Thursday, December 2, 2010

Malware Description IS Very Poor

This is the first sentence of two that Symantec has given in its summary for the malware:

Trojan.ADH is a detection technology designed to detect entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

My initial thought was that this malware was using some new detection technology, but then after re-reading I realized it was being detected by technology being utilized by Symantec. Here is my simple modification to that sentence:

Trojan.ADH was detected by technology designed to detect entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

That would be the bare minimum change needed. A slightly different wording with another improvement would be:

Trojan.ADH has been detected by technology designed to identify entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

And this is the final most effecient revision:

Trojan.ADH was detected by technology designed to find entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures.

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As an additional comment I would to add my following observation. I did not see an explanation for what ADH meant, but am guessing that it stands for Automatic Detection Heuristic. When I was checking the spelling for heuristic by type in my toolbars search box (with search suggestions turned ON) I saw heuristic.adh listed that might indicate that I might be corrent in this assumption.

in reference to: Trojan.ADH | Symantec (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

YouTube Help Page - Accurate, but I wish...

YouTube Help Page - Accurate, but I wish they would add another choice from the existing options to replace the current list so that the user to select remove it entirely.

I like that the page shows me how current it is with the dimmed text for the last time it was updated and in this case it shows the date of 10/9/2010.

I think that Google is making a valiant effort to put back the You in YouTube because it shows and not just in words, but by actions. Which can be seen from looking at their known issues page.

in reference to: The playlist bar : Learn More - YouTube Help (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Downloading YouTube Videos in MP4 File Format

This is a Sidewiki entry for this specific part of this web page: "Some partners on YouTube allow you to download their videos in the MP4 file format."

This used to work and I was able to download a video that I had purchased via Google Checkout, but for some reason it does not work now. At first I thought it was because of YouTube's redesign of the internal workings because the video that I had purchased is still listed as having been purchased and the expiration date says that it does not expire; although the YouTube user/partner was not so happy with the quality of the MP4 and was no longer making that video available for sale.

But I just finished purchasing another video and I still don't get any way to download it as an MP4 file. Hopefully they will fix this since I used the 'Report a Bug' feature that can be found to the lower, left of most YouTube pages.

in reference to: Viewing MP4 video files : Learn More - YouTube Help (view on Google Sidewiki)

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Latin Small Letter A Should Have Breve Instead of Macron

The first entry in the table for the letter a with the example given as 'pat' has the Macron 'ˉ' modifier mark above it, but it should be the Breve ' ˘ ' modifier mark. The corrected entry should look something like this:

╠════╬══════
║ ă ║ pat
╠════╬══════

in reference to:

"ā"
- Dictionary.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

An Excellent YouTube Channel

This YouTube channel is a very good demonstration of what the 'new' YouTube Design was intended for.

in reference to: YouTube - CapriccioMusic's Channel (view on Google Sidewiki)

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Star Wars 2 Part 5

I see a strange parallel to what is going on at the end of this clip (about 9:00) regarding democracy, dictators and the past president's remark that a dictatorships are not good unless he was the dictator.