Thursday, May 20, 2010

Google Announces Chrome Web Store

At the conference Google I / O, Sundar Pichai, Google Chrome Product Manager, announces the launch of Chrome Web Store, a directory intended to facilitate the discovery of new Internet services. Chrome Web Store will appear as a new page in the default browser Google Chrome. The Mountain View company should take the opportunity to promote some hosted services but also games.

Directly from this new gallery, it will be possible to preview an application but also to buy via the electronic payment system Google Checkout. Applications will be classified as categories (entertainment, communication, productivity ...). We also meet again the themes and extensions for Chrome.

"Vendors can promote their products to 70 million users," says Pichai adding that Chrome Web Store will be available on all versions of the browser (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux OS and Chrome).

Download Fastest Chrome 2.2.4

Google Chrome is fast in every sense of the term, both in its execution speed its growth in development and progression. Today, Clubic invites you to discover one of the most popular extensions of the Google browser will give you wings!

FastestChrome you will maximize your browsing with Google Chrome and freeing up valuable time. To get there, it will not affect the settings of the browser technology, but will offer few features and effective practices. Inspired by the excellent Autopage Chrome , it will load automatically open pages of results following a search engine, without requiring you to click the Next button. You simply use your mouse wheel to scroll through all the results. Finally, the process is fun and runs without any delays.

If overshadows Autopage on speed, we can not say as much in terms of compatibility. Indeed, it will only work with Google, Google Image, Google Video, Google News and Bing . For the rest, we find a dictionary function module coupled to a quick search of 11 engines. Highlighting a word in your browser, it will show the definition of the term derived from Wikipedia and logos of Google, Delicious, Twitter , OneRiot, Bing, Youtube, Wiktionary, Baidu , and Yandex Surf Cayon. You simply click on one of them to launch a targeted search. Although interesting, the service is available only in English.

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A trojan pretends to be a beta of Office 2010

In an alert dated yesterday, BitDefender warns users against a trojan that pretends to access the beta of Office 2010.

This is provided in an email, entitled "See Office 2010 Beta in Action" and the seductive layout. "Generously evaluated by nick testers 5 stars (5 course), it is too tempting not to be tested." Says the editor of Romania. The email comes with an attachment that promises quick access to the beta in question. This is obviously a fake.

The trojan is identified by BitDefender as the Trojan.Downloader.Delf.RUJ, and creates a hole in Windows that causes the installation of adware. "Once installed, the trojan creates a copy of itself and modifies the registry so that each copy is executed at Windows startup. It then attempts to connect to a specific IP address to download various malicious files. Trojan.Downloader.Delf.RUJ also presents a very serious threat to personal data and banking. "Says the editor.

Windows 7 64-bit security flaw in the display drive

The 64-bit edition of Windows 7, its counterpart for servers, Windows Server 2008 R2, Itanium and declination of the latter are affected by a security hole located at the component cdd.dll (Canonical Display Driver).

Microsft says it could allow an attacker to trigger the execution of remote code on a target machine. The risk is however, more moderate, due to the random generation of memory addresses used by this component.

Until the release of a patch, users are invited, if they wish to protect themselves from possible exploitation of this vulnerability, disable Aero component that supports Windows Vista since the GUI system from Microsoft.

Used at the Windows desktop, as well as some third party applications, allows the driver to cdd.dll memory operate together data from interfaces DirectX and GDI (Windows graphics device interface, used before the arrival of DirectX).