This news is a slap on the face of Microsoft, who tried offering $250 million for a tip off on the creators of Conficker worm. Not only that the creators have managed to remain anonymous, they have now up their ante against security vendors who are working to stop the worm spread.
The latest version of Conficker worm, named Conficker.C, shuts down security services, blocks computers from connecting to security Web sites, and downloads a Trojan. It also is programmed to begin connecting to 50,000 different domains on April 1 to receive updated copies or other malware, as opposed to connecting to 250 domains a day as previous versions are doing. Now, stop thinking if this is an April fool prank.
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Microsoft, Symantec, F-Secure and other security vendors including a host of domain registration providers, have been working to thwart the efforts of the deadly Downadup worm creators by pre-registering and locking up the domain names being used by the worm to distribute updates.Must Read: 9 Comments Read More
The browser war is surely getting heated up more than ever. Mozilla Firefox, whose stable release is currently 3.0.7, is known to be working on its latest version in the past few months - code named Shiretoko. This was marketed as version 3.1 till recently, but there were rumors that Mozilla might actually consider renaming this version to 3.5 since lots and lots of new features are being added and many bugs are being fixed. The rumors have been proved true. So, there won't be any 3.1 releases from now on, it will be Firefox 3.5!
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Major differences between this and the T-Mobile G1/ HTC Dream? The HTC Magic seems to be a more compact phone. With the absense of a QWERTY keyboard it’s lighter. It also has double the memory (ROM) on board and beefier battery.Update: The earlier video was deleted. Here is the alternate link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2GT_h-olk What you think of it? [
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