Tag archive: file

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.… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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. The phones feature a… Read More

“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… Read More

“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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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

Forty-two percent of the 300 respondents said they continue to use file sharing applications like Kazaa and networks like Gnutella, and 38.6 percent said they do their file swapping on company networks, according to the poll conducted by security provider Blue Coat Systems Inc. Nearly 70 percent of the peer-to-peer application users said they spend more than 16 minutes a day sharing files and close to 16 percent said they spend more… Read More

The worm is particularly difficult to root out because it lands in e-mail boxes using a number of different subject lines such as “re:details” or “re:here is the document.” “It arrives with an attached pif file (program information file) and it's already extremely widespread,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Plc. Read more at CNN.com.

One vulnerability affects popular antivirus products such as Kaspersky AntiVirus for Linux 5.0.1.0, Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall 3.8 Build 1130, and McAfee Virus Scan for Linux 4.16.0. Other versions may also be affected. A team of researchers from Aerasec Network Services and Security GmbH, based in Hohenbrunn, Germany, discovered that these products have trouble with so-called bzip2 bombs. When scanning compressed files for virus… Read More

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