The Intego security firm informs us about a new Trojan program discovered recently that targets all Mac OS X versions.



The program is specially designed to hijack web traffic and infects systems following to use these and send users to different phishing websites and display porn ads to generate advertising revenue.
The risk level of OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan is Critical and this is how it works.

It tries installs a video codec on your computer alleging that this will allow users to watch porn videos for free and after they click to view the content they are sent again to another page where they are advised to download a new version of this codec for playing the movies in QuickTime.

Worse than that, the users of Safari browser were checking the Safe Files After Downloading option but the disk image was automatically mounting and the installation was starting immediately after.


While the installation starts by the input of the administrator password this leads to root privileges gaining and is free to exploit the system.
For the moment security experts are working to find a solution.

Sometimes it is possible to take advantage of websites’ gaps and buy without paying the products.
It happened to one of my acquaintances a few months ago.
She bought a perfume from one of the most popular online stores with the best rating on BizRate.

This time it is about a different sum.

Quantina Moore-Perry from North Carolina could buy products from the QVC home-shopping store, spending in total $412,000.
How could she do that?
Well, she realized that the website has a gap and she exploited it.
Now you are probably wondering on what she spent so much money.
A woman decides very quickly when it is about shopping and lots of money.
She bought handbags, jewelry and electronics, but then she canceled the transactions.



She declared that she would have sold the 1,800 items bought without paying, on sites like eBay.
Currently, she is waiting her sentence after pleading guilty for the fraud.
Some honest people who bought things from her returned them to the store.

It is true that if Asustek will put Windows XP on its Eee PC this will make the price of the low-cost notebook to get doubled.



The existing models have Linux installed and the notebook versions with XP will be offered in biggest markets like those in US and Europe at a price of $1,000, while for other nations it will have a cost of $500.


The company will launch the Linux-based versions on November 1 in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Toronto and on the Internet stores from North America.
Germany will be the first European country that will have the pleasure to welcome the Eee PC in its stores on November 9.
Round November 15 big cities from China will get the hands on the notebook too.
100,000 Eee PC has already reached Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand, and 400,000 will follow to come, Asustek expecting the numbers to grow and hit 3.8 million pieces next year.

An Eee PC is indeed a low-cost, being sent at a starting price of $199 to different countries, but after reaching the new territory, the price raises at $300 after taxes are added.

At the launching, the producing company presents the Eee PC model version with Windows XP Professional and service Pack 2 having the same hardware parts as the Linux-based models. This version will be available in stores until the end of 2007.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is thinking in shutting down Whois, the service which allows anyone to find detailed information about any domain name.



ICANN doesn’t agree with how the system works, saying that no one should be obligated to show private data when registering on the Internet, because it will be very easily accessible to spammers.
The Whois database includes important information for law-enforcement officials and ISPs that are fighting continuously against fraud and use the data to reach copyright violators for example.

Along time, there were many complaints about spammers that use Whois information to send junk mails for website hosting.

While some are hundred percent convinced that the website should be shut down, other want just to force the website to stop providing all information and let the other sites decide which one wants to let users have free access to their information.
I personally agree with the latter. What do you think?

Today was the launching of the latest 2GB SD memory card from Eye-Fi that looks like this:



The card that looks like a standard SD memory card but with a Wi-Fi antenna is available at a price of $99 and allows you to store up to 1,000 images on it.


Jef Holove, chief executive of Eye-Fi, said that it was extremely complicated to build such a memory card and it took a couple of years to realize it.
The cards will fit very well with the types of cameras that are compatible with the SD type.
Its users have now the possibility to use these cards and upload pictures over a Wi-Fi network to 17 different websites, including Flickr, Facebook, Kodak Gallery, Wal-Mart, Picasa Web Albums, and MySpace.

More interesting for you to know is that with the use of such a card you can bypass the transfer of your pictures to your PC through a USB port following to upload them manually to the websites.
And this will happen with less stress to say so, because you don’t even have to turn your computer on.