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Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City! This is a HUGE update with at least hundreds (if not thousands) of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied. Basically, Google has completed nearly every building in Manhattan Island for Google Earth. Just fly to "New York City" and turn on the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. Tilt your view so you can see the buildings in all their glory. This is the largest city i've seen done with photo-realistic textures to date.

As a comparison, here is what New York's 3D photo-realistic buildings looked like in January 2007:
And here is what it looks like today (click on the image for a high resolution version made with Google Earth Pro)

By the way, many people had already contributed dozens of photo-realistic 3D buildings to NYC since January 2007. And Google has faithfully kept those models in the layer while adding in the new buildings to fill in the gap.

I plan to create a video fly through soon. In the meantime, check it out for yourself in Google Earth now. By the way, there's a cool way of flying around buildings in Google Earth 4.3+ - You can swoop between buildings like Spiderman.

It is estimated around 120 million Facebook users attacked by a virus called "Koobface" using the features of a social networking site for menginfeksi PC. Once spread, the virus will also try to search for sensitive information such as credit card numbers. Koobface is the latest hacker attacks that target users of social networking sites.

"Some type of virus had been using Facebook to reproduce themselves," said spokesman Barry Facebook Shnitt in an e-mail that said that "a small number of users" have to have this virus. "Seizures such as this are rampant, with a relative other attacks such as email," said Craig Schmugar, researchers from McAfee




Koobface attack by sending messages to friends from PC users who already have it. Messages sent titled as "You look just awesome in this new movie" that will take users to sites that require users download the update as claimed Flash player from Adobe Systems, like a virus as the YouTube video.

Please note that Koobface is not a new type of worm. Koobface first appeared in August, although variants of the first special target Facebook users first seen months last Wednesday.

When users download the application, they will contract a virus that will take users to sites that tekontaminasi when they try to use search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and Live.com, according to McAfee.

In the McAfee blog written Wednesday yesterday, researchers from McAfee warns that Koobface attacks are launched on Facebook.

Messages received in the Facebook can only be sent only by members of Facebook, said Chris Boyd, researchers from FaceTime Security Labs. Therefore, users are usually not too suspicious of the messages they receive. "Users are usually unguarded. They think that to send a message you would have to enter your account so do not be possible worms or viruses," continued Boyd.

MySpace social networking site owned by News Corp. have been attacked by a variant Koobface August yesterday, but after solved by technology, their security, the virus has not attacked again since then, said the spokesperson for MySpace.

Facebook has been said to the users to delete emails contaminated and require users to visit www.facebook.com/security on the way to have a clean computer.

McAfee has not identified the perpetrators behind the Koobface continuously develop the capability to penetrate virus security systems Facebook and MySpace.