the inherent differences between visual and non-visual media.

Both Opera and WebKit have released builds with partial support for the video element. You may download the experimental build of Opera or a recent nightly build of WebKit to try out these examples. Opera includes support for Ogg Theora and WebKit supports all the formats that are supported by QuickTime, including third party codecs.

The simplest way to embed a video is to use a video element and allow the browser to provide a default user interface. The controls attribute is a boolean attribute that indicates whether or not the author wants this UI on or off by default.

[video src="video.ogv" controls poster="poster.jpg"
width="320" height="240"]
[a href="video.ogv"]Download movie[/a]
[/video]

The optional poster attribute can be used to specify an image which will be displayed in place of the video before the video has begun playing. Although there are some video formats that support their own poster frame feature, such as MPEG-4, this provides an alternative solution that can work independently of the video format.

It is just as simple to embed audio into a page using the audio element. Most of the attributes are common between the video and audio elements, although for obvious reasons, the audio element lacks the width, height, and poster attributes.


Download song

HTML 5 provides the source element for specifying alternative video and audio files which the browser may choose from based on its media type or codec support. The media attribute can be used to specify a media query for selection based on the device limitations and the type attribute for specifying the media type and codecs. Note that when using the source elements, the src attribute needs to be omitted from their parent video or audio element or the alternatives given by the source elements will be ignored.

[video poster="poster.jpg"]
[source src="video.3gp" type="video/3gpp"
media="handheld"]
[source src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg;
codecs=theora, vorbis"]
[source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4"]
[/video]
[audio]
[source src="music.oga" type="audio/ogg"]
[source src="music.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"]
[/audio]

For authors who want a little more control over the user interface so that they can make it fit the overall design of the web page, the extensive API provides several methods and events to let scripts control the playback of the media. The simplest methods to use are the play(), pause(), and setting currentTime to rewind to the beginning. The following example illustrates the use of these.

There are many other attributes and APIs available for the video and audio elements that have not been discussed here. For more information, you should consult the current draft specification.

Here's how can view and work on your own desktop from any corner of the world.

The first thing you should know is the ip-address of your PC.Then the user and password of the account of the PC you want to access.

IP Address can be found out by going into StartMenu->Run

Type cmd

Then type ipconfig

Now Goto My Computer Properties->Remote(Tab)->Check both the check boxes given there->Apply->Ok

Goto Start Menu->All Programs->Accesories->Communication->Remote Desktop Connection

Enter the computer as the IP-ADDRESS,username of the PC and password.

Then Click Connect.

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Tips:

If you want to connect to your PC with only a username and with no password.

Then

Goto StartMenu->Control Panel->Administrative Tools-> Local Security Policy->Local Policies->Security Option->Accounts:Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only->Disabled

Now connect Remote Desktop without password.

You are done with it............Enjoy

When you are making some changes to your system settings, wouldn’t it be great to see what is actually changing in the registry? This would be really helpful when the changes you have made doesn’t work as expected and you want to reverse the changes but can’t without actually editing the registry.

Here is how you can track what exactly gets changed in the registry.

1. Start Regedit
2. Select the top level (Computer).
3. On the menu select File>Export and save the file to any location. However, I would recommend saving the file to root of any drive (C, D etc). You can name the file ‘before’.
4. Make any change to your system.
5. Go back to Regedit and press F5 to refresh it.
6. Repeat step 3 and export the registry once again and save it in the same directory as before. This time name the file as ‘after’.
7. Open up a DOS window (Command prompt)
8. Go to the drive/directory where you saved the two exported file.
9. Enter the command fc before.reg after.reg > diff.txt.
10. The output file (diff.txt) will contain the changes made to the registry.

If you took the first steps in a radical new technology only to be superseded by someone on the lines of mere reach and power, you’d want to win back that power. Way back when we were playing Pacman in our school labs Marc Andreesen saw a similar story written for him. He made his first browser ever – Mosaic, before heading to build the then famous Netscape Navigator only to see it get piped by Microsoft’s IE.

However, tech streams are now abuzz with reports of Andreesen, now an investor and startup adviser among many other things getting his hands behind a new browser. Andreessen is backing a startup called RockMelt, staffed with some of his close associates, that is building a new Internet browser. There are plenty of options availabe really if you want to go beyond the big four among browsers actually, but when the father of web browsing renews his interest in the field that he essentially created, you’d be interested very much.

