Further evidence of viruses being turned into advertising spam: MailWatch kindly informed me that a message sent in my name had SoBig F aboard: “MailWatch has scanned your e-mail message and determined it can not be delivered as originally sent,” the message says. As I’ve pointed out earlier, just because a virus appears to be … Read more
From the Annoying And Pointless Email Notification Dept comes this: an automated alert from a website that doesn’t quite get it. As you know, the Sobig virus/worm spreads like crazy because it raids people’s address books and then fires off copies of itself to emails it finds there. But to confuse people into thinking the … Read more
It’d be too much to suggest that Bill Gates reads my column, but Microsoft seem to be buying my idea (well not mine, really) that prices of their software should be geared to what local people can afford. IDG News Service’s Taipei Bureau reports that the US software company has cut the price of its … Read more
I should have known, given the whole virus thing is big business, that if one company announces a new product, its rival down the street isn’t likely to stay silent. Hot on the heels (or maybe before, who knows) of McAfee’s upgrade to its VirusScan, Symantec Corp.announced Norton AntiVirus 2004, although tellingly it’s not ‘widely … Read more
McAfee today have unveiled a new version of McAfee VirusScan, equipped with new features including an enhanced WormStopper, which automatically detects and alerts users when their systems are attempting to send email to an unusually large number of addresses. It also alerts users when the system attempts to send out too many single emails within … Read more