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| New worm eats into Kazaa |
The Kazaa file-swapping network has been hit by another worm, just months after the first such attack, according to antivirus vendors.
Antivirus company Sophos said it had received several reports of the KWBot worm in the wild. KWBot appears to be the second worm to hit the Kazaa network, which fell prey to the Benjamin worm in May.
KWBot spreads in a similar way to Benjamin in that it alters...Read More
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| AltaVista upgrades search engine |
AltaVista Co yesterday unveiled a handful of upgrades to its web search engine to compete in an increasingly competitive market where it has lost much of its early lead. The company, a CMGI Inc subsidiary, introduced Prisma, a feature that allows users to drill down into related terms to refine their search queries.
The Palo Alto, California-based company said Prisma searches the top 50 sites...Read More
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| BT cuffed for broadband ad fib |
The Advertising watchdog has mauled BT for a misleading broadband ad.
The monster telco claimed that its domestic broadband service was 40 times faster than a traditional dial-up service.
This was disputed by Telewest which claimed BT's domestic broadband service was only ten times faster than bog standard Net access.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) agreed adding that BT's faster...Read More
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| The record labels' new target--Joe Blow? |
Record labels hell-bent on strangling unauthorized music copying on the Internet are considering widening their legal efforts to include lawsuits against individuals, according to industry sources.
The move comes as the industry wrestles to contain the effects of peer-to-peer software applications that allow consumers to link their PCs into massive cooperatives where millions of music titles can...Read More
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