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Malaysia reports fresh H5N1 bird flu case |
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by Vijandren Ramadass
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Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:06 AM |
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Monday reported its first case of
H5N1 bird flu since November 2004, with the death of 40 chickens in
central Selangor state last week.
But Agriculture Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said it was an isolated
case and that the public need not worry as no human was affected.
"Tests conducted confirmed the death of the free range chickens
was caused by H5N1 avian influenza virus," he said in a statement
issued through state news agency Bernama.
Source : Reuters/Yahoo!
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Ewww! Don't touch that mouse! |
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by shockk
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Thursday, 16 February 2006 11:16 AM |
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Computer mouses found in cyber cafes have been ranked as the second most bacteria-infested items in a list of commonly touched objects.
The survey, carried out by the Korea Consumer Protection Board, found shopping cart handles to be the worst of the worst. Typically, they contain an average of 1100 colony forming units (CFU) of bacteria per 10 sq cm.
The computer mouses, were found to have an average of 690 CFU - more than twice the concentration found on doorknobs and handles in public toilets.
The detected bugs include all kinds of bacteria including pathogenic ones.
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WCG Malaysia needs you! Yes you! |
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by Ci-Yang Gee
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Monday, 13 February 2006 11:01 PM |
So, you may think that WCG 2005 is over. Nay my friend, it is still
ongoing, albeit it's just a contest on the WCG website!
Vote up to 3 times for the best national website! 30 sets of the official WCG 2005 Grand Finals Mouse and Mousepads are up for grabs for 30 lucky votes who are randomly selected!
Also, vote and you'll automatically become the 2005 supporter of the national
website(s) that you voted for. Please leave your opinions to make your
supporting website(s) become even better! 5 Samsung Yepp MP3 players are up for grabs for the supporters who leave the best opinion!
Just head over here to win yourself prizes!
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware Deleting Norton Anti-Virus |
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by Vijandren Ramadass
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Monday, 13 February 2006 02:18 AM |
Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program is causing troubles for people who also use Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus software; apparently, a recent update to Microsoft's anti-spyware application flags Norton as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it. According to several different support threads over at Microsoft's user groups forum, the latest definitions file from Microsoft "(version 5805, 5807) detects Symantec Antivirus files as PWS.Bancos.A (Password Stealer)." When Microsoft Anti-Spyware users remove the flagged Norton file as prompted, Symantec's product gets corrupted and no longer protects the user's machine. The Norton user then has to go through the Windows registry and delete multiple entries (registry editing is always a dicey affair that can quickly hose a system if the user doesn't know what he or she is doing) so that the program can be completely removed and re-installed. Source/ Full Story : washingtonpost.com
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E-mail scammers updating tactics |
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by Andrew Kok
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Friday, 10 February 2006 02:01 PM |
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
RE: ASSISTANCE REQUIRED
I AM GENERAL OLOLI BUTAN FROM THE ROYAL NIGERIAN MALAYSIAN POLICE FORCE AND I HAVE AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS PROPOSITION FOR YOU:
PETALING JAYA: Get-rich quick e-mail scams that solicit small amounts of money purportedly in exchange for large returns are not new to Internet users in the country.
However, fraudsters have recently upped the ante by manipulating names of some local law enforcement agencies in a bid to convince unsuspecting e-mail recipients of their legitimacy, said the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT).
