MicroTechXP

Looks like Vista’s much-maligned User Access Control or UAC has one benefit for a savvy user: it can detect rootkits before they install. AV-Test.org conducted a test of popular antivirus programs to see how well they detected rootkits and the tester had to turn off UAC on the Vista test systems because it detected every rootkit used in the test. 
Once on a PC, rootkits can bury themselves quietly, but they have to get to that point first. As long as users interpret prompts from the UAC system attentively, or those messages haven’t in some way been spoofed, rootkits struggle to jump to the PC without drawing attention to themselves. [HardOCP]

Samsung has announced a low-cost 1 Terabyte HD, that will be available to consumers in June, at an affordable price of $199. With the growing desire for multimedia content, larger hard drives have become important to those of us who need such storage. Samsung has promised to keep specs that will be up to par with consumer needs, and this new drive will use 50% less power than it’s other 1TB models.
With the burden of managing HD’s today, Samsung could really take the lead with such a drive.[TechRadar]