The premise of this new adventure is the fact that browsers these days are essentially better versions of an existing skin, means they have not kept up with the changing web. And therefore, if one is creating a browser from scratch,t here would be a lot many things that would be done differently from what is conventional. In many ways Andreesen thinks Rockmelt is doing these different things.

According to Andreesen browsers don’t quite match up to the need of changing web habits influenced by sites like Twitter, Facebook, et al. He should know, he is after all ont he board of Facebook. Which brings us to the other aspect of the Rockmelt.

Readwriteweb claims it is the Facebook browser and offers a number of tidbits on that front. Though there has been no official word on it, it can very well be true and put the limelight squarely on Facebook. And that’s a huge move for a web publisher.




The implications on both counts are really high, on one hand there is a brilliant team developing what can perhaps change the way browsing happens and on the other Facebook can perhaps have towering presence among those fighting for extending their ubiquity on the web and beyond. A lot of questions then begin to find ground, and hopefully they will get answered when Rockmelt comes out of its stealth state.

Before getting into the actual process, let’s look at a couple of real-world situations that explain why you may want to turn your home computer into a web server.

Situation #1. Say you have music MP3s, documents and other important files on the hard drive of your home computer. If you turn this home computer into a web server, you will be able to access all these files from office or any other Internet connected machine including your mobile phone.

Situation #2. You have some personal photographs that you want to share with other family members. You can either upload these pictures online to a site like Flickr or better still, just convert the computer into a web server. Now you can connect the camera to the computer, transfer the digital pictures to some designated folder and they’ll instantly become available to your friends and family anywhere in the world.

Situation #3. You want to host a website on the internet but the web hosting jargon like FTP, DNS, etc. is way too complex for you. The workaround therefore is that you setup a web server on your home computer (it’s easy) and then host a website in seconds without spending a single penny on external web hosting services.

Now if any of the above reasons look convincing enough, here’s how you can convert your Windows, Mac or Linux PC into a web server in less than two minutes - no technical knowledge required.

Go to labs.opera.com, download the Opera Unite software and install it. Congratulations, you are now running a web server on your machine and just need another minute to configure local file folders that you want to share with others over the internet.

Here’s an illustrated screenshot of the configuration panel - nothing technical here again.

Start the Opera Web browser (yes, that’s also you web server now) and enable the Opera Unite service from the lower left corner. Now double click the File Sharing link and select the folder whose content you want to share on the web. Any file or folder inside this folder can now be accessed over the internet - you can either use a public URL or specify a password for private sharing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omonwFkkrY

The following screencast video has more detailed instructions on how to get started with Opera Unite or you may refer to the User Guide if you get stuck somewhere.
Opera Unite looks pretty useful but there are other services around that can also do pretty similar stuff. For instance, both PurpleNova and Dekoh Dekstop enable users share content on the Internet directly from the hard drive without having to upload it anywhere.

Update: It’s important to note that your computer must be in running state and also connected to the Internet for others to download files and web pages since Opera Unite streams content directly from your machine - it doesn’t upload or caches anything to its own servers.

While there are dozens of online services and software tools out there that help you download videos from YouTube for offline watching, you don’t need their help anymore for downloading your own videos from YouTube.

That’s because Google now allows all video publishers to export their own video clips out of YouTube in MPEG-4 (MP4) format - you can directly play these downloaded in iPod or other video players without conversion.

To download any of your own videos from YouTube, go to My Videos -> Uploaded Videos and look for the "Download as MP4" button next to your video clips as shown in the above screenshot.

This is useful for offline backup of your video or even if you are planning to copy (or even move) videos from YouTube to another video hosting service but don’t have access to the source video files.

The only downside is that these video clips have a 480×270 resolution so they won’t match the quality of your original 720p HD videos.

Microsoft Corp in a quest to provide complete security to its OS users would soon be launching its own antivirus app Code named-‘Morro’. Microsoft also informed that the early version of the product is currently tested by its employees and would soon make a beta product available online before going for a launch at the end of 2009

Anti-virus app ‘Morro’ would provide full–time protection from several types of malicious software including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans .Although many are terming it as stripped down version of earlier shelved Live OneCare.



