18th October 2003 Archive

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• ‘Kill Bill’ Trojan fails to rack up body count

  Low risk malware poses as movie subtitle file

  A new backdoor (spying program) which poses as a DivX file containing subtitles from the latest Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill has been spotted on the Net. The low-spreading Manda-A (AKA PWSteal.Salira) Trojan arrives as a .RAR archive with a malformed header. This archive, 35347 bytes in size, has a movie subtitle name Kill …

  Anti-Virus 18 Oct 2003, 10:16

• Palm's Nagel risks SEC wrath with OS claims

  SonyEricsson denies talks

  PalmSource's CEO David Nagel faces questions about his claims that the company is in talks to license PalmOS to SonyEricsson. The handset manufacturer has flatly denied any such talks are taking place. SonyEricsson would represent a major win for Nagel's PalmSource licensing operation. Nagel's comments encouraged a rally on …

  Mobile 18 Oct 2003, 10:17

• Options dwindle for London baseball mavens

  Googlebug du jour

  Baseball fans in London have just ten online destinations to follow their favorite sport, if Google is to be believed. Last week Google offered fourteen. Of course Google finds far more matching results than it reports: 330,000, it tells us. It simply deems 329,993 of them as unfit for browsing, and we can't see them. Why? …

  Music and Media 18 Oct 2003, 20:04