Have you ever had a great idea? perhaps something that could potentially revolutionise the computer industry and set you up for life?
Chances are that you aren’t the first person to think of it.
How many people do you know who are always coming up with great ideas but never implement them? Well, I’ll share a little secret with you. It is the implementation, not the idea which is important.
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New Worm

Sophos has posted a new blog entry yesterday about another worm that they have discovered. This worm spreads itself to removable storage devices. One of the things that this worm do is that it creates an autorun.inf file which runs when the device connects to a computer.

It also “redirects” regedit.exe’s and taskmgr.exe execution to different games. This process was made by creating two registry keys and the link in the source article below shows where they are stored.

Sol.exe and spider.exe were executed if a user tries to open Regedit or Task Manager.

Source: Sophos

Last week, Israeli researchers found that there is a bug in Windows 2000 which makes it possible for a person to predict the output of the random-number generator for that particular operating system.

Today, The Register reports that this bug is also present on Windows XP operating systems. According to their article, Microsoft admitted that this bug exists but they will not release a patch for it until they have finished working on Service Pack 3 which will be released next year.

An attacker must already have administrator rights before he or she can exploit this bug, based on what the spokesman for Microsoft said.

Source: The Register

If a person received an email from the US Department of Justice, he or she may believe that it was actually coming from that department. However, an article on The Register notes that these emails may be phony and it will try to install a malware on their computer.

The email instructs the recipient to download an attachment which contains a trojan according to MessageLabs and Websense.

These type of emails are called Spear phishing. According to The Register, a recent phishing occured. The Federal Trade Commission was involved in that other case.

Source: The Register

Three days ago, some of Monster.com’s went black because their job listings were hijacked by attackers. Their goal was to spread malware according to a security researcher.

The type of the attack is an iFrame attack whcih redirects vistors to malicious servers. The attack was included in the job listings of Best Buy, Toyota, and Eddie Bauer.

The Register notes that Rogers Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs confirmed that he is no longer detecting an attack which means that it may be safe to visit Monster.com again.

A spokesman for Monster.com said, “an extremely small percentage of those using the site this week were potentially exposed prior to those pages being cleaned.”

Source: The Register

Occasionally when a user tries to run or install a new program, they may get an error message like like this:

Component “MFC42.DLL” or one of its dependencies not correctly registered a file is missing or invalid

This means that a certain file is missing (in this case, MFC42.DLL). Software developers often assume that the end user has these particular files when creating their software. However, a stock-standard Windows installation doesnt include them and therefor, when you run the new program it complains that the file is missing.

Here are the most common packages that third party software often requests when trying to run. Its probably a good idea for computer technicians to have these handy when going onsite.
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The beta version of Mozilla’s next major upgrade to its internet browser, Firefox, is now available.

According to wired.com, Firefox 3 is slimmer and sleeker than its previous versions. It uses less memory and it will have new, useful additions for users.

The page loads are faster and websites that uses Ajax technology refreshes better.

Mozilla mentioned that it will help add-on creators for Firefox and they will also try to eliminate bugs of the most used extensions.

The release date of the final version of Firefox version 3 is sometime this month or next month.

For more information about this story, click the source link below.

Source: Wired

Core Temp is a free, stand alone utility that shows the temperature of your CPU. However, unlike other temperature monitoring software, Core Temp will show you the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system. It will show you the temperatures in real time so you can see the CPU temperature varies depending on the load on your CPU.

This compact application also has a logging feature allowing you to log the temperature over a period of time. Core Temp works on both the 32 and 64bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, and 2003.
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In my last article I touched on having multiple sources of income which seems to have sparked some interest about the topic amongst our readers. In this article I’ll go into greater detail about generating mutliple streams of income.
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The release candidate version of the third service pack for Windows XP operating system has been released. However, they are exlusive only to beta testers. Betanews.com reports that around 15,000 people are involve in this project to test the service pack.

Microsoft plans to release one more public beta release before they release the final version next year.

The writer who wrote the article for Betanews say that the first service pack for Windows Vista will likely be released first before the third service pack for XP. The date for the release of Service Pack #3 will occur on the first half of 2008.

Source: BetaNews