Merry Christmas and Beware of Santa Claus

With the holidays upon us, the name of Santa Claus is being used for evil rather than good by worm developers, who have targeted major instant-messaging systems with a holiday-themed virus.

The IM.GiftCom.All worm has made an appearance on several messaging networks, including America Online, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo. The worm attempts to dupe you into believing that a friend has sent you a link to a harmless file. If you click on the file, you see an image of Santa. While viewing it, the worm attempts to install a rootkit on your system. Rootkits are frequently used to circumvent security software and give an attacker remote control of a machine. Once the attacker is inside your system, the worm harvests your instant-message contact lists for subsequent infections.

please be careful
and happy holidays to all

Google OS? 2010?

It isn't that far fetched that Google might bring out their own Operating System.
and think about this, it might just be free like all their other nice programs.
Probably have ads in the OS.

I think I would definitely go for it when it comes out.
sooner or later, we can store our datas in google's hard drive and it be free.
The way Gmail is always increasing space as each second goes by, you never know what might happen.

Yahoo Answers You

‘Yahoo Answers’ is designed to provide information that can't easily be found using an Internet search engine, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said. Users will be able to vote on which answer is the best for each question.

This is a free service.

They are seeking to increase the amount of user-generated content on its web sites, is offering a service that lets people pose questions and receive answers from other Yahoo users.

Anti-Virus Programs

An update on them
Two free ones that are Two of the BEST Free ones out there.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
www.avast.com

The first one is called AVG, which they are well known for anti-virus program tool.
they are rated 4 stars out of 5 from download.com.

www.Avast.com is great for webshielding(firewall), auto updates for you, and much more.

But remember, do not have two of these running at the same time.
always uninstall one of them to install the other.

If you have two anti-virus program running at the sametime, they detect each other as viruses(most of the time, but not all).

Nokia Launches 3G Phones

Finally in America!!!
Took a long time for it to come here. Hong Kong had it for ever now.
Nokia gave no pricing details for the phone, which it unveiled on a day of presentations to investors in New York.
In case you do not know what 3G (third generation), they are cellphones that can talk with video, sorta like a webcam on a cellphone.

I think the first year, not everyone will have it because the prices are going to be too high.
Eventually when prices drops, thats when everyone will have it.

Skype 2.0 Free Video Calling

If you read my earlier post about skype.
well they going to upgrade it to video calling for free.
if you have a webcam, you can see who you are talking to.
And it will also have a toolbar for OutLook.

www.skype.com <~ I use this to talk to my clients.
I love using skype and you don't have to sign up for the paid one.
This can be used to talk to other skype users and you can call TOLL free numbers.
This way you don't have to worry about your PHONE number be given out to the public.