A maker of wireless set-top boxes has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple, claiming the company hired away three employees with knowledge of technology that would be included in Apple TV. Apple hired three former Universal Electronics employers during the development of Apple TV. Each of these employees had access to (Universal’s) confidential and proprietary [...]
01.23.09 | Software Review | Computerexpert
The scammers began to see serious problems with their phishing scams. They started realizing that more and more of their phoney “phishing” e-mails were being blocked. Security researchers had spent the previous year closely studying botnet networks of infected computers. This was creating a problem for phishers — online fraudsters who set up fake Web [...]
01.23.09 | Computer Safety Tip, Windows Vista Tips | Computerexpert
Microsoft is rushing out an emergency patch, while other browser makers are releasing their own updates as well as people worldwide go online to do their shopping. Opera released version 9.63 of their browser, fixing several security issues. The most significant ones allow arbitrary code execution, making these just as critical as the Internet Explorer [...]
01.23.09 | Software Review | Computerexpert
According to a Channel Web report, when you try to run McAfee Total Protection in the Windows 7 beta, an error message pops up: “The version of Windows installed on this machine is not supported. Please refer to the product documentation for a list of supported operating systems.” Windows 7 beta is not the only [...]
01.23.09 | Windows 7 Tips | Computerexpert
EMSI Software has released “a-squared Free 4.0″, a free tool designed to find and destroy viruses, Trojans, and spyware. The product is free for non-commercial use on any number of computers, and it will remain free in the long term. It runs under Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003/2008, and has been redesigned [...]
01.15.09 | Computer News | Computerexpert
Adode Systems Inc. issued an alert warning users of Flash Player on Linux systems that a vulnerability could allow an attacker to take contol of an affected system. The fault is in Adobe Flash Player for Linux 10.0.12.36 and Adobe Flash Player for Linux 9.0.1510.0. An attacker could exploit the fault by passing a malicious [...]
01.15.09 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
Inside almost every Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell Netbook beats an Intel silicon core. Intel accounts for both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) – the latter in the form of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950. Nvidia wants in. It maintains that Intel-only Netbooks choke on high-quality multimedia content and, as [...]
01.15.09 | Computer News | Computerexpert
Is it time for Apple’s Mighty Mouse to get an upgrade? A report noted that a 2007 patent application call for an “arbitrary shaped graspable member” that would utilize positioning and multi-touch detection to interpret a user’s movement. It appears that the button would be replaced by a multi-touch trackpad. The prototype’s aluminum body is [...]
01.15.09 | Computer News | Computerexpert
YOUR-SISTER-NAKED-LOLZ.COM (aka YOUR SISTER NAKED LOLZ) is another skype software virus that is spreading from one small
01.14.09 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
hahaa-lesbians-cats.pif or hahaa lesbians cats is a latest skype software infection that is spreading from one small file. The file hahaa-lesbians-cats.pif virus send it self to all your contact list that you have in Skype. If user accepts that file he will be infected also, and the virus will start infect all of his contacts [...]
01.13.09 | Computer Safety Tip | Computerexpert
