MICROSOFT’S DIGITAL FORENSICS software has been spotted on a file-sharing site, available for all to download.

Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) is a forensics tool that fits on a USB drive for the police to use in PC forensics.

The software is free to police forces around the world and helps access details about crimes such as identity theft, online fraud, child pornography and illegal filesharing before criminals can wipe the information.

It’s reportedly illegal for unauthorised people to download and use the software.

According to the Vole it takes the average bobbie “with even minimal computer experience” less than ten minutes to master the program.

“This enables the officer to take advantage of the same common digital forensics tools used by experts to gather important volatile evidence, while doing little more than simply inserting a USB device into the computer,” said Microsoft.

The Vole and police are worried that cyber criminals could analyse COFEE and write code that would identify and intercept it, securely wiping incriminating data from their hard drives.

COFEE requires Windows XP but it does have some Windows Vista support. According to company insiders, Microsoft is developing a new version of COFEE that will be released next year for Windows Vista and Windows 7. µ

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After going to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to add Official Mandriva distribution medias following the instructions there on that website. Log into root on your shell use the su command and type in root password type the following command in for a fast install kde and gnome.

urpmi task-kde

to install gnome type in

urpmi task-gnome

More info on urpmi http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi#Using_urpmi

Full insructions on how to install mandriva 2008.1 are avalible at

http://howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-mandriva-one-2008-spring-kde

Slow internet speed for Mandriva 2009.0 2008.1 2008.0

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This could be a major speed problem if you just installed mandriva 2008.0 or 2008.1 or 2009.0 and you are using a router that is running ipv4. Mandriva default on 2008.0, 2008.1, and 2009.0 is defaulted as ipv6. In that case you probably need to modify the following files for faster Internet surfing. Modification of these files will at least double your Internet speed, unless you are using a ipv6 router.

Slow internet response (particularly web browsing)

See also Bug #27070. There is a known problem with all Linux distributions that enable IPv6 networking (the new standard for network addresses which uses a longer, hexadecimal address format to provide a much larger number of possible addresses. The old standard is IPv4, which gives the four-groups-of-three-digits decimal address format most people are familiar with, e.g. 216.105.167.65). Some systems and networks do not cope well if your system has IPv6 networking enabled. If you experience sluggish response on the Internet – especially when browsing web sites – and cannot find the cause, you should try disabling IPv6. To do this, edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf, add the following line, and reboot:

install ipv6 /bin/true

See also
Bug #27073.
If this does not resolve the problem, there is another possibility.
Most Linux distributions, including Mandriva, enable a kernel feature
called TCP window scaling. This is useful for increasing the speed of
transfers over very high bandwidth connections. However, a change was
made in the default values for TCP window scaling in kernel 2.6.17,
which seems to cause very slow network performance for some users
with some internet sites. To see if TCP window scaling is the
problem, you can disable it with this command:

sysct1
-w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0

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