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 Friday, May 20, 2005
AMD 64 SuperStar
The Platinum Edition of the K8N Neo4 from MSI comes from the factory with a very high level of equipment. It uses NVIDIA's nForce4 Ultra, and MSI provides one x1 PCIe connection. The second port has the physical dimensions of x4 PCIe, but features just two lanes. The fourth lane is taken up by an additional Gigabit network chip.

The Northbridge fan, unfortunately, made quite a racket - and no wonder, running at up to 7,000 RPM. The layout is very cramped due to the high number of additional components. Besides the chipset functions, MSI included a SATA controller from Silicon Image, which adds four additional SATA ports with Command Queuing. A VIA module provides a FireWire connection. Also included are IDE round cables, SATA power switches and a USB adapter complete the package.
With 4 additional SATA Raid 5 or 10 is supported and still have 4 available channels for other simple disks. This makes a great middle level server board that can deliver high speed redundant life cycle. A board found at $139.00 that supports raid 10 has been hard to find. Actually a controller in that price range is hard to find. So if you are worried about on board raid I say buy two and keep one in a box and you are still money ahead.
Hardware
5/20/2005 8:56:21 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Washington State outlaws spyware

Leading the legislative pack, the governor of Washington signed an antisypware bill with serious penalties for violators. The law defines specific unlawful behavior, such as hijacking home and search pages, and displaying excessive numbers of pop-up ads. This law also takes on deceptive installation practices and software that reinstalls itself. The section on reinstallation makes it illegal to “Prevent, through intentionally deceptive means, an owner or operator’s reasonable efforts to block the installation or execution of, or to disable, computer software by causing the software that the owner or operator has properly removed or disabled automatically to reinstall or reactivate on the computer”. There’s some leeway in this section, since it requires “intentionally deceptive means”, which may be hard to prove in court.

Because it’s a Washington state law, violations have to occur in Washington for a prosecution to take place. But since it calls for one hundred thousand dollars in damages per violation, a lot of people may consider bringing their laptop on a vacation to the state.

Threats
5/20/2005 5:50:15 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Netscape 8.0 Browser Features
The newest Netscape browser combines the best features from Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox but no longer tries to commandeer all search traffic to its own engine.

America Online Inc.'s Netscape 8.0 now uses Google as the default search engine. A test version of the free browser had used the Netscape engine. Out Thursday, Netscape 8.0 also lets users choose AskJeeves, and AOL says it is in talks with Yahoo as well.
Netscape also switches the placement of the boxes into which users type in search terms and Web addresses. Recognizing the growing use of search for navigation, the search box now has the more prominent spot on the left.

IE remains the dominant browser, but many users complain of its numerous security vulnerabilities and lack of modern features like tabbed browsing, which lets you visit multiple Web sites without opening multiple browser windows.

Firefox addresses those issues, but some sites won't work because they're tailored for IE. The new Netscape, which is only available for Windows PCs, addresses that quandary. It displays most sites using a Firefox engine that's embedded in Netscape's software. But, when it deems a site relatively safe, it uses the IE software engine that is built into Windows.
Software
5/20/2005 4:33:47 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
WD Launches NAS Device

The WD NetCenter will ship in June for $399 for a 320-Gbyte model, the highest capacity point in the NetCenter lineup. Capacities will range from 160 to 320 Gbytes. For those who want a little something extra to impress the ladies, the $299 320-Gbyte Extreme Lighted Combo Drives will add a kaleidoscope LED light, but subtract the Ethernet functionality.

In the case of the NetCenter, however, WD is offering a drive that few of its competitors do. Save for companies like Ximeta, drive makers have foregone the network-attached storage market in favor of directly attaching a drive via a USB or IEEE 1394 port, which the NetCenter can do as well.

The WD NetCenter contains a management software tool for mirroring the drive, backing up data, and protecting and sharing folders, as well as the WD EasyLink utility to set up NetCenter as a local drive on any computer on the network. The drive can also assign DHCP addresses. Only a 10/100-Mbit Ethernet connection is provided, however.

Hardware
5/20/2005 4:24:26 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Thursday, May 19, 2005
IM Worm infects AOL software

Published: February 9, 2005 | Updated: February 11, 2005

Microsoft is aware of exploit code available on the Internet that targets an issue addressed this week by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-009. Microsoft is not currently aware of any active attack utilizing this code or any customer impact. We will continue to actively monitor the situation and provide updated customer information and guidance as necessary.

Our investigation of this exploit code has verified that it does not affect users who have installed the MS05-009 update for both Microsoft Windows and MSN Messenger. Microsoft continues to recommend customers apply the MS05-009 updates to the affected products by enabling Automatic Updates in Windows as well as installing the updated version of MSN Messenger.

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News Story by John E. Dunn

MAY 18, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Users of AOL’s instant messaging software, AIM, should be on the lookout for an innovative new worm variously named "Oscarbot-B" and "Doyorg" by antivirus companies. "Full Story".

Threats
5/19/2005 8:59:19 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
Email Validation

The question has been asked many times how can I validate a email address? As you would expect the answer is deeper than just do a line of java script. Which one could use a java script to assure that at least the formatting is correct. A good simple sample code can be found here. "Click Here" 

If you want something that can actually Helo a email address to really know whether or not the address is bogus or not this will require a component. My personal favorite can be found here "Click Here".

Mail
5/19/2005 2:26:22 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
W32.Mytob.CF@mm

W32.Mytob.CF@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the compromised computer.

The worm also opens a back door and spreads through the network by exploiting the Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface Buffer Overrun Vulnerability (described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-026) and the Microsoft Windows Local Security Authority Service Remote Buffer Overflow (as described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011).

Type: Worm
Infection Length: 56,832 bytes
 
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Virus
5/19/2005 1:06:27 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |