An update in the popular Antivirus, McAfee, is causing Windows Xp to reboot continuously. So, far it has been reported that the problem is only with the McAfee corporate customers. The update, identified as DAT update 5958, identifies svhost.exe as a threat and deletes it. This results in the machine rebooting continuously.

Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that runs Wikipedia) reports that due to an overheating problem in the European data centers of Wikimedia, many of the servers in their farm turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, all user traffic to Wikipedia and sister project websites were  [...]

If you have not changed the default password of your internet router or DSL modem, now might be a good time to do it. Otherwise you may get an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris. No, not the actor. We are talking about the Chuck Norris botnet. Czech researchers have discovered that the Chuck Norris botnet [...]

A phishing attack, which some are calling as BZPharma Phishing Attack, has hit Twitter this weekend. The attack is designed to steal username and password of unsuspecting Twitter user. It is spread through direct message from a compromised account. Messages include – “Lol. this is me??“, “lol , this is funny.”, “ha ha, u look [...]

Kaspersky Lab has patented a hardware-based antivirus solution in the United States. The device is supposed to scan all data passed from the hard disk to the CPU and RAM, blocking any malicious code it detects. The device is said to be particularly effective at blocking rootkits or bootkits, complex threats that inject themselves into [...]

The Australian Parliament website was attacked by what is believed to be a DDoS attack today. The attack comes two days after a hacking group called Anonymous threatened to attack the Australian government websites over the Australian government’s attempt to impose internet censorship.

EA is going out a long way to promote its upcominggame Dante’s Inferno. They have even been reported to have hired “Christians” to carry out protest against the game at the recent E3. This publicity stunts, though successful, is quite controversial. Their latest promotion of the gamehowever is just brilliant – they ASCII arts and passwords in the source [...]

This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.

A UK based firm X2 Computing has announced that they will be releasing a tablet device. While releasing a tablet device is nothing newsworthy as almost everyone is releasing their own tablet devices nowadays, what is most noticeable is the name they choosed for the tablet – iTablet. Going back a few days, iTablet was [...]

Citrix Systems, a Florida based company providing virtualization and remote access softwares, has announced that the new version of their Citrix Reciever Software will be able bring to Microsoft’s Windows 7 Operating System in Apple’s iPad. Citix System says that their software will be available in time for the iPad’s shipping date.

G.Skill, the Taiwan based manufacturer of extreme performance memory and solid-state storage devices, has released its series of very high capacity ultra fast DDR3 RAM kits. Available in capacities of 8GB (2GBx4) and 12GB (2GBx6) and running at frequencies ranging from 1333 to 2200 MHz, these memory devices will be able to handle almost anything [...]

MSI appends another notebook to its ‘X-Slim’ series by launching the X430. Its their latest offering in the increasingly popular ‘ultra-thin feather-light’ category. MSI has gone with AMD’s second generation Athlon Neo X2 dual core processor ditching Intel. Although this move was somewhat expected, but nevertheless it did raise some eye-brows as most of MSI’s [...]

If the security firm Trend Micro is to be believed, another variant of the popular koobface worm has made its way into facebook again. But this time, it’s not only facebook that’s getting affected, other social-networking sites like MySpace, hi5, LiveJournal etc too are not being spared. If you recall, ‘koobface’ was first identified in [...]

Here’s another winner from Google, Google Sync, which lets you synchronize your contacts on the phone with your Google account. Now, you won’t have to worry when your phone gets lost! All your contacts would remain safe in the ‘Contacts’ in your Gmail.

At this year’s CeBit Trade Show , which is going on in Germany, Nvidia announced that they will soon be launching the mobile versions of the GTX series, their fastest GPUs till date. The line up includes GTX 280M, GTX 260M, GTS 160M and GTS 150M. Once made available, these GPUs will undoubtedly provide the [...]

A Brief History Conficker is a new and interesting breed of self updating computer worm. It is also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido. It was discovered in October 2008. It exploits a known security problem in Microsoft Windows Operating System. The operating systems vulnerable includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, [...]

Taking cues from two of the leading laptop makers, Dell and Acer’s move of venturing into smart-phone market, Finnish giant Nokia officially revealed that it might take the opposite route and make an entry into the laptop market. Nokia’s top-boss Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said, ” We are looking very actively also at this opportunity”.

Marvell, a California based company, has built a Linux computer which is about the same size as an electrical plug. The product named “SheevaPlug” is not just another mobile devive running Linux. It is a new class of computers concieved very recently called Plug Computer, which provides desktop class performance.  

Recently, Gmail was down! And all of us panicked, didn’t we. Though we were sure that all our messages were safe, but going by the way things are happening at Google these days, you never know! I know I’m exaggerating, something like this happening is 99.9% impossible, but this gives rise to my QoTD.

Yes, it has happened and no, I am not lying. A Polish developer named Marcin-PRV achieved this feat by sucessfully installing Microsoft Windows 3.1 on a Symbian S60 powered Nokia N95.

This post is in the 4th in the series ” World’s best Laptops “. You may like to read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4. Sager NP9262 : ” Sager has been an industry leader in the production of portable computers since its inception in 1985. In its two decades [...]

Netbooks are new in the market and people are bound to make mistakes while purchasing one. So here we present a few tips which will help you to purchase the best available netbook in the market.

This post is in the 3rd in the series ” World’s best Laptops “. You may like to read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4. Rock Xtreme SL8 : Rock was founded in the year 1992 in UK with a clear ambition: to bring cutting edge innovation to the portable [...]

This post is in the 2nd in the series ” World’s best Laptops “. You may like to read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4. Alienware Area-51 m17x / m17: Alienwares doesn’t need intoductions. So lets get straight to the specifications of Alienware’s current best offering.