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latest detected virus [Click Me]

Name : W32/IRCbot.worm!MS05-039
Type: Virus
SubType: Internet Relay Chat

When the file is run the virus copies itself to the Windows System directory (e.g. C:\Windows\System32\ on Windows XP) as WINTBP.EXE. The file can be run automatically by exploiting the MS05-039 vulnerability or by a person directly executing the worm.

Registry keys are created to load the worm at startup:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsCurrentVersion\Run "wintbp.exe" = wintbp.exe

Indications of Infection
If this worm is run on a system which has not yet been patched for the MS05-039 vulnerability, it will continually reboot.

Method of Infection
This threat scans for MS05-039 exploitable systems. When a vulnerable system is found, it uses a buffer overflow to write the worm file to that machine via a TFTP upload on port 8594. Blocking this port via McAfee Desktop Firewall or McAfee Personal Firewall will prevent infection even if the buffer overflow is not prevented.

Mircrosoft Codenames

Microsoft codenames are the codenames given by Microsoft to products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions ofWindows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions prior to the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available.

Codename------------------Final Name
Janus-----------------------Windows 3.1
Chicago---------------------Windows 95
Memphis--------------------Windows 98
Mellennium------------------Windows ME
Cairo-------------------------Windows NT 4.0
Asteriod----------------------Windows 2000 + Service Pack 1
Janus-------------------------Windows 2000 (64 bit)
Whistler----------------------Windows XP
Springboard------------------Windows Xp + Service Pack 2
Symphony--------------------Windows Xp Media Center Edition 2005
Whistler Server---------------Windows 2003 Server
Longhorn---------------------Windows Vista
Blackcomb--------------------N/A

Isnt this intersting, every1 gets a nick ;) hehe

The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started...[Click Me]

Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
Jerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors.
Due to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million.
Realizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees.
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.

Q&A: The Linux/Open Source Software Lab on Microsoft's Redmond Campus

Q&A: The Linux/Open Source Software Lab on Microsoft's Redmond Campus: In addition to providing a center for open-source analysis, testing and benchmarking, Microsoft Platform Technology Strategy Director Bill Hilf says that the research lab

TWEAKS

Read and write to your Linux partitions in Windows

If you dual-boot Windows and Linux and are sick of not being able to access data from your Linux partitions in Windows, thenExt2 IFS(Installable File System) for windows is what you've been waiting for. It's a driver that lets Windows natively mount Linux Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems just as if they were FAT32 or NTFS volumes.

Download link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3868058/Ext2IFS_1_10a.exe.html
Size: 456 KB
Operating system: Windows NT4.0/2000/XP (x86 processors only)

Google eyes to IM

Google acquires Meetro, i guess thy`ll come soon with a messenger

People have been talking about Google releasing their own IM software since, I think, the beginning of time, but internetnews.com is reporting that it's got to be what they're up to now.

You see, this week Google is expected to announce its acquisition of Meetroduction, the company which makes Meetro, which is some sort of IM client that supports multiple protocols (e.g. AIM, Jabber, ICQ) and uses wi-fi mojo to find new buddies for you based on your physical location.

I can't help but wonder if something more is going on here, though. If Google just wanted an IM client, why wouldn't they have just started with Jabber of even Gaim? Meetro seems like an odd purchase, unless they've got something special in mind for that wi-fi mojo, and I sincerely hope they do. If anybody can make an IM client with a difference and actually get people to use it, it's Google

Yahoo messenger

Abbeey Khamosh!!

wel well thats the new audible in yahoo

The Indian version of yahoo messenger has cool n funky Indian style yahoo audibles.. remember d skiny fellow shouting "duuuuuuuuude!!"

Simple go here n get it now: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/

I captured few

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Ebook on McGraw Hill`s - How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview in pdf format
Download link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/3848658/McGH_-_How_to_Ace_the_Brainteaser_Interview.pdf.html

Size:1.79 MB

I hope u peeps know how to use the rapidshare link to download, well if not follow the steps,, hey dont worry they r as simple as cliking NEXT button in windows.. hehhe

1. Goto above link and now click on FREE button
2. Click the link wait for few seconds until the timer goes ZERO, and the direct download is displayed

plz do comment more d comments more d links, u can even drop a request for any particular.
My email ID : the_x_boy83@yahoo.com

The Anti-Chain Letter

The Anti-Chain Letter

WITH STUPIDITY, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

This letter has been sent to you to stop you from sending out chain letters. The original was written in the 3rd century A.D. by a deranged member of the Most Holy Post. That version vanished during the Spanish Inquisition (Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition !!!!!!!!!). More recently, it was communicated telepathically to Shirley MacLaine by monks on the planet Mongo in the eighth dimension. Now it has been sent to you. Good things will soon be happening to you if you follow the instructions given in this letter.

