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mignuna's Articles In Personal Computing
August 26, 2004 by mignuna
Great. Virus writers have developed a "Peeping Tom" worm uses your own webcam to spy on you. Oh, super news, that !. The Rbot-GR worm spreads via network shares, exploiting Microsoft security vulnerabilities and installing a backdoor Trojan as it travels. Once infected, remote access can be gained to the PC's hard drive, as well as remote activation of any connected webcam or microphone. Apparently hackers are becoming more interested in spying on the people they manage to infect wi...
January 12, 2004 by mignuna
... yourself. i like this website "future me" (link below) it lets you compose email and post-date its' delivery for anytime up until 2028. of course its' glaring flaw is the short lives of most email addresses, but it's still fun
August 18, 2004 by mignuna
*by nick farrell at the enquirer.com microsoft has revealed how many fixes and updates are under the bonnet of its windows xp service pack 2. according to its site, more than 150 fixes and updates are included in the upgrade. if you want a detailed look, the page is here: Link most of the fixes and updates are to networking aspects of xp with 138 focused on the base operating system. nearly a hundred are listed as security fixes. sp2 corrects problems in internet explorer, t...
December 9, 2004 by mignuna
  According to ABC Science Online Australia, the heat generated by a laptop warming the scrotum may affect sperm production, potentially creating a generation of men with fertility problems. Judy Skatssoon from ABC says that a study by U.S. researchers in the journal ‘Human Reproduction’ found that laptops increased the temperature of the scrotum by almost 3°C.   According to Skatssoon, Professor Yefim Sheynkin of the State University of New York says that...