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TomTom GPS Systems Come With Trojan Horse

Go 910s shipped over the past few months have a virus that infects PCs when connected.

If you've picked up a TomTom Global Positioning System device over the past few months, you may have bought more than you bargained for. TomTom International confirmed on Monday that some of its latest Go 910 devices have shipped with a virus preinstalled.
The infected systems were all manufactured during a one-week period around October 2006, TomTom said in a statement posted to its Web site on Monday. The affected systems are running version 6.51 of the TomTom software.
Small Number of Systems Affected
The company didn't say how it managed to install malware on its products, but it warned that infected versions of the Go will try to copy the malicious software to a PC when connected. News of the infection was first reported by Daniweb.com on Sunday.
TomTom rated the malware as "low risk" and said that it is detected by many antivirus products. A "small, isolated number" of systems are affected, TomTom said.
Infected Go 910s include Trojan horse and virus software that has been blocked by antivirus vendors since June 2006, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior research engineer with Kaspersky Lab.
One of the files, called Backdoor.Win32.Small.lo, uses the Windows AutoRun feature to make Windows run the other malicious software on the device, once it's been connected to the PC, he said.
Following Apple's Lead
TomTom isn't the first company to make this kind of mistake. Apple accidentally shipped malware with some of its iPods last October, for example.
The malicious software often gets installed when an infected PC is used to test or configure the devices, Schouwenberg said.
However, the fact that the TomTom malware had been known for months when it was installed on the GPS devices reflects badly on the company, Schouwenberg said. "We found the malware in June," he said. "It means that someone around the product line is either not using antivirus, or they're using bad antivirus."

Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

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It also lets you back up your folders' hidden states in case you have a system problem. And like the name says, it's free.

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Vista Sales Could Boost PC Recycling

As businesses and consumers upgrade to meet Vista's demands, old hardware needs to be dealt with.

As customers line up to buy new PCs capable of running Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, vendors like Dell and Hewlett-Packard are preparing to process a surge of discarded, outmoded computers.

Dell advises its customers running Vista Premium to use a PC loaded with a dual-core processor and 2GB of memory. As customers upgrade to meet the new standard, they face the question of how to dispose of their outmoded machines without dumping toxic lead, mercury, cadmium, and chromium into local landfills.

Large Vendors Offer Free Recycling

"As enterprises deploy Vista, they may increase their rate of replacing, refreshing or updating PCs, and we're certainly happy to work with our customers on the disposition of machines they take out of service," said Michael Cuno, a spokesman for HP.

Vendors such as Apple and Dell offer free recycling for anyone returning those companies' old PCs. Dell also runs a network that donates working computers to local nonprofit groups. HP directs consumers to drop-off points at retail stores, but advises its business customers to lease their hardware instead of owning it.

Dell said it was too early to tell if Vista adoptions would be fast enough to drive a surge in consumer recycling, but the company did say it had recorded an increase from 22.7 million pounds of equipment collected from customers in 2004 to 39 million in 2005. The challenge in predicting future rates is that individuals don't always dispose of their old hardware immediately, said Dell spokesman Bryant Hilton.

"We often see, at least anecdotally, consumers who purchase a new computer 'pass down' the old system within the household," Hilton said. "If you have the latest and greatest running your home entertainment center, maybe the system that still works just fine but is no longer cutting-edge is good for other household uses. What we of course do not want is the old computer to end up in a closet or storage for the next several years, and that's where the challenge of consumer education comes in."

Castoffs Create Business Opportunities

Corporate IT managers who discard outmoded PCs face more complex challenges than consumers, since they must also worry about protecting valuable trade secrets and employees' personal data saved on hard drives, and since environmental safety regulations vary widely between states or countries, said Jim O'Grady, managing director of technology value solutions for HP Financial Services Americas.

O'Grady's division treats that stream of discarded computers as a business opportunity, finding new users to buy 94 percent of the 600,000 computers and parts delivered annually to HP's facility in Andover, Massachusetts. The factory sends only 6 percent to its recycling plants in Roseville, California and Nashville, Tennessee. Worldwide, HP handles over 1 million PCs returned at the end of their leases each year.

That number could jump in 2007, since customers scramble to upgrade their hardware after each jump in technology--such as the launch of multicore processors, the advent of flat-panel over CRT monitors, or the release of Windows Vista.

"That's what we saw with dual-core [processors]; it made a big difference, the adjustment had been fairly steady before then," he said.


HP Accepts All Comers

HP accepts hardware from all vendors, often receiving servers built by competitors two decades ago. In the Andover warehouse, workers peel shrink-wrap off pallets loaded with CRT monitors, stacks of Toshiba Satellite and T3100 notebooks, EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage arrays, and servers like the Appro, Digital Vax, and Compaq Alpha. Dell Latitude notebooks and Compaq Deskpro desktops are piled on shelves, with their peripherals sorted into nearby crates.