This is no joke! If you do what this letter says to do, every person who owes you money will repay you. The IRS will never audit you again. Hugh Hefner will invite you to house-sit at the playboy mansion while he and the missus go on a six month vacation. Finally, you will be spotted by a head hunter and whisked off into the fast paced life of an insurance salesman in Kansas.
To get all of this good fortune, you must keep this letter for the next five years. If at any time during that time you receive a chain letter, don't send out any copies of it. Instead, you must send this anti-chain letter back to the person who sent you the chain letter (If you don't know who sent it, send a copy of this letter to a random person). At the end of five years, do the following 'de-briefing' ceremony, and you will be done:

1. Throw salt over your shoulder.
2. Thow salt over Zha Zha Gabor's shoulder.
3. Throw Zha Zha over your shoulder.
4. Walk under a ladder.
5. Do the rhumba under a ladder.
6. Pray the rosary.
7. Pray the zippity-doo-dah, zippity-ay.
8. Drink Vitameatavegimin (3 tablespoons at a time)
9. Mix 2 frogs, 3 locks of Michael Jackson's hair, 2 turtledoves, and the remains of this letter in a cauldron and boil at 375 degrees for 2 hours and 3 minutes.
10. Place the whole mixture in the microwave on saute for 6:53 and place in serving bowls, then chill.
11. Gargle, then spit.

DO NOT IGNORE THIS LETTER. If you do, nuclear war is a definite possibility. You will develop psoriasis, gout, hemmhoroids, herpes, and/or a common cold. Some day you will definitely die if you ignore this letter!!!!! Furthermore, your next-door neighbor will start a manure farm in his backyard and begin playing the bagpipe (late at night usually). You may even be forced to spend an evening with an accountant and an insurance salesman discussing their work.

A police officer from Temecula won the publisher's clearing house sweepstakes. A girl in Chicago got the letter and continued sending out chain letters anyway. She died a month later when a ream of paper fell off a truck and crushed the Fahrvervgnugen out of her Volkswagen Bug. Madonna obeyed the letter and discovered the razor. A lot of women didn't follow the letter's instructions and became mothers of Wilt Chamberlain's illegitimate children.
Don't send out those chain letters and see what happens. You will be shocked to find that none of their curses come true. The person you send this anti-chain letter to will be heartily amused, and besides, its much easier to send out one copy of this than 5 or 20 copies of some dreary chain letter.

Do note the following: All of the passengers of the Titanic received this letter. When someone on the boat started a chain letter going, they all ignored this letter and passed it along, and the result is history. Dick Grayson carried out the letter's instructions and became Robin, Batman's Boy Wonder. Both Mike Tyson and Robin Givens received this letter and threw it away. Then they got married. Clarence Thomas followed the letter's instructions. Charles Keating didn't.
In 1987, the letter was received by a young woman in California. It was very faded and barely readable. She promised herself that she would not send out any chain letters. A year later she forgot, and when she received a chain letter, she faithfully typed out the ten copies of the letter and placed them in envelopes. She developed breast cancer, and the doctors told her she would lose both breasts. While rummaging through her desk looking for a bottle of sleeping pills, she found this letter. She immediately threw away all of the copies of the chain letter she had prepared. The next day, the doctors told her they had mistaken someone else's X-ray for hers, and that she was perfectly healthy. Now she's a showgirl in Las Vegas.
Remember, send no chain letters. Do not ignore this letter.

Few Google hacks

Use google to find following section

Songs:

This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings.
====================== Index========================

1. Key
2. Directories
3. Individual Songs
   ---------------------------Section 1 - KEY-------------------------
   You this are just some definitions I will use below.
   can be any of the following :

1. "index of"
2. "last modified"
3. "parent of"

can be any of the following :

1. "mp3"
2. "shn"
3. "wma"

can be any of the following :

• the name of the album in quotes
• the name of the artist in quotes
• be daring and leave it blank and have lots of links
• be creative!

1. 
   (inurl:) is optional and may be omitted and in fact most be omitted if not using a search tool other than google.
2. 
   (intitle:) can be used in place of (inurl:) and has a similar effect again you must be useing google.
3. 
   (-filetype:txt) adding this to the end of your search string can filter some false positives.
4. 
   (-playlist) adding this to the end of your search string can filter some false positives.

--------------------------- Section 2 - Directories---------------------------
These are the most common way that mp3s are stored on the www, you should try these strings first.
String Format :

Type 1 : + (inurl:) +

Type 2 : + (intitle:) +

Example Strings :-

"index of" + "mp3" + "radiohead"

"index of" + mp3 + "grandaddy"

"index of" + inurl:mp3 + "beatles"

"index of" + intitle:mp3 + beatles

"last modified" + "shn" + "dylan"

"last modified" + inurl:shn + "bob dylan"

"parent of" + inurl:wma + "grandaddy"
Suggestions :- Try ("index of" + "mp3" + "band name") first it is usually the mosteffective.

------------------------ Section 3 - Individual Songs----------------------
Format : .mp3 -playlist -filetype:txt
Examples :-

1. "ok_computer_live.mp3" -playlist -filetype:txt
2. "*ok_computer*.mp3" -playlist -filetype:txt
3. kid*a.mp3 -playlist -filetype:txt

Ebooks:

• ebook intitle:”Title” filetype:pdf { //Change the Title according to your Need }
• +(”index of”) +(”/ebooks””/book”) +(chmpdfziprar) +apache { //Here, apache should be replaced accordingly }

To get a Definition:

define:

define:blog

soo wht r u waiting start googling !!

Adidas acquires Reebok[Click Me]

3rd August 2005 will be marked in sports industry's history as two giants merge to form a sports goods manufacturing TITAN

http://www.pressnews.net/adidasgroup/

what is in the number 747 for Boeing

Legend has it that the boeing 707 got its name from the frequent use of the values of sine and cosine of 45 degrees by the engineers working on it. The value of sin 45 = cos 45 = 0.707106. That's how the 707 got its name.
The later models were successively named 717,727,737,747, etc. thus we have the Boeing 747, strange, but true - probably!