Top 5 Optimizers technical rumors

The fourth beta of a new version of a popular web browser Mozilla Firefox 3.6, based on a new engine upgrade – Gecko 1.9.2. There has been a lot of new changes, and some of them are worth mentioning: add-ons integration order has been changed to improve Mozilla’s work with third party developed add-ons; a new service has been added – Persona, allowing users to change how browser looks with a single mouse click; full-screen video improved; browser startup boosted along JavaScript runtime speed; latest web-technologies CSS, DOM and HTML5 are now supported.

A Panda Virus that has caused widespread damage at a time when public knowledge about online security was low and caused first arrests for virus-writing in 2007 in China is now back. China’s national virus response center warned about apdated worn earlier this week, but they have only now made the connection between the new release and the old Panda Virus. The worm that is now spreading through the internet infecting html and executable files, disables users form deleteing infected files, turns off available antivirus protection and redirects webbrowser to certain website, downloading Trojan horses and other malware. It acts differently from 2006, but basics are the same, however McAfee Labs researchers say that the new variant adds a malicious component meant to make infection harder to detect. To sum it up: we advice you to keep your antivirus protection at highest levels for awhile at least, and don’t forget to update virus databases.

The Microsoft Internet Explorer security bug that was disclosed last week yet again takes our attention – this time developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise IE browser, however the code cannot be called reliable. As the developers said tehmselves – the bug is unreliable, you can’t be sure that you will be able to compromise one’s browser. As stated by Microsoft – there hasn’t yet been any attacks using this exploit in the wild. As stated by the software giant, only IE versions 6 and 7 may be effected and Microsoft has already released a Security Advisory that offers workarounds to guard against the flaw.

After it became known that automatically installed Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Plug-in for a popular webbrowser Firefox opened a major security hole, Mozilla decided to block this plug-in completely, even though Microsoft released a patch to fix the problem. It is said that Microsoft agreed with this move. At the same time Mozilla let out a Plugin Check page designed to find outdated and vulerable plug-ins, it currently picks up only a few but will be constantly updated by Mozilla. If you are using Mozilla Firefox webbrowser you might also want to grab the 3.0.15 or 3.5.5 updates, which close some holes in security and enhance privacy protection.

Since the last week when Google gave the world a glance at its new OS – Google Chrome OS there has been a lot of dispute. The main priority of the netbook operating system were supposed to be emphasizing speed and simplicity, but it surely starts to look now like project’s priorities may be weaknesses. The new OS is simple, so simple that at first glance one can say that it’s just a webbrowser with some additional tools or addons. However the cloud-based model used has the potential for extremely fast computing including boot time. After summing all the things going around at the moment my personal opinion is that it’s probably too tell if it’s a hit or a failure, as we have only seen a peace of the operating system and there sure will be a lot of changes before the official release next year.

It is now even easier to create a website using Google Sites utility, since they have added new templates for the service. You can choose from a whole galary of templates, using the premade page design and gadgets, hyperlinks for page navigation will be created automatically. The themes include wedding webpages, websites for schools, churches and inners profile websites. Also any user can add his site as a template, which will allow useres a great number of templates to choose from.

It’s been four months since the announcement of Google Chrome OS, a Web-centric operating system that is supposed to blur the line between OS and browser or so we were told, as the hasn’t been any decent information on the subject released by Google. Now it is almost clear that we won’t be seeing the official release of the Chrome OS this year, however Google will be offering the first real look at Google Chrome OS this Thursday, with technical demonstrations for the media. We might as well hear something about the release plans – we shall see where it goes.

Adobe has released beta versions of it’s AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 software for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. At some point in 2010 the 10.1 Player will also be available for smartphones and other mobile devices, and you can already update it on x86-based netbooks. The player  can take advantage of new content-protected, streaming media delivery, and of hardware decoding for H.264 video among some other things, while AIR enables the development of applications for both the browser and the desktop, using the same code, assets, tools and other aspects.

Rumors say that in the beginning of 2010 Windows is preparing a beta version of its next mobile operating system Windows Mobile 7 for the mobile makers to get their devices ready, the official release is expected on the third quarter of the year, so the manufacturers will have enough time to prepare their products for the new OS. The Microsoft official position stays the same: no dates are told until the operating system will be ready, however the downfall of sales of the smartphones using Windows Mobile and the steps Google Android is taking will most probably make Microsoft to quicken the release. The main difference of the Windows Mobile 7 from its earlier versions is multitouch technology, as Android 2.0 is said to have it and Apple products already do.

The Eset company – the makers of a popular antivirus software, released it’s statistics of top internet-threats that were discovered by Eset specialist crew using the “early locate” technology – ThreatSense.Net in October 2009. The first place for the number of world infections was given to an internet worm Conficker, the total amount of computers infected was 8,85%. The second place went to the programs that were using Autorun.inf for infecting purposes, the percentage of infected computers was 7,73%. Another massive threat was Win32/Kryptik, which includes a whole line of fake software products, even fake antivirus.