53 Pages, 10 Months, 1295 Infected Hosts, 103 Countries, And They Still Can't Say "Windows Malware"

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-03-31-010-35-OP-BZ

Linux Today Blog: "Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries"-- sounds promising, right? In the New York Times, no less, so it should be good. Well, no. And why is the Dalai Lama running Windows?
Updated..."It's not about you, or about Linux" --ed.

Vírus que infectou milhões de PCs ficará mais forte em abril, dizem especialistas

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O vírus Conficker, que já atacou milhões de computadores em todo o mundo, deve se fortalecer mais ainda no dia 1º de abril, tornando-se mais difícil de combater --sem causar, no entanto, muita devastação. A gigante americana do software Microsoft já prometeu uma recompensa de US$ 250 mil dólares para quem conseguir identificar os criadores do vírus, conhecido também como DownAdUP.

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Microsoft anunciou recompensa de US$ 250 mil por denúncia sobre Conficker

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Teste de JavaScript indica que IE8 ainda é o mais lento dos browsers

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Framingham - Mesmo com alegações da Microsoft, teste SunSpider confirma que, entre os 5 browsers mais populares, IE8 final aparece na lanterna.

Conficker.C primed for April Fool's activation

URL: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/W5i-SIGsMzE/confickerc-primed-for-april-fools-activation.ars

We've been tracking the Conficker worm since it launched itself into the wild last November; despite the best efforts of security officials worldwide, the worm still hasn't been completely crushed. The original flavor and its nastier follow-up (Conficker.A and Conficker.B) have been locked down, but the worm's creators have a third version (Conficker.C, naturally) prepared to hit the tubes come April 1. The new "C" twist won't have all of the tools "B" used to replicate, but it will be able to detect and kill certain system processes designed to find and remove it.

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Microsoft Windows 7 Will Not Support Native Blu-Ray Disc Playback

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20090305144654_Microsoft_Windows_7_Will_Not_Support_Native_Blu_Ray_Disc_Playback.html

Windows 7 Users Will Still Have to Rely on Third-Party Software to Playback BD Movies

No Patch For Excel Zero-Day Flaw

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CWmike writes "Microsoft said today that it will deliver three security updates on Tuesday, one of them marked 'critical,' but will not fix an Excel flaw that attackers are now exploiting. 'It doesn't look like we're going to see patches for any open Microsoft security advisories,' said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, pointing to three that have not yet been closed. Those include two advisories issued last year — one from April 2008, another from December — and the Excel alert published last week. 'I'm not really surprised that the Excel vulnerability won't be patched, what with the timeline,' said Storms, 'but the others have been open for a long time.'"

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Analyzing Microsoft's Linux Lawsuit

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jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens takes a close look at Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom (discussed here last week), which involves an implementation of the Linux kernel, and calls it essentially a paper tiger. He notes: 'the technologies claimed in the 8 patents involved are so old and obvious that it's fair to say they have a high "Duh!" factor. There's an anti-trust angle to this suit that could blow up in Microsoft's face. And there's a high probability that some or all of the patents involved are invalid, due to recent court decisions.' Although the legal expense for TomTom to defend itself in court could be astronomical — meaning they may be forced to settle — in Perens' view Microsoft is aware its case is weak, yet hopes for a PR victory at limited cost." And reader nerdyH adds speculation from Open Innovation Network CEO Keith Bergelt that Redmond's action could be retaliation for TomTom's spurning a Microsoft acquisition bid in 2006.

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Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-03-01-008-35-OP-EM-LL

Boycott Novell: "Ever notice that you can hardly use a computer anymore without being in somebody's cross-hairs? Somebody, somewhere, is always out to get you. All we want to do is use these clever devices they keep making for us to buy, and be happy and not bother anybody. But somebody out there apparently didn't learn how to play nice with others."