Aug 18
While reading emails today I noticed someone named Char emailed me to inform me of a Vista rumor. This might be true. With the many people who bought Windows Vista when it was first released back in January earlier this year (2007), people started to notice problems with Vista. Wanting to figure out what they can do either reading up on it or listening to conversations they might have heard about SP1 being released and taking care of those problems. Hearing that Vista SP1 is their only hope. Me with a number of people want to stay with Vista to see what is to come of it or at least stay around long enough to see what happens with Vista after SP1 is released.
Char informed me that eventually when SP1 is released it might cost us. Yes, I did say that we will have to pay for it. Keep in mind this is just a rumor. If it does come true how many of us will actually pay for it, and how many of us will move to something free like Linux? How many of us will remember what was like when Vista first came out with the bugs it had and feel convenient enough to give or money to Microsoft once again and trust that our money is going to buy us SP1 without any problems and will also fix all of our problems we are experiencing with Vista.
Keep in mind this is still just a rumor. Thank you Char for the news
Aug 03
The music industry must get a kick out of this. A virus that seeks out Mp3’s. Could they have had something to do in making it? No, I don’t think so. I could be wrong. Either way I am sure they are enjoying it.
Security experts have discovered a worm that hunts down and deletes Mp3 files on infected PCs.
Security companies say the worm is only low risk, although its unusual payload could give a nasty surprise to an ardent music fan. The motivation of the hackers who created it is unclear.
“The authors of this worm are more likely to be teenage mischief makers than the organized criminal gangs we typically see authoring financially-motivated malware these days,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for the security vendor Sophos PLC.
“As such, it’s not something we would lose an awful lot of sleep over, but there are some lessons that computer users should learn to minimize the chances of infection,” he said.
The worm spreads via removable flash drives, reminiscent of the way viruses spread via floppy disks decades ago. That may be an attempt by the authors of the worm to bypass e-mail filters and Web gateway filters that block malicious software, Cluley said.
Symantec Corp., which calls the worm W32.Deletemusic, said in an advisory the worm copies itself to all drives on a PC. It also creates and autorun file to start itself whenever a user accesses a drive.
The worm affects PC’s running all versions of Windows, Symantec said.
I don’t think that the music industry is behind this. Does it help them? 100% Yes. I am sure the music industry is thinking this will take care of illegally downloaded music, but it will also harm music download via iTunes, or any other legal music downloading service.