F-Secure Corporation provides the special disinfection utility to clean Nyxem.e infection from a computer. This disinfection utility is called F-Force and it can be downloaded from F-Secure’s web and ftp sites:

ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/tools/f-force.zip
http://www.f-secure.com/tools/f-force.zip

The utility is distributed only in a ZIP archive that contains the following files:

• f-force.exe – the main executable file
• eult.rtf – End User License Terms document
• readme.rtf – Readme file in RTF format
• readme.txt – Readme file in ASCII format

To unpack the archive please use the WinZip or similar archiver.

IMPORTANT! Please make sure that you read the End User License Terms document (Eult.rtf) and the Readme file (either Readme.txt or Readme.rtf) before using the F-Force utility!

The F-Force utility needs the archive with the latest updates in order to function properly. The archive’s name is LATEST.ZIP and it should be downloaded and put into the same folder where the F-Force utility is located. This archive with the latest updates can be downloaded from these locations:

http://download.f-secure.com/latest/latest.zip
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/updates/latest/latest.zip

Please note that the F-Force utility can disinfect only certain malicious programs. Besides the utility does not scan inside archives. So after cleaning a computer with the F-Force utility it is recommended to scan all hard drives with F-Secure Anti-Virus and the latest updates to make sure that no infected files remain there.

A trial version of F-Secure Anti-Virus and the latest updates can be downloaded from F-Secure’s website:

http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/list.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/updates.shtml
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For those of you that really missed Netscape Communicator, this will be a welcome addition to your arsenal. Seamonkey 1.0 has it all, a web browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application. Basically, all the great tools Communicator had, with some new bells and whistles from the fine folks at Mozilla.org. You can get your copy here.

I got a new toy for Christmas. It’s a Samsung SC-D353 Digital Video camera. It has a 1gb 40x memory stick, takes Mini-DV tapes, and has S-video, DV, and USB outs. So, I shot a few seconds of video, plugged the USB cable into the trusty powerbook, and… nothing.
Not even an error sound.
Odd… The powerbook can do *anything*. (can’t it?) hmm….
Ok, the first thing that I noticed was the camera was set to use USB 2. I changed the USB setting to use 1.1 with the camera’s setup menu, and now I can mount the memory stick as USB storage. COOL!!!! (told ya they can do anything…) There’s my .avi files, ready to view. Copied them down to the desktop, and double clicked on one. OK, now we have sound, but no video. Just white screen.
After some research, I found that Samsung wrote their own AVI codecs. (SMP4) You can download it here:
http://www.samsung.com/download/
Ok, but if we want to send this video to someone, (grandma), she’s not going to be able to grep google for the proper codecs, now will she?
So, we need to convert this video to something other than Samsung’s best guess at encoding. How about WMV? Most newbie users can see those without too much trouble, right?
Back to grepping google, I found a freeware video conversion utility for windows called VideoPak.
You can dowload a copy here:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/340342
This utility will allow the conversion of Samsung’s AVI format to everyday, normal WMV.
You can also specify the intended target for distribution, (broadband web video, email, streaming, etc)
I ran VideoPak on a 6mb AVI, and compressed it to 768k video for broadband, and it came out as a 1.9mb WMV.

DeepBurner is a kick-ass free CD and DVD burning utility.
get it here: www.deepburner.com