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I sent a complain message about the new captcha to the support team and i got this reply ;
the most important part in this message -as i think- is the tip which could be useful for someone to help is
“The sitting animal is the cat.
The standing animal is the dog.”
And here is the full reply message ; Read the rest of this entry »
professional pedigree, Photoshop hasn’t overcome one of its main limitations: the 32-bit RAM limit. Current Photoshop (and any 32-bit applications in general) can only address 4GB of RAM in Windows (and it doesn’t matter if you’ve got 64-bit Vista/XP), and amazingly, a lowly 2GB in OS X.
Yes. OS X limits RAM use on a single application to 2GB. Read the rest of this entry »
Kaspersky Lab says Trojan uses social engineering to sell fake antivirus software
If your computer gets infected with a Trojan called the “MonaRonaDona virus,” be careful with what you use to wipe it off your computer, says antimalware software provider Kaspersky. MonaRonaDona is part of an elaborate scam to sell fake antivirus software, Kaspersky researchers say. Read the rest of this entry »
APPARENTLY OVERWHELMED by terrorists in the real world, the US government and its intelligence services have resorted to thwarting violent extremists who they believe may have infiltrated virtual worlds in cyberspace, such as World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Call of Duty 4 and Second Life.
A report sent to the US Congress by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which co-ordinates the work of US intelligence agencies, outlines plans to carry out extensive data mining and develop ways to spot extremists using virtual fantasy worlds. Read the rest of this entry »
The Mozilla Foundation’s new e-mail spin-off is aiming at a quick delivery of the first alpha version of Thunderbird 3.0, according to discussions among developers.
Dan Mosedale, a former Firefox developer who joined Mozilla Messaging — dubbed “MoMess” by some — floated the idea of producing an alpha build as early as April in a thread on the mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird group last week.
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Effort will also test how nontech users adapt to Ubuntu
For years, open source software advocates have been holding “installfests,” gatherings to help others learn how to install and use Linux and other open source applications on computers. This weekend in the US, a nonprofit group and a open source vendor are taking the idea a step further by co-sponsoring an all-day “Installfest for Schools” to create what they hope will be 500 refurbished computers to be used by underprivileged students in schools in nearby neighborhoods.
Male body part enhancements and celebrity suckers top the list of February spam lures
Six botnets were responsible for 85 per cent of all spam in February, the first time so few botnets have been responsible for so much spam, according to security provider Marshal’s Threat Research and Content Engineering team (TRACE).
One botnet alone, dubbed Srizbi, was responsible for the largest amount of spam at 39 per cent. It was followed by the Rustock botnet (20 per cent) and the Mega-D botnet (11 per cent) which returned with a vengeance after the discovery of its control servers saw its spam levels drop to zero during mid-February.
The 35,000 strong Mega-D botnet had returned to represent 21 per cent of spam after a 10-day period of inactivity, said Bradley Anstis, vice president of products for Marshal.
“Owing to the break, Mega-D only accounted for an average of 11 per cent of spam during February. At its peak last month, it was responsible for a third of all the spam we caught in our spam traps. While the recent publicity spooked the Mega-D spammers into taking their control servers offline, they have now clearly re-established themselves elsewhere,” Anstiss said.
