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Getting hacked is embarrassing for any website. Getting hacked when you sell security software has to be humiliating, but Trend Micro is not the only security vendor to have its Web site hacked in recent months. In January, parts of CA’s Web site were infected with a very similar type of attack which redirected their visitors to a malicious Web site hosted in China.

A Trend Micro spokesman confirmed that the company’s site had been hacked Thursday, saying that the attack took place earlier in the week. “A portion of our site — some pages were attacked,” said Mike Sweeny, a Trend Micro spokesman. “We took the pages down overnight Tuesday night — and took corrective action.”

Asus’s chief executive officer, Jerry Shen revealed details of their upcomming EeePC. he told Laptop Magazine that he prefers Intel’s Diamondville processor over Via’s Isaiah chip.

Slowly but surely, we are seeing the EeePC getting more features , including wireless broadband. However, the new EeePCs will be more expensive than the debut model but Shen believes that there will be a price drop in the future.

 

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Some Anti-virus vendors offer Online Scanners on their website. These tools often requires you to download a small plugin which enables your browser to utilize their online Anti-virus offerings.

Good thing about online AV scanners is they give you a real world benchmark on how it scans and detect viruses in the wild. This a good determining factor if you are looking for an Anti-virus solution for your home computer.

Here are the list of Online Anti-Virus Scanners I found around the web:

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With the release of their Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft is now getting ready for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. Microsoft have revealed a full features page which lists the additions to their flagship browser Internet Explorer.

Intel announced that “Atom” will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year.

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An iPhone Hacker has managed to port a functioning P2P client to the iPhone based on a popular Bitorrent client for Macs. According to Gizmodo, this is presently a command line client and the application will most likely drain your battery.

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