This news assumes significance as this antivirus would be completely free and would provide higher level of security due to close knit approach with Windows OS.Microsoft may be able to provide a great solution due to control over anonymous usage statistics of millions of PC’s.

This has sound alarms for commercial Anti-virus companies like Symantec,kaspersky and McAfee, earning majority of their revenues by protecting Windows PCs all these years. These companies also has significant presence in enterprise security market and attracts huge revenues from it.

Microsoft through this initiative is trying to ramp up confidence amongst its customers, at the same time opening up a new revenue stream in future.The move may be late timed but indeed serve great purpose for users craving about better anti-virus integration in windows OS.

The standard Google Translation service is pretty good for translating documents that exist on the web but if you ever need to translate Word files that reside on your local hard drive, the translator toolkit will come in handy.

It’s an online service where you can upload Word Documents or text files and translate them from one language to another instantly.
The document formatting is more or less preserved and you can download the translated files to your desktop in their original format like Word, OpenOffice or HTML. Unlike regular Google Translation which is read-only, here you also have the option to edit the translated version of the document in the browser itself.

The only condition is that the size of these individual documents, that you intend to upload for translation, should not exceed 1 MB.

http://translate.google.com/toolkit/docupload

Suppose you are sitting in a public place like a cafeteria or in the airport and working on your laptop. You feel like having a cup of coffee. What do you do? You will be away only for a few seconds so you don’t want to carry it along. But then, could you leave your laptop lying around and hope that it would still be there when you return back with your coffee? This is a very common but difficult situation.

However, there is one tool that could help you in situations like these. Laptop Alarm.



Laptop Alarm is a free software tool that monitors unusual behavior when you’re away, setting off an alarm whenever it detects a possible theft. Laptop Alarm sounds an alarm whenever your laptop’s power cable is unplugged, the mouse is moved, or the laptop is shut down. This can be enough to deter a thief from running off with your laptop

Download Here:-

http://www.syfer.nl

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Most of you would be aware of the usual places to look for programs that are auto-starting – such as the Startup folder itself and the Run and RunOnce registry keys. Using MSCONFIG.EXE we can examine the components that execute from these locations.

However, there are numerous other components and locations to be aware of, including:

IE Browser Helper Objects
Scheduled Tasks
Sidebar Gadgets (Windows Vista)
Services and Drivers
Print Monitors



This is where Autoruns becomes almost indispensable. Autoruns is a free XP and Vista toll developed by Sysinternals (now part of Microsoft). The beauty of Autoruns is that it shows you absolutely everything that’s loaded a startup, including services, drivers, applications and more. Using the tabs, you can view items in individual segments, or you can view all entries in one list under the Everything tab.

Each entry details the publisher name along with a brief description of what its function is. If you’re still not sure what and entry relates to, right-click it, select Search Online and a browser window will appear complete with web search results relating to that specific entry.

For example, if you’ve installed Apple iTunes, you’ll see a service called Apple Mobile Device that has a Startup Type of Automatic. However, if you don’t have an iPod or other Apple-based portable media player, this service isn’t required. To find out a little more about the service, right-click it and select Search Online. Now right-click the service and select the Process Explorer option. The Process Explorer utility will load and you’ll be taken to the Apple Mobile Device properties window. Under Physical Memory, the WS Private entry (this details how much memory the service is hogging) shows it’s only using 872KB, but if you want to squeeze every last bit of performance out of your PC, it’s worth turning it off.

You can disable the service in Autoruns by removing the tick from the box next to it, or use the Window’s Services utility to change the Startup Type to Disabled. If later you buy an iPod, do remember to return this setting to Automatic.

Since Autoruns is designed to highlight those items that are run as soon as you boot into Windows, it won’t display those services that have Startup Type of Manual, even if they’re running. To view all services, you’ll need to use the Windows Services utility, which is accessible under Administrative Tools within Control Panel. Each service is listed, along with its Startup Type, status and a brief description. By right-clicking a service you can change its status and, by selecting Properties (or double-clicking an entry), change its Startup Type.

All said and done, knowing which services can safely have their Startup Type altered isn’t always easy, and if you’re not sure about one, it’s best to simply leave it alone.

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip

Microsoft introduced its new version of Internet Explorer on Thursday, touting its new security features such as the SmartScreen phishing filter. However, the new features weren't enough to keep a the browser from being hacked at the CanSecWest conference.

Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft unveiling of Internet 10th Annual Online Fraud Report. Online Payment Fraud Trends, Merchant Practices and Benchmarks. Get your copy today. Explorer 8 on Thursday was marred by news that the browser, touted to be its most secure ever, already has been hacked.

The launch has also kicked off a new round of browser wars, with Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google unveiling a new beta of its Chrome browser, and Mozilla More about Mozilla Foundation releasing Fennec, the mobile version of its Firefox browser, in beta.

IE8 was cracked at the 10th annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, Wednesday by a hacker who identified himself only as "Nils." To be fair, the first browser to go down at the hacking contest at CanSecWest was Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) More about Apple Safari.

"Microsoft is investigating reports of a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8," a Microsoft spokesperson said. "While we're not aware of any actual attacks using this possible vulnerability or of any customers affected, if the vulnerability is confirmed, we'll take action to help protect our customers."
Security and IE8

This is not the first time a security vulnerability has been discovered in IE8 --in February, Microsoft released a security bulletin for IE8.

Announcing IE8's release Thursday, Microsoft said it "offers leading-edge security features in direct response to people's increasing concerns about online safety," and quoted CEO Steve Ballmer as saying that IE8 "provides protection that no other browser can match."

Does that square with the facts? Probably, Jason Miller, security and data team manager at network security and patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies, told TechNewsWorld. "They have SmartScreen Filter, which they haven't had before, and there are reports that it's catching a lot of malware," he explained.

SmartScreen Filter is an extension of IE7's phishing filter. When a user visits a site that has been labeled harmful, IE8 will put up a warning and suggest the user not visit the site.

Still, all software has vulnerabilities and is prone to hacking, Miller said.
Browser Wars Reignite

IE8 has lots of nice new stuff. These include accelerators, a version of selection-based search that lets users invoke an online service from any other page using just the mouse. IE8 also has Web Slices, which are snippets of a page that a user subscribes to. The browser will automatically update the snippets, which users can view directly from the Favorites bar.

This could kick off a new round of browser wars, as other firms offering Web browsers have revved up their efforts recently.

Google has just unveiled a new beta of Google Chrome, which it claims in a blog is almost twice as fast as the original beta. It also has several new features, including form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll, and lets the user drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view of Web pages.

Meanwhile, Mozilla rolled out the mobile version of its Firefox browser, called "Fennec." This has impressed reviewers at first sight because of the variety of features it offers.
More Trouble Coming?

The browser wars could lead to more security issues, Shavlik's Miller warns. "As you add new features, there will be new areas for vulnerabilities to exist," he said. "The more bloated these browsers get, the more areas there are to attack."

Miller predicts that hackers will unleash a torrent of attacks on IE8 over the next few weeks. "There's a lot of money in this for the hackers, and they'll want to find a way in."

The situation won't be helped by the fact that hackers are now targeting browsers more heavily. "Over the past couple of years, browsers have overtaken e-mail as the area where users spend the most time, and attackers are putting out traps on Web sites," Paul Judge, chief technology officer at Web security application vendor Purewire, told TechNewsWorld.

"There's no shortage of vulnerabilities out there," Judge added.

If you use your notebook computer as your main computer and if you have a spare monitor, then you can put your monitor to good use by making it your Laptop’s secondary monitor. It doesn’t really matter if the second monitor is a CRT or TFT, both work fine. First, let’s see why you would want to add a secondary monitor to your laptop. Here are a few reasons:



.It instantly doubles your desktop space with buying a larger monitor.
.You can work with two maximised windows at the same time.
.If you are working on a tool like Photoshop, which has lots of toolbars and panels, you could move the tools to the second monitor and have a large work area on your main monitor.
.If you need to compare two documents, you can open each of the documents in a different monitor.
.When browsing your picture library, you can view the thumbnails on one monitor, and use the second monitor to view the pictures full screen.
.If you need to stay on top of your e-mail while working, you can keep your inbox open on one monitor and work on the other.