On the other hand, MyCERT also states that the number of reported spam cases has fallen by 35% last year. I guess there's only so much sperm-count enhancers and breast enlargement products that one can buy. Source: The Star In-Tech
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"GameAxis" game reviews sucks |
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by Vijandren Ramadass
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Thursday, 09 February 2006 09:51 AM |
If you think you can do a better job when it comes to game reviews, GameAxis would like to have you on board as a monthly contributor. No, seriously we do. The job description is simple. If you love playing video games (any console, big or small, new or old) and you can articulate your experience your experience and thoughts into words, GameAxis wants you! But please, only those with a decent (don’t have to be very powderful though) command of the English language need apply. Oh, commitment and speed of delivery are also very important. Basically, the mag is looking for contributors AKA part-timers that have a REAL passion for writing game reviews on a regular basis. The pay will be in accordance to your writing skills and level of commitment. If you can write well, we won’t shortchange you. In fact, we’ll pay you even more to keep you on. |
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Google Testing PayPal Killer GBuy |
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by Vijandren Ramadass
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Wednesday, 08 February 2006 09:35 PM |
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When Jeff Jordan learned last May that Web-search leader Google Inc. was building its own Internet-payment service, he reacted swiftly.
Mr. Jordan, who is president of eBay Inc.'s PayPal online-payments unit, immediately asked employees to unearth information about the Google service. Soon, PayPal employees were monitoring blogs, news reports and other data for information about Google's progress in payments. PayPal staffers even gleaned details about Google's plans during regular calls to customers who were eager to dish about how Google had reached out to them.
"It's a very legitimate competitive threat," says Mr. Jordan, 47 years old. "It's hard not to pay attention to what Google is doing."
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10,000 Malaysians injured annually thanks to computer use |
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by Andrew Kok
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Monday, 06 February 2006 10:30 PM |
Are you one of them?
"About 10,000 Malaysians who use computers in their workplace suffer
upper limb injuries a year and to this the National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) proposes the need to promote
usage of ergonomics in workplaces."
It's with a sense of irony that I'm typing this while hunched over a laptop on my living room floor with a posture that Quasimodo would be proud of.
"While a study by Niosh indicated 61.4 per cent of workers who used
computers in their workplace suffered from lower back pain, shoulder
and neck pain, while 70.6 per cent of them complain of eyestrain."
What was unavailable were the percentage of those suffering the depilating disease known as "Freecell Finger" that afflicts thousands of bored office workers worldwide.
Source: Bernama
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The Growing Power of Google |
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by Ryan Ratilal
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Monday, 06 February 2006 05:02 PM |
Pocket-lint has reported that Google has dropped BMW Germany's website from its search engine, as a punishment for using dirty tactics to boost its page rank. This is damaging for BMW Germany, but the bigger issue is the power of one Internet search company, Google, with its market share of over 40%, to influence public website access.
Slashdot reported it, and user comments range from derision of Google to support. What say you?
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by badawi_rocks
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Friday, 03 February 2006 01:51 PM |
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People didn't lose any time in finding bugs in the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 7.
It's been but a day since Microsoft publicly released a test version of
Internet Explorer 7, but Internet news groups and blogs are already
teeming with bug reports. Also, one security researcher claims he found
a security vulnerability in the new Web browser.
Issues reported several times include compatibility
problems with McAfee security software and trouble installing the
browser due to unnamed anti-spyware and antivirus tools. Some testers
also said using certain features or surfing to specific Web sites
caused the browser to hang or crash. Source: ZDNet
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New worm relies on old trick |
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by Vijandren Ramadass
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Wednesday, 01 February 2006 10:50 AM |
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"There are a lot of people who are going
to be very unhappy on the third of February," said Professor Merrick
Furst from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.
That's when
the Kama Sutra computer worm will begin destroying critical files on
infected computers. And hundreds of thousands of machines may have the
worm lurking within their Windows operating system, ready to be
unleashed on February 3 and the third of every month thereafter.
Experts
say Windows Office documents, Word documents, Excel spread sheets, and
PDFs (portable document format) are among the files that will be
"overwritten." That means the data will be changed and corrupted, and
the original information will no longer be accessible.
Experts say Windows Office documents, Word documents, Excel spread
sheets, and PDFs (portable document format) are among the files that
will be "overwritten." That means the data will be changed and
corrupted, and the original information will no longer be accessible.
While files that have simply been deleted can sometimes be recovered; overwritten files are usually lost for good.
Source: CNN
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