It’s happened with music, and now it’s happening with games. Those who upload the Dream Pinball 3D game from Topware Interactive to file-sharing sites are going to be taken to court, the BBC reports. The game maker has hired UK law firm Davenport Lyons to pursue the British offenders, and already four people have been ordered by the Central London Court to pay $1500 each, and the amount could rise to $7,000 after costs.
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E.U. To Throw Illegal Fire Sharers Offline?
The “three strikes” idea is used in a number of things. But in late amendments to an EU telecoms package to be voted on by the European Parliament, it might also apply to illegal file sharers.
The proposal is that those who been warned three times for illegal file sharing could see themselves banned from the Net, according to the BBC. Privacy groups claim that what was intended as a simple telecoms package, aimed at harmonizing services across the EU, has been hijacked by the anti-piracy lobby.
Malware Media File Hits Thousands
The largest trojan media file outbreak for three years has been reported by security company McAfee, with up to half a million victims so far. The fake file hasbeen distributed on file-sharing network Limewire and others in various guises: sometimes it’s a music file, at other times it could be a video or movie. However it’s sent, the results are the same. As soon as the user runs it, the trojan, Downloader-UA.h, installs adware that plagues the user’s computer with pop-up ads, and whichcould also seriously compromise the security of the machine. Whoever did it has been very thorough and clever. The file is written in several different languages and comes with a number ofdifferent titles, posing as popular music tracks such as “girls aloud st trinnians.mp3” or “pull over levert.mp3,” or it might offer the full version of a new movie or porn.Whatever the name, when it’s downloaded, the user is as to install a codec, PLAY_mp3.exe, in order to play the media file. The adware is in that codec. McAfee says that the file has beenfound on roughly 500,000 of the computers that report to them whenever malware is downloaded, but only about 10% of that number have actually installed the codec. Other companies have alsoreported the file, but not in such large numbers.
HP Offers Upline Backups and Sharing
Hewlett-Packard has announced HP Upline, a new subsciption-based online backup and file access service aimed at everyday computer users. With Upline, users will be able to back up, share, and access their digital files and content using any available Internet connection, saving their data in a secure, offsite location in the even their computers should be lost, damaged, or stolen. To launch the service, HP is offering small businesses and consumers limited Upline services free for one year.
Samsung Adds File Browsing to Phones
The phones are expected to enhance the productivity of businesspeople who are constantly on the go, but need to view business-critical information, such as PDF files, at any time and any place.
Data can be easily downloaded onto the phones in its original file format through a PC connection, similar to an external storage device. Microsoft Word and Excel files can be viewed, as well as PDF, JPG, and TXT files.
Hollywood Files More Web lawsuits
“The civil suits against unnamed “John Doe” defendants seek up to $150,000 per downloaded digital file and come as the film industry prepares for its annual Oscar telecast in Hollywood where awards for top films and stars are given out.
The studios claim they lose $3.5 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets.”
Sony PSP Update Is Dangerous
“Among the software which the file was configured to install were internet applications such as a web browser and email client, tools including a text to speech utility and a calculator, and a word processor and spreadsheet.
Sony has now confirmed that the installer is real, but has strongly advised users not to attempt to apply it, as it will “cause the PSP hardware to stop operating,” according to a spokesperson.”
Read more at Gamesindustry.biz
Driver Cleaner 3.2 Download
Driver Cleaner is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI and nVidia drivers. First you need to uninstall the drivers from the control panel than reboot and after that run the program. If you really want a good description of what steps you should do than you really need to read the readme file included in the zip file and installation as it contains a detailed description step by step.
Download now at MajorGeeks
Latest Bagle Worm Variant Includes Poem
The malicious program, known as Bagle.Z, has not spread very quickly, said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the antivirus emergency response team for Network Associates, which makes security software.
“I don’t anticipate this one to last long,” he said, adding that the variant has had some initial success because the worm attaches itself to e-mail in a control panel file, which is an executable not used by virus writers before. “It is not a file that most people would typically block, so it may penetrate into some environments.”
Read more at CNET News.com.
Anti Virus Firms Update To Detect Bagle
Recent versions of the Bagle worm have bypassed corporate gateway security measures because they are distributed in password-protected Zip files.
On Wednesday, antivirus vendors BitDefender and Kaspersky Labs both launched updates enabling their software to open any encrypted attachments using the password contained in the e-mail text. Once the file is decrypted, it is treated as an executable file and scanned normally.
Read more at CNET News.com.
