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Welcome to wild wild world of Microsoft. New beta Anti-Spyware program detect Norton Anti-Virus program as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it :/? It detects Symantec Antivirus files as PWS.Bancos.A
The lesson is simple do not install beta products in production environment. More information available at washingtonpost, Slashdot and Microsoft support forum.
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Concerned over satellite images of its strategic installations being made available in the public domain by internet search engine Google, India has decided to constitute an expert group to suggest ways to safeguard the country’s interests. According to yahoo news, “Satellite images made available by Google include Rashtrapati Bahwan, residences of the Prime Minister, besides [...]
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There is news of a worm which uses a vulnerability in the PHPXMLRPC libraries to spread a computer virus. It is called as Linux/Lupper.worm. This is not just Linux or BSD specific it would affect anything that use the PHP. McAfee reports that
This worm spreads by exploiting web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI scripts. It is [...]
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Xara announced that they are releasing an open source version of their vector drawing program, Xara Xtreme.
Xtreme Software is:
Graphics software for all your drawing and day to day photo needs, ideal for both print and the web
Creating web graphics
See gallery/effects of Xtreme online
Xara Xtreme on Linux will bring a leading-edge graphic tool to the Linux [...]
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Look like a rumor turns into reality. Many blogs and slashdot reporting this story. Oh boy that would be really nice. We all love to see M$ going down
Full article here.
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Linux isn’t for everyone. Seriously. Here are top five reasons (humorous article ) why you shouldn’t move to Linux . . . Slashdot has more in comments.
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It is True!!!
Japanese guy overclocked a Pentium 4 to 7.132GHz!!. More info also at slashdot.
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Wow!!! Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. To be frank I wasn’t aware of this day till I read the story on slashdot
Also checkout Sys Admin day web site http://www.sysadminday.com/, it has some cool links.
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