Dr. Bill.TV #245 – Video – “The Wild and Wooly Week Edition”

Amazon’s music cloud is licensed by all top labels, eBook sales greater than paper books, Microsoft Surface tablets, error code 451 for censorship, GSotW: BlueGriffon, a WYSIWYG Web Editor, the ‘Trojan.Milicenso’ virus attacks printers!

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Dr. Bill.TV #245 – Audio – “The Wild and Wooly Week Edition”

Amazon’s music cloud is licensed by all top labels, eBook sales greater than paper books, Microsoft Surface tablets, error code 451 for censorship, GSotW: BlueGriffon, a WYSIWYG Web Editor, the ‘Trojan.Milicenso’ virus attacks printers!

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Malware Attack on Printers!

Now, malware is attacking printers! It makes printers print tons and tons of gibberish! How wierd is that?

Thousands of office printers hit by “gibberish” malware

“Summary: What’s been dubbed as a ‘paper salesman’s dream come true,’ thousands of printers worldwide are spewing out garbled content as a result of a malware infection.

Thousands of office printers from large businesses around the world are churning out page after page of gibberish and wasting vast reams of paper.

For once it seems malware is to blame.

Dubbed ‘Trojan.Milicenso,’ it has been described by security researchers as a malware delivery vehicle ‘for hire’ through its repeated use since it was first discovered in 2010, according to security firm Symantec.

The worst hit appear to be large companies in the U.S., India, northern Europe — including the U.K. — and South America.

Symantec said there were a number of ways the malware can find its way onto PCs, including opening a malware-laden email attachment, through a compromised website, or posing as fake video codecs.

Once the malware is opened, it redirects the user to pages to serve up adverts; a common way for malware writers to generate quick revenue.

But one of the apparent ‘side effects’ of the malware affects printers.

The malware unpacks a file in a PCs printer queue, which Windows then turns into a print job. Because these files aren’t readable to ordinary folk without special tools, it churns out incomprehensible gobbledegook, and doesn’t stop until the printer runs out of paper, disconnected from the power supply, or is attacked by a peeved systems administrator with an axe.

It’s like dragging a system file into a plain-text editor: most of the time you’ll see garbage.

If your corporate printers are seemingly spewing out incomprehensible rubbish — it’s either an overworked intern who’s fallen asleep at the keyboard — or more likely a malware infection.”

Geek Software of the Week: BlueGriffon!

BlueGriffonThere was an Open Source Web Editor that was WYSIWYG and was pretty nice! It was called Nvu. But, it is now dead. However, the same developer’s have created an even BETTER version called BlueGriffon! It is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. Check it out!

BlueGriffon – The next-generation Web Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox

“BlueGriffon is a new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it’s a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards.

t’s free to download (current stable version is 1.5.2) and is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

BlueGriffon is available in English, Dutch, Finnish, French, Czech, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Traditional Chinese

BlueGriffon is an intuitive application that provides Web authors (beginners or more advanced) with a simple User Interface allowing to create attractive Web sites without requiring extensive technical knowledge about Web Standards.

Because Gecko lives inside BlueGriffon, the document you edit will look exactly the same in Firefox. Advanced users can always use the Source View to hard-code their page.

BlueGriffon is tri-licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, the GNU General Public License Version 2 and the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1.”