Persistence pays for Klez worm

With 13 months of infecting systems, the Klez worm is a tribute to the sheer number of computer users that don't update their antivirus software annually, let alone by the hour. Klez-H, the latest of the Klez stable of Internet worms, heads Sophos's top ten virus list for February, with Klez-E also featuring at number seven. The spate of Lovegate variants, which received much media coverage as the new viruses to avoid, hardly made it into the list at all. ...more

McAfee gets lucky with security fix

McAfee has fixed a serious security hole in its software by accident. According to security specialists eEye Digital, McAfee's ePolicy Orchestrator for monitoring and administrating McAfee's enterprise software products was flawed with a vulnerability in its Framework Service component. The flaw, if successfully exploited, would allow an attacker to use the system so that rather then send out configuration changes to a specific file on the client software, any code could be sent out and written anywhere on the target systems. ...more

UPDATED: Microsoft to allow Windows XP SP2 to run on pirated copies

Microsoft is determined that the forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will make the operating system more secure - even if it costs the company money. Therefore Microsoft has decided that SP2 will run on pirated copies of Windows XP. The earlier SP1 didn't work with bootleg copies of the operating system. ...more

3D projection comes to life

One of the more unusual exhibits at the recent Comdex 2000 show in Las Vegas was a 3-dimensional projection system. Okay, so it is not the kind of thing you are going to buy for the living room, but the display given by Dimensional Media left a lot of the viewers wondering, "How did they do that?" The units developed by Dimensional Media, originally for military purposes, bounce an object's light into space. This makes an image appear to be floating above a unit. ...more

CES: Bill Gates promises more Microsoft muscle for entertainment media

Bill Gates hit the CES floor last night for a keynote outlining how Microsoft is putting its muscle behind media and entertainment. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday, Redmond's Chief Software Architect highlighted how its Media Center will continue to form the hub for many of the entertainment devices that have its backing. Gates said Media Center PCs had doubled sales this year to 1. ...more