Archive for December, 2005

Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger beta

A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft’s MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog Tuesday.
The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be downloaded from a Web site. Running the program installs not a new MSN Messenger beta, but rather [...]

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Google gets sued by Jews for Jesus

Christian evangelical group Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a blog hosted through Google’s Blogspot service infringes its trademark.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks to force Google to give Jews for Jesus control of the site as well as unspecified monetary damages.
Susan Perlman, associate executive director with Jews [...]

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Santa’s Worm hits popular IM networks

A Santa Claus worm has hit popular IM networks namely MSN, AOL and Yahoo! and is attempting to trick its users into clicking a file that uploads malicious software to a victims’s computer.
The worm, IM.GiftCom.All, attempts to fool users into thinking that an acquaintance has sent them a link to a harmless Santa Claus file, [...]

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Google Brain Search

This is awesome. check it out…
To recall memories, your brain travels back in time via the ultimate Google search, according to a new study in which scientists found they can monitor the activity and actually predict what you’ll think of next.
The work bolsters the validity of a longstanding hypothesis that the human brain takes itself [...]

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Google Money

Wanna make some quick money? Well here’s a ‘get rich quick program’ that claims not to be like other programs of its kind.
The owner of the program seems to have made a lot of money and is willing to share his knowledge.
You can find it here

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Google to launch PCs

Google is planning to launch PCs for markets in India and China. According to the report by India’s leading newspaper, Hindustan Times, (Report not available online) Google will be launching the PCs with California based Wyse technology.
The PCs won’t have CPU; they will be bundled with Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. The PC will connect to [...]

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Google Offers Mobile Phone Version of Gmail e-mail

Google has created a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail, the company said on Friday.
Details on the mobile e-mail service, which currently is only available to U.S. cellphone users at http://m.gmail.com.
The service works on the subset of more advanced mobile phones that offer [...]

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Yahoo IM Phishing Attack

IMLogic, an Instant messaging security firm, warned of a new phishing attack making its way through the Yahoo! Messenger network on Monday.
The attack, IM.Marphish2.Yahoo, attempts to steal personal information by making a user into believing that they are in violation of Yahoo’s Terms of Service.
The user is instructed to contact the “abuse department” through [...]

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Blog Searchengines

Here are some popular searchengines to list your blog:

Technorati
Glob of Blogs
Blog Street
Blog Searchengine
Blog Universe

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BitComet Banned From Growing Number of Private Trackers

The advent of DHT (Distributed Hash Tables) has been a valuable asset to the BitTorrent community. Most newer BitTorrent clients now support this network layer, which boosts the efficiency of the already capable BitTorrent protocol.
The first BitTorrent client to establish a DHT layer was Azureus, followed by the official BitTorrent client. Although similar, the two [...]

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Most Popular in December, 2005


  1. Speed up Windows XP
  2. Google Money
  3. Extra Tweaking for your OS
  4. BitComet Banned From Growing Number of Private Trackers
  5. Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger beta
  6. Yahoo IM Phishing Attack
  7. Fasterfox
  8. Firefox- new target for hackers?
  9. Google Brain Search
  10. Google Offers Mobile Phone Version of Gmail e-mail