The News Review:
- Mac trojan horse discovered in pirated Photoshop
- Circuit City: A Brief History In Time
- DivX 7: H.264 w00tage and Blu-ray p0wnage
Mac trojan horse discovered in pirated Photoshop
Macworld CA
It affects some copies of Adobe Photoshop that are being distributed through pirate software sites. According to Intego ?The actual Photoshop installer is clean but the Trojan horse is found in a crack application that serializes the program. DivX according to Intego. It then listens on a random TCP port and attemps to make repeated connections to two IP addresses. Intego concludes that the creator of the malware intends to be alerted through this method and may have the ability to connect to affected Macs and perform various actions remotely. ?The Trojan horse may also download additional components to an infected Mac? reads Intego?s security alert.
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Circuit City: A Brief History In Time
Twice NY
— nce upon a time before the distractions of CarMax and Divx before it de-commissioned its sales force before it dropped appliances before Best Buy went corporate before it lost its way — Circuit City was the CE specialty chain supreme. But bad lease deals outdated locations and aging infrastructure eventually took their toll. — nce upon a time before the distractions of CarMax and Divx before it de-commissioned its sales force before it dropped appliances before Best Buy went corporate before it lost its way — Circuit City was the CE specialty chain supreme. But bad lease deals outdated locations and aging infrastructure eventually took their toll.
DivX 7: H.264 w00tage and Blu-ray p0wnage
CNET News CA
The much-used video codec started as a hack of Microsoft’s proprietary MPEG-4 codec and was born out of frustration with Microsoft’s video-playback lameness. DivX quickly became an important ingredient of Internet video but in an HD era something with a little more power is needed.