Corazon Aquino, Former Philippine President dies at 76

It's a sad day in Philippine history...

Our Former President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009). She was the first female president of the Philippines; the icon of democracy and was Asia's first female president. Has past away at the ages of 76 on saturday this morning after being diagnosed with an colon cancer. Finally she's already with our creator. After battling colon cancer for more than a year.

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
-Cory-

May she rest in peace.

Her family made an official statement announcing the death of their mother:

"Our mother peacefully passed away at 3:18 a.m., August 1, 2009, of cardio-respiratory arrest.

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R.i.P. President Cory Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009)

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Michael Jackson and the Number7

Soo...What's with it???? and what's behind on it.
We all know of those so called superstitious beliefs we have , like don’t walk under a ladder, don’t cross a black cat are just example of it. And now are you superstitious? But there are still people who are very superstitious that it could really affect in their lives.
According to TMZ, the number 7 has cropped up a lot of times in the King of Pop’s life.

Get ready to have your mind blown. Ready? Here we go ...

Michael Jackson signed his will on 7/7/02.
Michael Jackson's memorial was on 7/7/09 ... exactly 7 years after the will was signed.
Michael Jackson's two biggest hits -- "Black & White" and "Billie Jean" -- were each #1 for 7 weeks.
Michael Jackson's three biggest albums -- "Thriller," "Bad" and "Dangerous" -- each produced 7 top 40 hits.
Michael Jackson was the 7th of 9 children.
Michael Jackson was born in 1958 ... 19 + 58 = 77
Michael Jackson died on the 25th ... 2 + 5 = 7
Michael Jackson has 7 letters in his first and last name.


If you're looking for lottery numbers tonight, we recommend something with the number 7 in it.

Source: TMZ

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Hacker's falsely 'tweet' Britney Spears death

Britney Spears has fallen victim to Internet hackers again. Their are pranksters who broke into her Twitter.com account on Saturday and told fans the star had died.

But the message is quickly removed as the representatives of Spears immediately contacted the social networking site's executives, who shut down their network immediately and discover that their system was hacked. It was the second time around that her twitter account was hacked. For all the fans of their Britney Spears is not dead only her twitter account was hacked by pranksters.

read more>> [at] http://www.teenmusic.com/d/207870/1020/britney-spears-is-alive.html

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Farewell Michael Jackson.

Sad news of the day is that Pop Star Michel Jackson has died at the age of 50 on Thursday after suffering a heart attack at his Holmby Hills home and he has died just after 12:00 pm local time at UCLA Medical Center.

hmmm.. lets have some history about him..

Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, USA. Son of Joseph Walter "Joe and Katherine Esther, was an amazing dancer American recording artist, entertainer and businessman.The seventh child of Jackson family. He started to work at age of 11 year.he was legend of Pop music. He produced many albums during his life.

After his heart attack Paramedics were called to his home at that time but when they arrived he had no pulse. Paramedics were tried to revive him but their tries failed and he was declared dead. Numerous reliable news sources are reporting confirmed news that Michael Jackson has passed away. He was an icon of Pop songs and his songs were featured on a number of different movie soundtracks over the years. Michael is survived by three children as Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince "Blanket" Michael Jackson II.

I've been one of his fan when I was kid..until now..you will always be in our heart.

GoodBye Idol.

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Upcomming movies 2009

41 Mga Pelikula ngayon 2009 na dapat abangan.. just wanna share this with you guys. 1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Fantasy 2009 2. Terminator IV Sci-Fi 2009 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Action/Adventure 2009 4. Watchmen Action/Adventure 2009 5. Fast & Furious Action/Adventure 2009 6. Dragonball Action/Adventure 2009 7. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Action/Adventure 2009 8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine Action/Adventure 2009 9. Star Trek (working title) Sci-Fi 2009 10. G. I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Action/Adventure 11. Monsters vs. Aliens Animation 2009 12. Friday the 13th (remake working title) Horror 2009 13. Confessions of a Shopaholic (working title) Comedy 2009 14. Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian (working title) Comedy 2009 15. Where the Wild Things Are Action/Adventure 2009 16. The Six Million Dollar Man Front Door 2009 17. Inkheart Fantasy 2009 18. Six Bullets from Now (working title) Action/Adventure 2009 19. Avatar Sci-Fi 2009 20. The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (working title) Fantasy 2009 21. The Lovely Bones (working title) Drama 2009 22. The International (working title) Action/Adventure 2009 23. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Animation 2009 24. Hotel for Dogs Family 2009 25. The Proposal (working title) Comedy 2009 26. The Wolfman (working title) Horror 2009 27. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Comedy 2009 28. The Pink Panther 2 (working title) Comedy 2009 29. Trial & Retribution XIV Front Door 2009 30. Tenderness (working title) Suspense/Thriller 2009 31. Ripley's Believe It Or Not Front Door 2009 32. 2012 (working title) Action/Adventure 2009 33. Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt Comedy 2009 34. Land of the Lost Fantasy 2009 35. Old Dogs (working title) Comedy 2009 36. Up Animation 2009 37. G-Force (working title) Action/Adventure 2009 38. Red Cliff Action/Adventure 2008 39. Case 39 Horror 2009 40. Planet 51 Animation 2009 41. Rapunzel Unbraided Animation

