The past few weeks have become a real calamity for the users of personal computers and other devices all over Europe. This calamity is triggered by the massive attacks of new encoder program Trojan.Encoder.94. Last week the encoder reached the borders of several countries in Latin America which could not but harass all customer community. So far the companies, which make business on developing antivirus systems, cannot find the ways of preventing the penetration of encoder, despite multiple notifications and urgent security measures from the customers’ part.


The operation chart of Trojan.Encoder.94 is targeted mainly on user files. Once the program gets into the system, it immediately encodes all data in PC or other device. Text, graphic, audio and video files fall under encoding, and when the user tries to open the needed file, the program displays the notification which contains information about the possible methods of error removal. All of those methods dwindle down to a …

In early August, it was mentioned about the fact that MSI developer of motherboards is preparing to release three new products in the form factor Mini-ITX on chipsets A85, B75, and Z77. As it turned out, the first low-cost board will be MSI B75IA-E33 — it will start selling in Europe at the end of this week at prices ranging from € 95.



The functionality of this product is limited with respect to the other two models; however, a set of components in B75IA-E33 is very decent. LGA1155 processor socket is energized by three phases (provides additional power to the ATX12V 4-pin), hidden under a small cooler chipset Intel B75. Available one connector PCI Express 3.0 x16, two slots for memory modules DDR3-1066/1333/1600 total up to 16 GB, SATA port 6Gb / s and SATA 3 Gbit / s (3 units) to connect storage devices.


A pair of USB 3.0 on the rear panel are completed with a 19-pin connector on the PCB, through which on the front panel I / O can be taken two SuperSpeed USB. The …

On a recent day the Micron company has added three samples of the 250 GB, 500 GB and 2 TB capacity to its Crucial MX500 SSDs line. Besides, the 1 TB model went on sale last month.

 

The novelties are performed in the 2.5”/7 mm form factor on the base of 64-layer 3D TLC NAND microchips. They are equipped with the SATA 6 Gb/s interface.

 

Crucial MX500 drives feature the 560 MB/s sequential read speed and 510 MB/s sequential write speed. The Silicon Motion SM2258 controller acts as a logic set. Productivity while 4 KB random clusters handling reaches 95,000 IOPS at read and 90,000 IOPS at write. All solid state drives obtained the 5-year warranty from the manufacturer.

 

Micron planned to produce their Crucial MX500 series drives as Samsung 850 EVO devices’ competitors. Official retailers are already receiving these specialties at the $80, $140 and $500 recommended price for the 250 GB, 500 GB …