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US Passport online could be a .NET Passport in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

US govt evaluates Microsoft Passport for services The US Government is evaluating Microsoft Corp's Passport to verify the identity of American citizens, federal employees and businesses who access planned online services, a move that could herald the system's largest single rollout. Federal officials will begin testing web sites in September that allow businesses to pay taxes and up to 285m US citizens to learn about benefits and social services. Passport is being considered as a way

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New.net downloads reignites Kazaa controversy in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Kazaa’s file swapping software downloads are again in the spotlight following complaints regarding New.net software, which comes bundled with the popular P2P download. Launched in March last year, New.net offers access to a series of domain names such as .shop and .sport, through partnerships with ISPs in Europe and the US. However, at the centre of the latest controversy is the distribution of New.net's software through affiliate partners iMesh, BearShare, Kazaa, and Grokster. <

BT launches 'no frills' DSL in the UK in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Direct DSL - what it is, how it works, where to get it... BT has launched a new version of DSL, with lower costs, possibly better service, and very little prospect of ISPs such as Freeserve making any cash from it. The new product will launch in June and it will be a couple of pounds per month cheaper than the current wires-only DSL product. End users currently pay around £25 a month for DSL access. The basic difference is that data traffic from the customer's home goes stra

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 1.0 available in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Microsoft has created a new tool, the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), to analyze Windows systems for common security misconfigurations. Version 1.0 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet Inform

Download.com Removes KaZaa in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

It makes me wonder why anyone who is aware of all the spyware, adware, and such being quietly loaded on unsuspecting machines would ever download KaZaa. This is especially true with the recent Brilliant Digital Entertainment scandal where loading KaZaa automatically makes you a part of a distributed computing scheme whose inclusion you never authorized. But then that is the problem here, most people are not aware. Putting a bad spin on file sharing to make an aggressive buck, KaZaa sel

ViewSonic Brings Next Generation Technology Home in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

ViewSonic Corporation announced a number of consumer-focused display products at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show, including its first wide-format smart display capable of high-resolution data and video, along with two new lightweight, affordable, feature-rich projectors. In addition, the company unveiled a prototype for a new category of wireless monitors that will enable users to experience always-on, anytime mobile connectivity to a PC from anywhere in the home. "ViewSonic is comm

New Power Mac G4 - Dual 1GHz & Geforce4 in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Apple have quietly released a beast into the wild! Thanks unspec and Dazzla (who posted in the forums) the link to the specs. The dual 1GHz PowerPC G4 processors — with a combined performance of 15 billion floating point operations per second, or 15 gigaflops — put this fearsomely fast Power Mac G4 squarely in the lead as the ultimate high-end graphics workstation. The first Power Mac to blast through the 1GHz barrier, the new twin-engined G4 runs professional applications like Adobe

Microsoft Personal Collection 2002 in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Families using Microsoft Office XP, Office 2000 or Office 97 on their home computers now can surpass the traditional computing experience with the benefits offered by Microsoft Office Personal Portfolio 2002 and Microsoft Personal Collection 2002. As the cornerstone of Personal Collection, Personal Portfolio offers families more than 600 helpful templates for Word, Excel, the PowerPoint® presentation graphics program and the Outlook® messaging and collaboration client by giving them cr

Shockwave Computer Virus Found, Threat Low in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

San Fransisco (Reuters) - Computer security experts on Tuesday said they had found the first virus designed to attack Macromedia Shockwave Flash animation files, which are predomininantly used in Internet advertising and on glitzy Web sites. The virus, dubbed SWF/LFM.926, is low risk because it must be downloaded manually and cannot spread itself to other computers over e-mail or through Web pages like many other viruses can, experts said. A sample of the virus was sent to an

Microsoft gives Mac OS X users Window Media Player in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Windows Media Player for Mac OS X allows Mac users to easily enjoy playback of high-quality Windows Media Audio and Video content. The new release supports the latest industry-leading Windows Media Audio 8 and Windows Media Video 8, as well as Windows Media Digital Rights Management, and is available in six languages worldwide. "We designed the new Windows Media Player to be a great player for Mac OS X users," said Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at M

Reply to Paxx joins the WinCusotmize Staff in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

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EDIT: Popular file-share utilities contain Trojans in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Popular file-sharing software from Grokster and the Limewire Gnutella Client contain the W32.DlDer Trojan, Symantec revealed last week. According to several The Reg readers, the KaZaA utility also contains the same infection. The Trojan here is a spyware application masquerading as a lottery game called ClickTilUWin. When installing the Grokster or Limewire software, and some versions of KaZaA, the user is given an option to enable the ClickTilUWin feature. Regardless of whet

Email worm eats security software in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Computer users returning after the New Year break are in danger from the latest mass mailing email worms. The ZaCker (or Maldal.D) worm can delete antivirus software protection and a variety of critical system files from the PCs of unwary users. Typically, the mass mailing worm arrives by email with the subject line ZaCker and an executable, infected attachment which weighs in at 27KB. It uses Outlook to spread itself to everybody in the Outlook address book. More inform

Reply to Apple releases 10.1.2 for Mac OSX in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

It is only a news for people to know that there is a new version of that OS.