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Microsoft's new system easier for browser switch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is developing a feature in its new operating system that allows users to turn off Internet Explorer and other key Microsoft programs.

The new feature is a major step for the world's largest software company, which has been accused by competitors and regulators of forcing consumers to run its own software, squeezing rivals' offerings out of the marketplace.


"In addition to the features that were already available to turn on or off in Windows Vista, we've added the following features to the list in Windows 7," said a Microsoft blog published on Friday, listing Internet Explorer 8, Windows Media Player and a host of other Microsoft programs.

The publicly available blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/06/beta-to-rc-changes-

turning-windows-features-on-or-off.aspx) was written by Jack May o, a manager in the team developing Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system, which will replace the unpopular Vista early next year.

The new design will make it easier for users to remove any traces of Internet Explorer from their desktop, although the software will remain installed on the computer, and allow them to run other browsers more smoothly.

Last month Google Inc, which recently launched its own Chrome browser, joined the Mozilla foundation, producer of the Firefox Web browser, and Norway's Opera, in protesting Microsoft's dominance in the browser market.

In January, European regulators brought formal charges against Microsoft for abusing its dominant market position by bundling its Internet Explorer Web browser with its Windows operating system, which is used in 95 percent of the world's personal computers.
In the past decade, Microsoft has fallen afoul of both U.S. and European antitrust regulators for bundling key programs with its operating system.

source:http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090307/wr_nm/us_microsoft

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The Myth Of Refreshing The Desktop

Do you refresh your desktop?". Ask this to any Windows user and 99% of them will reply with a "yes". Of course, there are various needs for refreshing the desktop but the majority of people who does it doesn't even know why he is doing it. Refreshing the desktop is perhaps the biggest computer myth among all Windows users.


Every single person I have met does this or at least used to do it. It's not known who first discovered this remarkably useless trick and what he achieved from it, but it just spread. Most new users learn this trick from other new users without caring to know what it does. Some do it devotedly just because others do it, while some others have various weird explanations for it. A few of them assumes that it refreshes the RAM, while some others believe that doing it will somehow keep their PCs running smooth and easy. I have seen some users obsessed with refreshing the desktop, doing it every 30 seconds or so. They have even learnt the keyboard shortcut - F5 (just to mention, these are the people who never use keyboard shortcuts). They would press the key and wouldn't release it for a long time, sending the desktop into a frenzy of refreshes.

What does a desktop refresh actually do? Refreshing the desktop simply redraws the icons on the desktop. That's it! It doesn't refreshes the RAM. It doesn't clean your PC. It doesn't refreshes your computer the way it does to you when you wake up from a nap. Refreshing the desktop has absolutely no effect on the working or performance of the computer. So why is the tool there? As I said, refresh is used to re-display or redraw the icons on the desktop. Sometimes when you bring some changes to the desktop icons, the change doesn't get reflected instantly. In such cases, refreshing the desktop becomes necessary to bring the change to effect. Say, you have the desktop icons set to arrange themselves alphabetically on your desktop. When you add a new item to the desktop, this item wouldn't get arranged alphabetically, instead it would appear at the bottom of icon list on the desktop, irrespective of it's name. Now if you refresh the desktop, all the icons would be once more arranged alphabetically and the newly added item would go to it's appropriate position. This is what refresh is for. It is to re-display the desktop. Refresh has the same function when done in explorer. Also Refresh is basically the command used to refresh/reload the video buffer(VGA memory). Sometimes the changes made in the VGA memory are not reflected to the screen properly...Refresh just corrects the prob...

So, if you are in the habit of refreshing the desktop, stop it. You are just wasting your time and effort. And the next time you see a person doing it, don't forget to explain to him the futility of this action

Also, during the times of windows 3.1 - win 95 it was normal for PCs to hang, crash n be restarted every now n then ! It looks like even knowledgeable ppl used the desktop refresh just to get an assurence that the OS is working n not freezed from the resulting flicker of icons.

Today PCs are very stable n crash only once in a blue moon but the habit still continues, and I think for same reason , even I do it sometimes

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The most worst computer viruses of all time

If you haven't experienced a computer virus yet, just wait -- you probably will.

