55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail – Security researchers are raising an alarm for a potent malware cocktail — backdoor Trojans and password stealers — being pushed to Windows users from about 55,000 hacked Web sites.
Can Microsoft’s Bing, or Anyone, Seriously Challenge Google? – Microsoft is spending massively on its new search business. Is Bing a better engine? Maybe. Can Google play defense? We may soon find out.
Helpful Web Sites: Regator, Snopes.com, and More – Browse blog posts, research e-mail claims, find DIY projects, get cleaning tips, and send anonymous tips–all for free on the Web.
Lifehacker: The Definitive Guide to Backing Up and Ditching Your Discs – Whether you’re moving, short on cash, or running out of storage space, you’ve got plenty of reasons to ditch your physical media. Hard drives are cheap; here are our recommended methods of saving, selling, and trading your CDs, DVDs, and video games.
This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats – Stay on top of all the real-time threats.
Windows 7 Will Run 120 Days for Free – Like its predecessor, Windows 7 can be used for up to 120 days without providing a product activation key, Microsoft confirmed today. Windows 7 Will Run 120 Days for Free. Although Microsoft generally touts a 30-day time limit for users to activate their copies of the company’s operating system, a little-known command designed for corporate administrators can be used by anyone to “reset” the countdown up to three times.
Stolen Credit Card Data Goes Cheap on the Black Market – When federal authorities charged Albert Gonzalez with hacking personal information from larger companies, they found that he lived comfortably from what he took. However, a check of the cyber-black market finds that stolen credit card information goes for much less then some people may think.
Windows 7 RC Downloads End Thursday – Microsoft will turn off the download spigot for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on Thursday around 11 a.m. ET, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
Deadly Pings For Cisco Routers And Switches – A vulnerability in Cisco’s Firewall Services Module (FWSM) software lets its routers and switches get disabled by a series of crafted ICMP packets.
Like RSS on Steroids – Google programmers have started testing a new feed protocol with the quirky name PubSubHubbub. Besides being a tongue twister, the new Google protocol allow programmers to turn existing Atom and RSS feeds into near real-time data streams. This allows content to show up very fast.
10+ ways to recover a corrupted Word document – Few computer experiences are worse than having a Word document blow up on you. But before you resign yourself to losing the document contents, check out these techniques for salvaging your text.
Off Topic:
Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change – Some scientists are suggesting that the slow return to a more active phase of the solar cycle may portend a general decline in solar activity. If sunspots shut down, does that mean that we could stop worrying about climate change?
10 habits of superstitious users – For some users, the computer is unfathomable – leading them to make bizarre assumptions about technology and the effect of their own actions. Here are a few irrational beliefs such users develop.
Are you Influential? 6 principles may change how you engage – How often do you get your point across? Get buy in? Get your way? Have you noticed how some people always seem to get their way? It may not be that they are smarter than you. It may be that they know something you don’t.
10 ways to convince your boss to let you work from home – Here are some well-supported arguments that demonstrate the benefits your company will gain when you work at home.
Today’s Free Downloads:
FreePrintable.net – At FreeLetterheadTemplates.net, the designs are full-color and attractive, there’s something for every occasion, and it’s easy to type directly onto the pre-formatted letterhead and print out full-color letters or fliers. The new additions include religious-themed letterhead, baby letterhead, wedding letterhead, house letterhead, and distinctive patriotic letterhead with a U.S. flag design.
Meta-iPod – Meta-iPod quickly hunts down and cleans out your dupes like it enjoys it. Fire it up, click the Start button to let it analyze your iTunes library, and if it finds dupes, click the 2x button to view the duplicates with meta-iPod’s best guesses for which you should save and which you should ditch.
Vista Codec Package 5.4 – With this package installed you will be able to use any media player, limited only by the players’ capabilities, to play all movies and video clips. Streaming video is supported in several formats in all popular web browsers.
SmarterFox 2.1.2 – SmarterFox is a popular productivity addon. Save your time get faster, parallelized downloads, auto-load the next page when you reach the end, search as you type from the URL bar, search highlighted text with the pop-up bubble, and more.
MonitorES – MonitorES fixes this frustration, allowing users to shut off displays on-demand with a hotkey, or automatically when they lock the computer. MonitorES also includes handy options to pause music and set instant messenger statuses to “away” whenever the display is turned off.
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I know a company that can challenge google.Its a company in china called baidu.
Hey Mathboyx215,
Thanks for the info.
BTW, you are one of the winners in the SuperAntiSpyWare giveaway. SuperAntiSpyWare will be in touch with you shortly with your free lifetime license.
Congrats,
Bill
’10+ ways to recover a corrupted Word document – Few computer experiences are worse than having a Word document blow up on you. But before you resign yourself to losing the document contents, check out these techniques for salvaging your text.’
Great tip Bill.