These are just a few suggestion but actually how you use the dual monitors is only limited by your imagination. Now lets see how to set up the secondary monitor. Make sure that both your Laptop and the monitor are switched off. Connect the monitor to your Laptop by connecting it to the VGA or DVI connector, typically found on the rear of your laptop computer. Now switch on your laptop and the monitor. You will notice that initially, only one of the two monitors is activated. You can usually switch between the monitors by pressing the hotkeys in your laptop. Normally, it is a combination of the Fn key with another key with an image of a monitor on it (normally found on one of the function keys). To bring on the display on both the monitors you’ll need to adjust your display settings by following these steps:


1.Right-Click on an empty area on your desktop. On the context menu that pops-up click on Properties and on the resulting ‘Display Properties‘ window, go to the Settings tab.




2.Click the monitor icon labeled 2, and then select the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor checkbox.
3.If necessary, drag the monitor icons so that they are arranged in the same way as the monitors on your desk. Clicking on the Identify button will help you know which monitor is 1 and which monitor is 2.





4.If need be, change the resolution of your secondary monitor to the most appropriate settings. You change the resolution of both the monitors independently.
5.Click Apply. Windows XP will activate your new monitor.
6.Finaly, click OK.

Once your monitor is set up, you can use your mouse to grab the title bar of a window and drag it to your new display. Make sure that the window your are trying to drag is not maximised, in which case you will not be able to drag it. To be able to drag it, first double-click on the title bar and then drag it. It may take you a while to get used to working on dual monitors, but once you do, it will forever change the way you work with your computer. Be creative and experiment with the sizing of application windows and what information you can keep in constant view while doing multiple tasks.

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License.

You may read through the list of Features available in K-Meleon before you Download the latest release version to try it out. You can also see some Screenshots first if you want to know what K-Meleon looks like.

It Can Be Downloaded Here:-

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/download.php

MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere.

Every time you plug your MojoPac-enabled device into any Windows XP PC , MojoPac automatically launches your environment on the host PC. Your communications, music, games, applications, and files are all local and accessible. And when you unplug the MojoPac device, no trace is left behind – your information is not cached on the host PC.

Download It For Free At:-

http://www.mojopac.com

Many times our computer gets infected by 'ORKUT' virus.After you get infected you can no longer visit ORKUT site or use Mozilla Firefox.After you start Firefox you will get an error saying “I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…” or “USE INTERNET EXPLORER YOU FOOL or When you tried opening orkut this is the message it popped up ” ORKUT IS BANNED,Orkut is banned you fool` and there will be a laugh.If u type 'www.orkut.com' the browser will close.

The worm name is w32.USBWorm .Nick names Muhaha virus/Orkut virus/I hate FireFox virus

This is my procedure to remove the "ORKUT" Virus manually....

1)Open Task manager(If Possible) or Process manager or System Explorer.

http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/SystemExplorer.exe

2)End the task called svchost.exe(not of the system but of the user only).Try to End the process tree.
3)Then create an empty file named autorun.inf and paste it in all the hard drives.And also in Windows directory and Windows/system32.

4)The run the software named rrt.exe.Tick mark all the options and apply it.

http://download.sergiwa.com/security/RRT.zip

5)Then go to run->msconfig.

6)Remove all the unwanted entries in the startup tab.Remove programs such as svchost.exe,amvo.exe,amva.exe etc
7)Open all hidden files from the folder options.Then go to C Drive and delete the folder named heap41a
8)Go to windows/system32 and delete the file named hsvchost.exe or svchost.exe(the file shd have an icon of H).Do not delete the svchost of the system.
9)Then go to run->regedit
10)search for heap41a
11)You will find
"[winlogon] C:\heap41a\svchost.exe C:\heap (some number) \std.txt"
Delete these values....
12)Even After That u get some error then find the error in the regedit as same as u foundout heap41a values and delete it.


NOTE:YOUR ORKUT VIRUS WILL BE REMOVED ONLY IF U CARRY THESE PROCEDURES PROPERLY.

If you come across an unknown file and want to know what that file is, you could either google it up or you could head straight to whatisthatfile.com.

Whatisthatfile is a database of information about files which you can search by the file name. You can enter a filename and see if this file is a dangerous trojan, malware, or simply a standard Windows file. For example, I searched for scvhost.exe, and I got the following info.

The site doesn’t claim to have the information about every file or every virus/trojan. But it is constantly updated. Actually, anybody can add to the database. If you come across a file or virus which is not included in the database, you can add the information about the file yourself.