Alice Presentation Schedule (11/29/10 update)

9:25 CSB class
Nov 30:
Dec 2: Victoria F
Dec 7 closed : Tin W, Evan B/Hunter S, ,Thomas O/Colin B, Chih/Jarrett, Luke K
Dec 9 closed: Cole M/Jeff C, Stephanie C., Jarrett Z, Chandra/Jibri, Cassie R/Taylor C

10:40 Stetson Class
Nov 16 -
Nov 18 - Melissa L/Charlie F,
Nov 30 - Steven V, Benjamin N/Camila N, Nikki A, Daniel Q/Jonathan C, Wole O.
Dec 2 closed - John M/Michael L, Kyle M/Michael E, Chris C/Derek W, Scott C
Dec 7 closed- Kristal H, Greg C/Bradley D, Michael H/Bradley H, Jasmine D, Pun B/Varnica S, Shelley O
Dec 9 closed - Olivia W., Anthony S, Brad A/Joey U, Lucie P/Nicoleta M, Tremayne W

Slash between names indicates partners.

Procedure:
Pop your flash drive into the computer at the front of the class. Copy your Alice project into a designated folder on the desktop. Crank up Alice, call up your file.

BEFORE you start, talk about:

1. A quick synopsis on what we're going to see
2. The events you've put in place - what you press, what it does.
3. What part are you particularly proud of, and why?
4. What was particularly tricky to do, and how did you solve the problem? 

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A bit o' Computer History - in Macon!!!!!

The guy who is arguably responsible for starting the computer revolution, Dr. Henry Roberts - the guy who invented the first personal computer - died Thursday in a Macon hospital. He was a mentor to Bill Gates & Paul Allen - yeah, THE Bill Gates.

More info at http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224201222

Computer Security: new threat posted

Yet another reason to keep your antivirus updated.

If you DON'T have any antivirus on your Windows machine at all, drop EVERYTHING and surf over to the ClamAV for Windows site. Download and install it NOW.

This was posted on LinkedIn, referencing a C-Net article (link below)

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Computer Security Alert affecting those of us that regularly use any of the following: GOOGLE, YAHOO, DRUDGE REPORT, FOX NEWS.

Anyone who uses GOOGLE or YAHOO or views the DRUDGE report regularly should know that their computer is at risk. I caught a virus just from an ad posted on GOOGLE that I did not even open.

Here is a link to the full article in yesterday's CNET.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000898-245.html

"Malware that exploits holes in popular applications is being delivered by big ad delivery platforms including those run by Yahoo, Fox, and Google, according to Prague-based antivirus firm Avast.

Viruses and other malware were found to be lurking in ads last year on high-profile sites like The New York Times and conservative news aggregator Drudge Report.com, and this year on Drudge, TechCrunch and WhitePages.com. The practice has been dubbed "malvertising."

Now, researchers at Avast are pointing fingers at some large ad delivery platforms including Yahoo's Yield Manager and Fox Audience Network's Fimserve.com, which together cover more than 50 percent of online ads, and to a much smaller degree Google's DoubleClick. In addition, some of the malicious ads ended up on Yahoo and Google sites, Avast claims.

"It's not just the small players but the ad servers connected with Google and Yahoo have been infected and served up bad ads," said Lyle Frink, public relations manager for Avast.

The most compromised ad delivery platforms were Yield Manager and Fimserve, but a number of smaller ad systems, including Myspace, were also found to be delivering malware on a lesser scale, Avast Virus Labs said.

Found in ads delivered from those networks was JavaScript code that Avast dubbed "JS:Prontexi," which Avast researcher Jiri Sejtko said is a Trojan in script form that targets the Windows operating system. It looks for vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, Java, QuickTime, and Flash and launches fake antivirus warnings, Sejtko said.

Users don't need to click on anything to get infected; a computer becomes infected after the ad is loaded by the browser, Avast said.