Fortunately, you missed the real heyday of computer viruses when anti-virus software wasn't very widely used, and virus attacks caused millions of dollars in damages overnight. Today's viruses can still be nightmarish, but for the average user, cleanup is considerably easier than it was just a few years ago, when the only solution in many cases was reformatting your hard drive and starting from scratch (and even that didn't do the trick sometimes).

So join me on a trip down memory lane as we revisit some of the worst viruses of all time and count our blessings that our computers are still up and running despite it all. (Though, please note, "worst" is a matter of considerable debate in the security industry, as the number of infected machines and amount of financial loss is always estimated. If you think another virus was worse than these, please post it in the comments to remind us!)

The worst viruses of all time


Brain, 1986
It all started here: Brain was the first "real" virus ever discovered, back in 1986. Brain didn't really hurt your PC, but it launched the malware industry with a bang and gave bad ideas to over 100,000 virus creators for the next 2 decades.

Michelangelo, 1991
The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly. After spreading quietly for months, the virus "activated" on March 6, and promptly started destroying data on tens of thousands of computers.

Melissa, 1999
Technically a worm, Melissa (named after a stripper) collapsed entire email systems by causing computers to send mountains of messages to each other. The author of the virus was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

ILOVEYOU, 2000
This was notable for being one of the first viruses to trick users into opening a file, which in this case claimed to be a love letter sent to the recipient. In reality, the file was a VBS script that sent mountains of junk mail and deleted thousands of files. The results were terribly devastating- one estimate holds that 10 percent of all computers were affected, to a cost of $5.5 billion. It remains perhaps the worst worm of all time.

Code Red, 2001
An early "blended threat" attack, Code Red targeted Web servers instead of user machines, defacing websites and later launching denial-of-service attacks on a host of IP addresses, including those of the White House.

Nimda, 2001
Built on Code Red's attack system of finding multiple avenues into machines (email, websites, network connections, and others), Nimda infected both Web servers and user machines. It found paths into computers so effectively that, 22 minutes after it was released, it became the Internet's most widespread virus at the time.

Klez, 2001
An email virus, Klez pioneered spoofing the "From" field in email messages it sent, making it impossible to tell if Bill Gates did or did not really send you that information about getting free money.

Slammer, 2003
Another fast spreader, this worm infected about 75,000 systems in just 10 minutes, slowing the Internet to a crawl (much like Code Red) and shutting down thousands of websites.

MyDoom, 2004
Notable as the fastest-spreading email virus of all time, MyDoom infected computers so they would, in turn, send even more junk mail. In a strange twist, MyDoom was also used to attack the website of SCO Group, a very unpopular company that was suing other companies over its code being used in Linux distributions.

Storm, 2007
The worst recent virus, Storm spread via email spam with a fake attachment and ultimately infected up to 10 million computers, causing them to join its zombie botnet.

Thanks to Symantec for helping to compile this list.

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Top 20 Antivirus rankings. Tested using 174,770 virus sample

What is the the best Antivirus program ?

The latest test from virus.gr includes 52 different antivirus applications. They were rigorously tested using 174,770 virus samples, and the settings of each application were tweaked to ensure that they all caught maximum number of viruses (despite increasing the possibility that the the software would be more likely to return a false positive).

This is the list of the top 20 antivirus applications


1. Kaspersky version 7.0.0.43 beta - 99.23%
2. Kaspersky version 6.0.2.614 - 99.13%
3. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.308 - 99.13%
4. ZoneAlarm with KAV Antivirus version 7.0.337.000 - 99.13%
5. F-Secure 2007 version 7.01.128 - 98.56%
6. BitDefender Professional version 10 - 97.70%
7. BullGuard version 7.0.0.23 - 96.59%
8. Ashampoo version 1.30 - 95.80%
9. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 94.43%
10. Nod32 version 2.70.32 - 94.00%
11. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 93.27%
12. Avast Professional version 4.7.986 - 92.82%
13. AVG Anti-Malware version 7.5.465 - 92.14%
14. F-Prot version 6.0.6.4 - 91.35%
15. McAfee Enterprise version 8.5.0i+AntiSpyware module - 90.65%
16. Panda 2007 version 2.01.00 - 90.06%
17. Norman version 5.90.37 - 88.47%
18. ArcaVir 2007 - 88.24%
19. McAfee version 11.0.213 - 86.13%
20. Norton Professional 2007 - 86.08%

