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G4 VS. Pentium - Title Bout! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

TechTV Labs will pit Apple's Quicksilver G4 867MHz desktop against a comparable Windows machine this Friday. Details can be found at the Techlive.com Web site. A complete story will appear on the Web site following the face-off. Meanwhile, a TechTV article by James Hamilton notes that while Wintel machines may dominate the computing world, that doesn't mean they're better than Apple's systems. "There are many reasons for Wintel's iron grip on the computing world, including past lic

Malicious Program in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

A malicious program that masquerades as a Web page or HTML e-mail has dire consequences for those who fall for its ruse, antivirus experts said this week. Known as Trojan.Offensive (Virus info provided by McAfee/AVERT), the program takes advantage of a 10-month-old flaw in Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine to overwrite critical system settings--called the registry--leaving Windows computers unusable. The operating system on the victimized PC must be reinstalled or repaire

CostCo shows pricing on Windows XP in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Spotted this over on WinOSCentral's site, that CostCo have posted pricing for Windows XP as follows. Microsoft® Windows XP Home Edition $189.99 Microsoft® Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade $94.99 Microsoft® Windows XP Professional $279.99 Microsoft® Windows XP Professional Upgrade $184.99 Not that these prices look any more appealing...

CodeRed is here to stay; CodeRed.d discovered! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Code Red will be around 'forever', warns the security expert who has detected a new variation of the Code Red II worm A new permutation of the Code Red II worm was discovered on Friday, and experts say that Code Red is now unlikely ever to disappear. The new variant has been dubbed CodeRed.d, and exploits the same Index Server flaw in Microsoft's IIS software as the initial Code Red. According to Roger Thompson, technical director of malicious code research at anti-virus firm

PowerQuest; Partition Magic updated to v7.0 in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Looks like PowerQuest are not going to give a "free" Windows XP NTFS 5.1 update to those who have Partition Magic 6, instead they will "charge" $50 for the privilege of upgrading to v7.0 so that they can use the program within XP! Considering that the "full" version is going to cost $70, would it not be better to charge like $35 for an upgrade instead of $50 or even give users who have bought the software recently a free upgrade! PowerQuest--the inventor of on-the-fly hard-disk partit

Microsoft Says Hotmail Users Can Dial in for Email in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Microsoft Corp. will give its 20 million email users in Europe access to messages via their mobile phones, the company said on Thursday in unveiling a new alliance with European mobile operators. This is the first time Microsoft has made Hotmail accessible via mobile phones, the company said. "Maybe, with Microsoft coming to the table, it will make more user friendly,'' Lonergan said. "I think delivering e-mail via the SMS channel is a clever way forward, but I think GPRS will take mos

Microsoft introduces IIS lockdown tool in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Microsoft has released a new security tool that makes it simple to secure an IIS 4.0 or 5.0 web server. The tool, known as the IIS Lockdown Tool, allows web servers to quickly and easily be put into the right configuration – in which the server provides all of the services the administrator wants to provide, and no others. Customers can use this tool to instantly protect their systems against security threats that target web servers. The tool offers two operating modes. The defau

2GHz PCs ready for launch in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Nearly every major PC manufacturer will release new models sporting Pentium 4 chips running at 2GHz and 1.9GHz, according to several sources. The chips will appear in high-end consumer PCs as well as in corporate desktops and workstations. While the new PCs will increase the performance standards for desktop computers, they also will be fairly cheap, the result of a slow market for computers. Compaq Computer, for instance, will slide under the limbo pole with a Presario 7000T

Viruses Wiggle Into IM Chats in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Corey Bates was chatting on his MSN Messenger recently when his high school buddy Trey sent him a winking-face icon. Then Trey sent him another icon. Then another. Bates, an 18-year-old who will start his freshman year at Oklahoma University this month, knew it was uncharacteristic of Trey to flood him with winking faces--a popular "emoticon" used to color text-based IM conversations. His suspicions grew when the alias "george.w.bush@whitehouse.gov" suddenly flashed on his screen along with an i

XP! in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

Interim build 2542 of Windows XP has been released to testers. This means RTM hasn`t been released yet, but we are still expecting it soon. Now 30 days are allowed before activation is required and a rumor is that new product keys are required for use by Beta Testers, however there is no way to confirm this. This build is also on the bug reporting menu at windowsbeta.microsoft.com.

MSN Messenger Plus in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

The people from Patchou.com created a great extension and add-on that add some cool advantages for msn messenger which works with versions 3.6 and 4.0. Also an away message can now be selected like in ICQ: Features List Logging (historic). Automatically keeps a text file of your chats so that you can laugh of all the stupid things you said, some months after . This works quite like IRC logs (if you know what I am talking about). Personalized Away. If you w