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Hercules sure managed to pull some big surprises last year. First they released their awesome Geforce3 card but then rumors flew that their relationship with nVidia was on the rocks and soon after that, they released graphics cards based on Kyro chipset. Unfortunately, Kyro recently announced its exit from the graphics chips market leaving only one sizeable competitor for nVidia- ATI. With the release of their Radeon 8500, ATI proved itself as a very worthy competitor, however, one area that has traditionally been ATI's biggest weakness is support. Now Hercules has nothing but outstanding comments from everyone on their support and thus when Hercules announced their new graphics cards based on the ATI chipset- it felt like a match made in heaven. Today T-Break have one such card- the Hercules 3D Prophet All-in-Wonder 8500DV.
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Hercules sure managed to pull some big surprises last year. First they released their awesome Geforce3 card but then rumors flew that their relationship with nVidia was on the rocks and soon after that, they released graphics cards based on Kyro chipset. Unfortunately, Kyro recently announced its exit from the graphics chips market leaving only one sizeable competitor for nVidia- ATI. With the release of their Radeon 8500, ATI proved itself as a very worthy competitor, however, one area that has traditionally been ATI's biggest weakness is support. Now Hercules has nothing but outstanding comments from everyone on their support and thus when Hercules announced their new graphics cards based on the ATI chipset- it felt like a match made in heaven. Today T-Break have one such card- the Hercules 3D Prophet All-in-Wonder 8500DV.
View: Complete review article at T-Break
The virus writer has used standard social engineering tricks in creating Britney-A. Previous stars who've had viruses written about them include Anna Kournikova and Jennifer Lopez.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus, said the modest spread of the virus doesn't necessarily imply that the old tactic of using sex to spread infectious code is running out of steam.
"It is encouraging that this virus isn't spreading but that might be because it didn't get lucky and reach the critical mass it needed to spread quickly after its release," Cluley said.
The design of the code - in particular requiring ActiveX to be enabled - might also explain the failure of the Britney-A to chart, said Cluley, who added that users should remember basic safe computing rules and not be coaxed into opening any unsolicited email attachments.
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