Top 5 Optimizers technical rumors

There have been a lot of speculations about the battery lifetime being reduced by Windows 7 operating system. However Microsoft position on this topic is: Battery problems on Windows 7 machines are not caused by the operating system. Tests have shown that in every case of this occurrence the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement, but it has not been caused by the operating system – Windows 7 simply accurately detected a failing battery, meaning that the customers who have upgraded their PCs to Windows 7 just weren’t aware that they needed a battery replacement until the message from the operating system popped up (if the battery performs at less then 40% of it’s designed capacity the recommendation to consider battery replacement appears).

Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software.  Police in Hubei province arrested three people suspected of running the hacker site known as the Black Hawk Safety Net that disseminated Web site hacking techniques and Trojan software, the China Daily newspaper said. Trojans, which can allow outside access to a computer when implanted, are used by hackers to illegally control computers. This recent anti-hacker activity of  Chiniese government however seems a bit suspicious as it only started after China has been accused of cyber attacks on a number of companies, including Google.

The assumption that an Internet user can be recognized by his IP address and his Cookie files  only was proven to be incorrect. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Organization has launched their own online-test Panopticlick(http://panopticlick.eff.org/) which is designed to demonstrate how easy it is to recognize the needed machine profile among hundreds of others on the Net. It all comes down to “digital hand-prints” – the data which is left over on the visited resource by the users computer, especially his Internet browser. When taken together, the information about users plugins, time zone, display settings, etc can form a unique profile which will lead back to the original user, even if his cookies were erased and the IP address changed. It is quite easy to see the possible practical applications of this, EFF states that advertisement companies have been using this methods of profiling for a long time now.