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face="Times New Roman">Vol. 9, No. 24<SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">7-11-09</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman">1 Potpourri<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="mso-tab-count: 1">
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">2 Misplaced disappointment</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">3 ImageShack hack, Tower of Babel squabble, spoofed
auctions, Gintel?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">4 Bowling for the desktop</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">We take a week off and look what happens, all manner of
chaos rends the fabric of the Internet.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Starting on July 4<SUP>th</SUP>, a very obvious target
date, servers at several US and South Korean government agencies were hit by a
barrage of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks and either knocked
offline or slowed considerably.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Early on some of the sites suffered heavily under the
swell of ping, UDP and syn packets and folded like a pair of deuces after the
river.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For now most are back up and
authorities are digging for those responsible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So far security firms have made most of
the progress, though.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Panda and other labs have identified the attack as coming
from a new variant of MyDoom, which has been floating around for five years and
originally targeted about everything but Macs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This new MyDoom has an embedded list of
target sites (which coincides suspiciously with the ones actually attacked) that
led to the lead suspect. </FONT></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">You can see this list below, with the sites attacked in
blue hyperlinks and the missed sites in gray.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of the gray sites, by the way, are
incorrect URLs.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/DDoS-attacking-US-and-South-Korea-government-sites-.aspx"><FONT
color=#800080 size=4
face="Times New Roman">http://tinyurl.com/mz88ds</FONT></A></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Considering the sites that were hit the likely culprit is
obvious, which indicates what may become the battleground of the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take out an enemy’s command-and-control
structure, financial underpinnings and major businesses and you cripple them
before any shots are ever fired.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
this case the attack was amateurish and easily blocked shortly after discovery
but it doesn’t bode well for things to come.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">On another frightening security note, a glitch in an
ActiveX control in Internet Explorer was exploited in a “0 day” wave of
infections starting over the weekend.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">The flaw allows a machine to be taken over remotely
through rogue ads, mostly from Chinese sites but it’s still spreading.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The infections happen without
participation from the user and it’s estimated that over 3 million websites have
been breached and infected with the virus.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">The flaw is in the MSVidCtrl ActiveX control and can’t be
disabled with a simple setting through Internet Options.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It takes editing a whopping 49 Class ID
keys in the Registry.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Microsoft has posted a temporary workaround
at:</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890"><FONT color=#800080 size=4
face="Times New Roman">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890</FONT></A></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">You can enable and disable the workaround with a simple
click on a button from there until a patch is released, which will be next
week’s Patch Tuesday.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would
suggest doing this post haste.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Last but not least on the security front, Google has
announced that is developing a web-centric OS for netbooks and PCs, currently
dubbed Chrome OS.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">According to Google it will be a windowing environment
running on a Linux kernel and will make security concerns a thing of the
past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Considering the flaws found
so far with the Chrome browser I’d have to see that statement verified to
believe it.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">The OS, still over a year away, will concentrate on
speed, ease-of-use and security and most computing tasks will apparently be
carried out “in the cloud”, meaning that most of the applications will actually
be web-based and not installed on the local machine.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Privacy advocates will likely drop like flies with
strokes over the idea of your private documents and pictures being stored on
some online server.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">While it may have a “new” GUI instead of Gnome or KDE, at
its core it will be just another Linux distro just like Redhat, Mandrake or
Ubuntu; in other words, nothing to write home about.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Since all three of these stories have been developing all
week I wasn’t satisfied with the information early on, so this issue is a little
late.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We should be back to Thursday
evening next week bar any new unforeseen event. </FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Kevin Mefford, Editor</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="mailto:pcguru@microdome.net"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">pcguru@microdome.net</FONT></A></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Terry Wise</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.ratland.com/"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">www.ratland.com</FONT></A></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">Tech News of
the Week</FONT></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Photo storage site ImageShack hacked:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/10/imageshack-hacked/"><FONT color=#800080
size=4
face="Times New Roman">http://mashable.com/2009/07/10/imageshack-hacked/</FONT></A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Rosetta Stone sues Google over misuse of its
trademark.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which language they used
is unknown at this point:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://tinyurl.com/mknecm"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">http://tinyurl.com/mknecm</FONT></A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">eBay auctions may be “rigged”.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who knew?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/ebay_and_shill_bidding/"><FONT
color=#800080 size=4
face="Times New Roman">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/ebay_and_shill_bidding/</FONT></A></P>
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face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Intel working with Google on Chrome OS:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="http://tinyurl.com/lx7qrw"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">http://tinyurl.com/lx7qrw</FONT></A></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman">Download of
the Week</FONT></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman">Go
bowling without leaving the house. Bowling PC is a cinematic-looking 3D bowling
game and is exceedingly simple: Knock down the pins. You control the ball's
placement by using the arrow keys, and then use other keys to determine when and
where to throw it. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman">You
can play against the computer, or against other people on your PC, and you get
plenty of options, such as for which ball to use, whether to play rock music
while bowling, the angle of the "camera" that tracks the ball and the game, and
so on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Get it
here:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><A
href="http://www.freegamepick.com/en/games_bowlingpc.html"><FONT size=4
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>Note: When you install the software, it will also
by default install the Ask toolbar and change your default search engine to
Ask.com. If you don't want the toolbar or change in your search engine, uncheck
the boxes during installation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Carlita Lupino<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT
size=5><FONT face="Times New Roman">Email Question of the
Week<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Q:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just to
update you..........I found the invoice for the LG burner and it only had a 30
warranty so I went ahead and did the flash update. It didn't fix the
problem.......it still does the same thing so I'm just going to buy a new
one. I do have one question though, what is the difference between an
'OEM' and a 'Retail' model? I just looked at some
burners on Newegg.com and the 'OEM' burners are about $5.00
cheaper than the same model number 'Retail' ones. Is it better to go
'Retail'? Again thanks for all your help.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><FONT
face="Times New Roman">A:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">OEM means
Original Equipment Manufacturer. Basically it's just a bare part sometimes
with a short warranty that's used by companies that build PCs. If the
warrant a system for a year and the part fails the PC manufacturer will cover it
out of pocket, so they get the part at a lesser price.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">OEM parts come with no documentation or software, it's
just the part in a bag.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Retail parts, on the other hand, have warranties from the
part manufacturer that range from one to five years (most hard drives
have three-five year coverage), include documentation, hardware to mount
the part and software, in your case DVD player and burning
software.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">In your case I'd say go with the retail since you had bad
luck with the last "short warranty" part. I usually go OEM to save a few
bucks because I have plenty of spares and don't need software or
booklets.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Hope that explains things and sorry I couldn't solve your
issue...</FONT></SPAN></P>
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