The technicians clean dust and rust off the frames, and decide whether they can resell the entire machine or just its most valuable parts, like the processor or optical drive. They prepare hard drives for resale by wiping personal data clean with either powerful magnets, software overwrites, or physical destruction.

Most PCs never reach recycling stations. HP says that owners turned in only 7 million of the 70 million computers that became obsolete in 2003, delivering the rest to municipal solid waste handlers, many in developing nations overseas that lack the environmental regulations or technology to process such toxic e-waste.

Ben Ames, IDG News Service

PC Task Force Alert

Because of the earthquake in Taiwan PLDT is now forced to reroute the Internet traffic and this is now causing delays and slow internet. PLDT don’t know when it will be up and running again. I believe it will take a week to get back to normal speed again.

Mother Nature triggered the largest telecommunications outage in years, cutting off or slowing telephone and Internet traffic in Asia from Beijing to Bangkok.

A ship will be in position in a few days. It then takes three to five days to repair each cable, but mudslides set off by the earthquake can complicate matters by covering the cables, making them harder to retrieve from the bottom.

The ruptures are more than 10,800 feet below sea level, too deep for the remote-controlled submersibles that otherwise would find the cables. A ship will drag grapnels along the bottom to find them.

The cables on the deep ocean floor are just two-thirds of an inch, a testament both to the immense data capacity of optical fiber and the fragility of the links that form the global telecommunications network.

VISTA Backup and Restore Center

The Backup and Restore Center gives you one place where you can work with all the backup-related features available in your edition of Windows Vista. For example, the File and Folder backup and restore wizards are prominently displayed for easy access.

System Restore
System Restore was introduced in Windows XP to allow people to restore their computers to a previous state without losing personal data files (for example, Microsoft Office Word documents, graphics files, and e-mail messages). You don't have to worry about taking system snapshots with System Restore—it automatically creates easily identifiable restore points, which you can use to revert your system to the way it was at a previous time. Restore points are created both at the time of significant system events (such as when you install applications or drivers) and periodically (each day). You can also create and name restore points at any time.

System Restore in Windows XP is based on a file filter that watches file changes for a certain set of file extensions, and copies files before they are overwritten. If you encounter a problem, you can roll back the system files and the registry to those from a previous date when the system was known to have worked properly.

In Windows Vista, System Restore allows recovery from a greater range of changes than in Windows XP. The file filter system for system restore used in previous versions of Windows is replaced with a new approach: Now, when a restore point is requested, a shadow copy of a file or folder is created. A shadow copy is essentially a previous version of the file or folder at a specific point. Windows Vista can request restore points automatically, or do so when you ask. When the system needs to be restored, files and settings are copied from the shadow copy to the live volume used by Windows Vista. This improves integration with other aspects of backup and recovery and makes System Restore even more usable.

Windows Backup
Windows Vista helps you easily back up PC settings, files, and applications when and where you choose, with the convenience of automated scheduling.

Windows Vista provides a backup experience that is more comprehensive and even easier to use than the basic backup utility included in Windows XP. The new Windows Backup feature gives you more choices for storing your backed-up information. You can choose to back up to CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, an external hard disk connected to your PC by USB or IEEE 1394, another hard disk on your PC, or to another PC or server connected to your network.

Windows Vista makes the backup process even easier than it is in Windows XP. You no longer have to remember to regularly back up your data. You can use a simple wizard to schedule when and where you want it backed up.

Of course, backup is only as useful as the recovery experience, which has been expanded in scope and usefulness in Windows Vista. A wizard helps you select the files or folders to restore and prompts you for restore media. Then it restores the files you select.

Have you ever accidentally saved over a file you were working on? Accidental file deletion or modification is a common cause of data loss. Windows Vista includes another useful innovation to help you protect your data: Previous Versions. This feature automatically creates point-in-time copies of files as you work, so you can quickly and easily retrieve versions of a document you may have accidentally deleted.

ExpressCard Technology: An Overview

As many knows the PCMCIA cards are now being replaced by ExpressCards and this is a problem for many since they already have bought PCMCIA cards for their Laptops. If they now will buy a new Laptop the PCMCIA card will not fit since they now are replaced with the ExpressCard slots.

In the Philippines PLDT and Smart have only Weroam PCMCIA cards so a new Laptop today can not avail off the Weroam service. I really hope PLDT and Smart will make an effort to get Weroam on ExpressCards ASAP.

Here is a really good link that explains everything about the new ExpressCard so you will understand what it is all about. Hope it will help you and guide you.

Toby

http://www.tigerdirectblog.com/2006/12/25/expresscard-technology-an-overview/