In order to satisfy both our host and ourselves that Neowin stays the tech site it started out to be just over a year ago we have decided to bring in some additional changes.
We no longer support the Chat function on Neowin, we do not have the resources to monitor it 24/7 Therefore it will not be linked from the main site anymore.
The Babes forum is also dropped. This is not to say that Jokes can no longer be posted in the General Discussion forums, it means we no longer support or allow the posting of images that are in most cases either copyrighted or that people find offensive.
We have received notice that people have sent emails to our host expressing concern about the safety of their childrens browsing behavior on Neowin.
We are not all about who can post the hottest image.. we are trying to deliver tech news for everyone to understand.
Attachments Let me be clear on this once and for all, Neowin is sponsored this means we do not pay anything towards the running of the site, apart from the fact that this site has begun to cost most of the staffs personal life keeping it online and moderated we can not afford to have images go into our database anymore.
The decision to drop support for attachments did not come lightly, it came late, that is all, we had advice from all areas of hosting on this matter even so far as vbulletin developers themselves were amazed that the board still functioned with the amount of traffic it was getting. accept it, use your free ISP space or signup for a free account if you want to help Neowin its a small price to pay.
We no longer support the Chat function on Neowin, we do not have the resources to monitor it 24/7 Therefore it will not be linked from the main site anymore.
The Babes forum is also dropped. This is not to say that Jokes can no longer be posted in the General Discussion forums, it means we no longer support or allow the posting of images that are in most cases either copyrighted or that people find offensive.
We have received notice that people have sent emails to our host expressing concern about the safety of their childrens browsing behavior on Neowin.
We are not all about who can post the hottest image.. we are trying to deliver tech news for everyone to understand.
Attachments Let me be clear on this once and for all, Neowin is sponsored this means we do not pay anything towards the running of the site, apart from the fact that this site has begun to cost most of the staffs personal life keeping it online and moderated we can not afford to have images go into our database anymore.
The decision to drop support for attachments did not come lightly, it came late, that is all, we had advice from all areas of hosting on this matter even so far as vbulletin developers themselves were amazed that the board still functioned with the amount of traffic it was getting. accept it, use your free ISP space or signup for a free account if you want to help Neowin its a small price to pay.
Microsoft's Goodhew maintained that W32.Donut is irrelevant. The virus, he said, was written using Windows code and is very similar to one that came out last March called W32.Winux. The Donut virus also could be written to infect other file types, he added.
But "this virus itself is a new virus," Symantec's Yamamura said, even though only a small part of it--the part that targets .Net files--was written in the .Net programming language.
Virus researcher Rob Rosenberger, editor of virus information site VMyths.com, agrees with Microsoft's position. He said the virus is standard and only used a token amount of the .Net language, Microsoft Intermediate Language, or MSIL.
"It's like using the term 'woman' to describe a male cross-dresser," Rosenberger said.
The virus, which affects computers running Windows 2000 and XP, was not detected by antivirus software until vendors included a definition, or fingerprint, for it in their products this week, said Vincent Gullotto, senior research director for Network Associates' Antivirus Research Team.
Microsoft and the antivirus vendors agreed that the risk from the virus is extremely low because so few people have .Net software installed on their computers and because the virus can not spread itself.
In addition, the .Net software has mechanisms that would prevent it from running on a system, Goodhew said.
"Not only is there very little chance that it will ever propagate, but it also does no damage" to the system, Goodhew said.
So far, software developers are the only ones using .Net technology, under a standard beta, or test, program.
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