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Wednesday, 4-January-2006 02:19:50 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A security warning from Reemul: In it, Microsoft has recommended turning off the Windows Picture Viewer by un-registering the shimgvw.dll file temporally until a fix is released. Basically there is a vulnerability in Windows Meta Files .WMF files (16 bit image file) that can allow exploit code execution. That’s a problem because Windows Picture & Fax viewer will automatically open graphics file (and hence execute the infected code), without the user having to click on the file (either from email or website). Infected files don’t necessarily have to have the .WMF extension, but can be renamed to other graphic file types & Windows will still auto-open them. One site said there were 73 variants detected already. Update your Antispyware & Antivirus programs folks!
ArsTechnica take a look back at 2005, the year in gaming. Sit down, pour yourself a cup of Hot Coffee, and read about the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2005, along with the game of the year.
LegionHW looked at overclocking the Celeron D 336 CPU. Particularly when overclocked the Celeron was very difficult to distinguish from the Pentium 4 without starting up a very processor intense program.
Punk spotted some new Shuttle boxes over on Sudhian. As shown below, the design for the P2 reaches back to the G5 chassis for inspiration, resulting in a clean faceplate with similarly stealthed drives.
Hexus checked out the Intel "Paxville" Xeon DP 2.8GHz CPU. Less than 4GiB/sec to share between the better-performing four cores is pretty measly, with each Opteron core enjoying roughly twice that with interleaved accesses to a shared MC on 2-way dual-core Opteron.
T-Break checked out a few 2GB memory kits from Corsair, OCZ and TwinMOS. Corsair seems to offer the tightest timings out of the box with an SPD value of 2.0-3-2-6 while both the OCZ and TwinMOS stand at 2.5-3-3-8. The speed at which these modules are tested by their respective manufacturers is 438MHz for Corsair, 500MHz for OCZ and 400MHz for TwinMOS.
French site Overclex have an interesting watercooled case (translated link). Firstly, which types with the eye, it is the green serpentine which traverses the front face. It acts of Glycol + of antifreeze. Nice pics tho.
Techspot have a guide to tweaking WinXP's memory subsystem. For the most part this guide will be targeting the Hard Drive, CPU, and RAM, optimally configuring these along the way, and clearing up many of the placebos surrounding memory management in XP.
ATI had a presentation in Israel recently, and HWZone covered it, including an interview. In the article you can find information about ATi's plans in the graphic cards, chipsets and home entertainment markets, and its relations with Microsoft in the development of the XBOX 360.
Tech-Hounds continue their deeper with the GeForce 7 series article. This is a short article looking at transparency antialiasing on the GeForce 7 series cards using 2xQ.
ARP have a short interview with Seagate about their acquisition of Maxtor. It's possible some of the branded solutions/retail products may maintain some Maxtor branding, but it's too early to tell. They're very strong in this space. We will retain the Seagate brand for all other products.
Tech Report have their 2005 Awards posted. Today we'll be handing out our Best Hardware of 2005 awards to the most compelling enthusiast-oriented products of the year.
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