Antivirus revenues continue to climb

According to research group Gartner, antivirus revenues are continuing to climb, despite consolidation of the market and the entrance of Microsoft. Year on year, the revenues from the market have grown some 13 per cent to more than $4 billion. However, Gartner says it has changed the way it tots up the figures: whereas previously it collected data on new sales, it is now accounting for subscription renewals and managed services, which will naturally lift the figures. ...more

March virus activity highlights peer-to-peer dangers

Sophos's top ten chart for the month of March reveals that viruses targetting peer-to-peer networks are hitting hard. In the number one position, as it has been for the past 14 months, sits Klez. But while there is usually little movement below this, March has seen two new entries. ...more

Legal music downloads triple in popularity

Legal music downloads tripled in the first half of 2005, while the level of unauthorised file sharing remains flat, despite extensive efforts to suppress it. The latest figures from the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) show that 180 million downloads were sold in the first six months of this year, more than three times the 57 million figure for the first half of 2004. The total number of downloads, so far, for 2005 is already in excess of the total for the whole of last year, 157 million. ...more

Mozilla fixes more holes in Firefox

Mozilla has released an update to Firefox which addresses three security vulnerabilities. The three vulnerabilities now fixed comprise the Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides, 'Wrapped' javascript: urls bypass security checks and Code execution via javascript: IconURL. The update also fixes DHTML errors encountered at some websites - for more information on this go to developer-test. ...more

UK businesses have broadband advantage

UK businesses enjoy the some of the cheapest broadband prices, according to a new report by industry regulator Oftel. Oftel's Internet and Broadband Brief - July 2002 shows that amongst the countries surveyed - the UK, Sweden, the USA, Germany and France - UK SMEs (small and medium enterprises) pay an average of ?29 per month, largely due to BT's recent cut in its DSL wholesale prices from ?30 to ?14.75. ...more