Followed by:
21. Rising AV version 19.19.42 - 85.46%
22. Dr. Web version 4.33.2 - 85.09%
23. PC-Cillin 2007 version 15.00.1450 - 84.96%
24. Iolo version 1.1.8 - 83.35%
25. Virus Chaser version 5.0a - 79.51%
26. VBA32 version 3.11.4 - 77.66%
27. Sophos Sweep version 6.5.1 - 69.79%
28. ViRobot Expert version 5.0 - 69.53%
29. Antiy Ghostbusters version 5.2.1 - 65.95%
30. Zondex Guard version 5.4.2 - 63.79%
31. Vexira 2006 version 5.002.62 - 60.07%
32. V3 Internet Security version 2007.04.21.00 - 55.09%
33. Comodo version 2.0.12.47 beta - 53.94%
34. Comodo version 1.1.0.3 - 53.39%
35. A-Squared Anti-Malware version 2.1 - 52.69%
36. Ikarus version 5.19 - 50.56%
37. Digital Patrol version 5.00.37 - 49.80%
38. ClamWin version 0.90.1 - 47.95%
39. Quick Heal version 9.00 - 38.64%
40. Solo version 5.1 build 5.7.3 - 34.52%
41. Protector Plus version 8.0.A02 - 33.13%
42. PcClear version 1.0.4.3 - 27.14%
43. AntiTrojan Shield version 2.1.0.14 - 20.25%
44. PC Door Guard version 4.2.0.35- 19.95%
45. Trojan Hunter version 4.6.930 - 19.20%
46. VirIT version 6.1.75 - 18.78%
47. E-Trust PestPatrol version 8.0.0.6 - 11.80%
48. Trojan Remover version 6.6.0 - 10.44%
49. The Cleaner version 4.2.4319 - 7.26%
50. True Sword version 4.2 - 2.20%
51. Hacker Eliminator version 1.2 - 1.43%
52. Abacre version 1.4 - 0.00%


*The test was made on 23 April-10 May 2008, using Windows XP Professional SP2 on a P4 3000 Mhz, 1024MB DDRAM.

* All programs tested had the latest versions, upgrades and updates and they were tested using their full scanning capabilities e.g. heuristics, full scan etc.

*The default settings of each program were not used, in order for each program to achieve its maximum detection rate. Because of this, there is a possibility for the tested programs to detect a few false positives.

*All programs were updated on 22 April 2008, between 10.00AM and 13.00PM GMT.

*The 174770 virus samples were chosen using VS2000 according to Kaspersky, F-Prot, Nod32, Dr.Web, BitDefender and McAfee antivirus programs. Each virus sample was unique by virus name, meaning that AT LEAST 1 antivirus program detected it as a new virus.

*ALL virus samples were unpacked and the only samples that were kept were the ones that were packed using external-dos-packers (that means not winzip, winrar, winace etc).

*The virus samples had the correct file extension using a special program (Renexts) and were unique, according to checksum32 filesize.

*Most "fake" virus samples were removed, as well as "garbage" files.

*The programs MKS_VIR , PER and IPArmor were not tested because there was no english demo version available.

*The programs Anti-Hacker Expert , Command , Extendia AVK , GDATA AVK , BOClean , UNA , VET and Freedom were not tested because there was no demo version available.

*Thorough mode was not used in VBA32 due to extremely slow scan process.

*A-Squared Anti-Malware and eTrust PestPatrol are anti-trojan/anti-spyware programs, not antivirus programs

*F-Prot was tested using its command line scanner (options /adware /applications /report /streams /maxdepth=4 /heurlevel=4) because its GUI kept crashing.

*Windows Live OneCare, BKAV, PC Tools kept crashing while scanning the samples.

*TheShield uses the exact same engine as VirobotExpert.

*Avira uses the exact same engine as AntiVir.

*Fire uses the exact same engine as Solo.

*MKS_VIR uses the exact same engine as ArcaVir.

*VirusBuster uses the exact same engine as Vexira.

*BullGuard uses the exact same engine as BitDefender free edition.

*Avast Professional uses the exact same engine as Avast free edition.

*AVG Anti-Malware uses the exact same engine as AVG Antivirus free edition plus the Ewido scan engine, so it has better detection than AVG Antivirus free edition.

*A-squared Anti-Malware Professional uses the exact same engine as A-squared free edition.

* InVircible did not include a "typical" scanner-function and could not be tested.

*V-Catch checks only mail accounts and could not be tested.

*DOS-Based scanners were not tested.

*The following file types were used: SH, ELF, COM, EXE, PL, BAT, PRC, DOC, XLS, BIN, MDB, IMG, PPT, VBS, MSG, VBA, OLE, HTM, INI, SMM, TD0, REG, CLASS, HTA, JS, VI_, URL, PHP, WMF, HLP, XML, SCR, PIF, SHS, WBT, CSC, MAC, DAT, CLS, STI, INF, HQX, XMI, SIT.

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