Firefox users have targeted by a new scam that tries to load a user's PC with fake antivirus software using a passably convincing version of the Windows Update page.

Fake antivirus scam are legion,, and ones using bogus update pages of one sort of another are also an established trick. The oddity of the latest incarnation of the attack, discovered by Sophos, is that it triggers only when encountering Windows users of Firefox pushed to it through a page redirect.

Artwork: Chip TaylorThe first big giveaway? Windows Update can only be started as a background activity in Windows or through Internet Explorer.

The pege itself is a copy of Windows Update Page offering an "urgent" 2.8MB download which will turn out to start a useless security scan plugging fake antivirus software. The technique is clever. Users who agree to the update without being entirely sure that it is genuine will be more easily convinced that a PC has been infected with the non-existent malware later detected by the bogus program.

"Users need to be more vigilant than ever before as bogus security alerts pop-up in their browsers," said Graham Cluley of Sophos. "Fake anti-virus attacks are big business for cybercriminals and they are investing time and effort into making them as convincing as possible."

"Malicious hackers are using smart social engineering tricks more and more often, and the risk is that users will be scared by a phoney warning into handing over money to fix problems that never existed in the first place," he said.

Attacks targetting Mozilla Firefox users seem to be a mini-fashion right now. Last week, the company reported a separate scam that throws up bogus security warnings that ape the browser's security alerts as yet another method of pushing the same useless scareware products.

Neither are entirely convincing to an experienced user but they probably don't need to be to satisfy a business model that delivers decent rewards simply for tricking a handful people into installing a fake antivirus system

As N900 is a pack in a strong hardware in a small frame. The cell phone is generation old but powerhouse with 600Mhz ARM Cortex A8 inside and Operating system is Linux based Maemo, porting another Linux based OS on the N900 is easy rather on a symbian based handset.

Check out the video in which guy has ported Android Froyo which is the latest version running on  N900.

According to Steven Sinofsky president of Windows division at Microsoft while speaking at D9 conference at Computex 2011 in Taipei:

In fact, the umbra is never black. A little light must reach the Moon from the parts of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, that are not hidden by the Earth. But more sunlight is refracted and scattered around the edge of the Earth by our planet's atmosphere. Just as sunsets and sunrises appear orange or red, so this light is predominantly red.

The umbra is not illuminated evenly, though, since less of this indirect light penetrates to its core and the amount reaching different zones of the umbra is affected by varying atmospheric conditions. In particular, dust thrown up by major volcanic eruptions can render the atmosphere less transparent and the eclipsed Moon so dark that it practically disappears.

Our image shows the previous total lunar eclipse as viewed from Florida last December. On that occasion, the Moon traversed the northern part of the umbra and its southern regions, which just missed the shadow's core, are relatively dark. This week, the Moon passes about a half Moon's-breadth farther southwards with respect to the shadow, so it will be interesting to discover just how dark and colourful it appears.

Wednesday's eclipse begins when the Moon's eastern limb begins to enter the penumbra of the Earth's shadow at 18:25 BST. While within the penumbra, some direct sunlight falls on the Moon but little darkening of the disc will be noticed until a few minutes before the Moon begins to enter the umbra at 19:23. Totality, with the Moon entirely within the umbra, lasts from 20:22 until 22:03 with mid eclipse at 21:13. The Moon's W limb has withdrawn from the umbra by 23:02 and finally exits the penumbra at 00:01.

For Britain, other than the far NW, the Moon rises in the SE during the latter half of totality. Observers in SE England may just glimpse the end of totality, but most of us may see nothing until it begins to emerge from the umbra. From London and Manchester, for example, the Moon stands less than 5° and 3° high respectively at 22:03 BST, with the Sun only a little way below the NW horizon and the sky brightly twilit. The Moon should be more obvious another 5° higher in a darker sky by 23:02.

Microsoft has lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a long running legal battle against i4i, the small Canadian company that sued them claiming willful infringement of its patents in Word 2003 and 2007. Specifically, the dispute centered on some custom XML tagging features used by the software for encoding and displaying information, which had already cost the Redmond giant a sales injunction on Office last year and now almost $300 million in fines.

The original verdict in 2009 required Microsoft to remove the infringing XML feature from Word and pay a $200 million fine. Soon after losing the initial case Microsoft filed an appeal asking the court to re-think its decision. Nevertheless, a panel of judges upheld the initial ruling in December 2010, and having failed to modify its software in time, one month later Microsoft was forced to remove all versions of Office from its online store.

Following its failed appeal the company was slapped with some extra fines, including a $40 million fine for "willful" infringement, taking the damages up to $290 million. Microsoft promptly removed the incumbent feature from Word in order to keep selling its software and decided to challenge the verdict one more time at the Supreme Court level.