Apple releases 10.1.2 for Mac OSX in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Mac OSX has its 2nd major update since its release in March of this year, now at 10.1.2 this update contains a number of fixes, some of which are listed below. The 10.1.2 update delivers improvements and new functionality, including: Updated and new USB and FireWire device support, including FireWire-based digital cameras PC Card storage devices, including media readers IrDA modem support for FireWire-based PowerBook models Mail support for

Windows CE .Net ready for January launch in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

In a move that takes Microsoft Corp. one step closer to realizing its .Net vision of ubiquitous access to Web-based content and services, the company is gearing up for the January launch of the next version of its Windows CE operating system, Windows CE .Net. Formerly code-named Talisker, Windows CE .Net is an embedded operating system designed to be used in mobile devices, such as smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDA), said Eddie Wu, senior director of Microsoft's Embedde

Intel's 2.2GHz Pentium 4 hits the streets early in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

INTEL Corp.'s newest microprocessor, the next generation 2.2GHz version of its Pentium 4 chip, went on sale in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district on Thursday afternoon, ahead of its official launch date in January. The new processor is not just a faster version of the company's previous chips but is the first new chip to be based on Intel's Northwood core. Produced using a state-of-the-art 0.13 micron production process rather than the 0.18 micron process used for current Willamett

Palm joins OS X supporters in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Palm announced this week the availability of a beta, or trial, version of Palm Desktop software 4.0 for the Mac. The new version is Palm's first created for Apple Computer's Mac OS X, the groundbreaking operating system released in March. Although older programs for Macs work in the so-called classic environment of Mac OS X, they must be tweaked to take advantage of the operating system's features such as its improved stability and Aqua user interface. To use the beta softwar

McAfee has launched a new subscription service in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Broadband net users in the UK who are worried that their PCs could be subverted by malicious hackers can now let anti-virus companies keep an eye on their machines for them. Security company McAfee has launched a subscription service that uses the web to protect a PC against viruses and attacks by computer vandals. For a monthly fee, subscribers get anti-virus software and a firewall designed to keep personal information on a PC secure. Research commissioned by McAf

Novell releases Client for Windows XP in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

The Novell Client for Windows XP software allows users of Windows XP workstations to access and use all of the services available on servers running NDS*. The 32-bit Novell Client product brings the full power, ease of use, manageability, and security of NDS to Windows XP workstations. Novell Client for Windows XP fully supports NetWare* and NDS services and utilities on a Windows XP workstation, including integrated messaging, multiprotocol support, management, security, and file and print serv

MS Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer Review in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Here's a bit: "Logitech was first to market with a mouse that was both wireless, and optical. Their wireless MouseMan Optical is to date one of my favourite mice thanks to its ergonomic design, cordless convenience, and precision control. But just because Logitech got the jump on Microsoft didn't mean they had won the game just yet, so it was no surprise that Microsoft would come tearing down the peripherals straightaway with the Porsche of cordless mice: the all-new Microsoft Wireless IntelliMo

Dreamcast game spreads virus in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

A Japanese-language version of a Sega Dreamcast role-playing game has become infected with a computer virus. The game, Atelier Marie, includes a screensaver which is infected with the highly damaging Kriz virus. Although the Dreamcast itself is left unscathed by this, anyone loading the screensaver onto their PC from the game's CD-ROM will be in for an unpleasant surprise, when the virus activates on Christmas Day. Kriz will erase the CMOS setup and attempt to corrupt a computer's BIO

'Top 10' virus list for 2001 in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

It's that time of year again: Get ready for 2001 'Top 10' lists. In one of the first to come out this year, antivirus company Sophos PLC released its annual list of the top 10 viruses for 2001, with the Nimda worm taking honors as the most destructive worm or virus of the year. Nimda accounted for 27 percent of all reports received by Sophos' help desk during 2001, with the Sircam virus making up 20.3 percent of all reports for the year, according to Graham Cluley, senior technology c

4m in the US face broadband blackout in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

More than four million broadband cable users in the US face being cut off unless a dispute between Excite@Home and cable companies is resolved. A US judge is due to rule on the matter later today after creditors of Excite@Home - which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September - called for the service to be shut down. If the judge sides with the creditors, customers could be left without Net access from this evening. Pulling the plug at such short notice is thought unlikel