In its defense Microsoft was hoping to challenge patent law itself and introduce a lower standard for challenging patent lawsuits -- legal jargon courtesy of ComputerWorld: "Under current practice, an accused infringer must show 'clear and convincing evidence' that the patent in dispute is invalid. But Microsoft had argued that the burden of proof bar should instead be lowered to 'a preponderance of the evidence.'" Companies including Apple, Google, EMC, Cisco Systems and the Electronic Frontier Foundation had all filed documents with the court in support of Microsoft's argument.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Microsoft, though, suggesting that companies such as Microsoft will have to take the issue to Congress if they want to change patent law. The decision is a setback for big tech companies who feel they are often targeted by so-called patent trolls. On the other hand, by requiring extensive proof it also protects small patent holders against big corporations with large legal teams whenever their patents are challenged.

Facebook is a place where many users set and display their relationship statuses. According to an infographic from Online Dating University every six out of ten (60 percent) users on Facebook show their relationship statuses at all, and surprisingly among them Jordan have the highest percentage of users displaying their status as single.

It really hurts when two lovers break their long relationship with each other, but it is indeed more painful when that relationship appear to end in front of a large audience.

Previously we showed you, women uploading more profile pictures than men – infographic, also that world without Facebook – infographic, and today we are going to demonstrate the infographic of - The Facebook Effect On Relationships:

How does Facebook affects your relationship? Has Facebook played any positive role in building your relationship or not? Please share your views about the topic in the comment box.

Motorola Droid X is released to compete well with the HTC Evo 4G and iPhone 4 Smartphone. The features and specs of it are quite interesting however somewhat less attractive when compared with the features of latest smartphone. It is designed with a 4.3″ inch touch-screen that boosts up the resolution of 854 X 480 pixels. This smartphone comes with a stylish and comfy keyboard which makes it feasible for the users to type your messages in a relaxing manner. It provides enough memory option in the form of 512MB RAM and 8GB Flash ROM.

Droid X provides good performance just because of its 1 GHz TI-OMAP 3630 processor. It is running on Android 2.1 Éclair operating system at the time when we have Gingerbread power handsets such as Google Nexus S, HTC Desire S, and HTC Wildfire S etc. An 8 MP snapper is there to allow the user to capture video and still images nevertheless the flash light of its camera is a little bit weaker than that of iPhone 4G Smartphone. The brightness of still pictures is really great in comparison with other smartphones.

Excellent connectivity is assured through various options such as Bluetooth, USB tethering mode and wireless functions with WPA2-protected, 802.11g Wi-Fi hotspot. Perfect voice and sound quality is provided by this handset to the users.

We don’t know if Facebook will implement this feature in coming days or not but this is what the company told TNW about its new testing feature:

‘Happening Now’ was first discovered by Amit Misra, a writer for Dazeinfo. The feature seems similar to Twitter Friend Feed though it doesn’t include status updates but it does display comments and likes from friends.

See below, the image of Amit Misra’s profile showing this new feature situated at right hand side of the News Feed on Facebook:

So, did you like the idea of Facebook testing this new feature pronounced as Happening Now? Does this idea grab your attention? Please share your views in the comment box below.

Microsoft today showed off the next version of its Windows Phone 7 software, code-named Mango, that includes 500 new features, including smoother integration with social-networking programs, built-in voice-to-text and text-to-voice support for hands-free use, and the ability to run one application while another is working in the background.
"We set out to make the smartphone smarter and easier," Andy Lees, president of the Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, said at the end of a news conference in New York City this morning.
The software giant said Mango will be available this fall.
The challenge for Microsoft will be living up to the hype created prior to the announcement. Holding an event in New York and encouraging media attendance comes with expectations. And it stumbled early, with the video feed of the press conference bogging down and not loading for many Web watchers, greeting them instead with a screen with a bar slowly loading the video feed.
The company announced plenty of new features, including a version of Internet Explorer 9 for the phone. It introduced a program called Local Scout that offers hyper-local search results, based on a user's location, and recommends nearby restaurants, shopping, and activities. And it's created a new feature called Quick Cards, which provides a brief summary of relevant information and related apps when users search for a product, movie, or event.
Some of the other new features include:
• Threads: Gives users the ability to switch between text, Facebook chat, and Windows Live Messenger within one conversation.
• Groups: Lets users compile contacts in one place so they can see the latest status updates from the start screen and quickly text, e-mail, or instant-message the whole group.
• Linked inbox: Puts multiple e-mail accounts in one linked inbox.
• App Connect: Deepens the integration between apps and search so that applications surface when they are relevant to a user's Web search query.
Windows Phone has had a rough start. Launched in 2010, the mobile-phone software has yet to make any sort of dent in the leads held by Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Just last week, market research firm Gartner found that of the 100 million smartphones sold worldwide in the first quarter, only 1.6 million of them ran Windows Phone 7. Android, which had just 9.6 percent of the market a year earlier, soared to 36 percent of the market, while Apple held a 16.8 percent share.

Let's See can this mango update deal with Ice Cream.