11th March 2006 Archive

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• Virus names likely a lost cause

  KamaSutra, Blackmal, Nyxem, MyWife, huh?

  In early February, anti-virus firms warned customers about a computer virus programmed to delete files on the third of each month, but almost every company called the program by a different name. A month later, the companies still use a hodge-podge of monikers for the program: Blackmal, Nyxem, MyWife, KamaSutra, Blackworm, …

  Security 11 Mar 2006, 00:02

• You're taking the p*ss, Europe tells Microsoft

  Foot dragging, insolence and bloatware

  Microsoft continues to flout its anti-trust order, the European Commission said on Friday in two strongly worded statements. The EC has again written to Redmond explaining where it's failing to comply with a 2004 decision by the competition office. Further study of Microsoft's submissions - it's obliged to document its …

  Music and Media 11 Mar 2006, 01:48

• Supermicro stuns with four-socket, 1U Opteron bad boy

  Stand back

  Supermicro has crammed about as much processing power as possible into a 1U x86 box by delivering a four-socket Opteron-based system. Customers can purchase a the H8QC8+ quad server board that holds up to four of AMD's dual-core 800 Series chips and supports a 1GHz Hypertransport link. Samples of the system have already started …

  Servers 11 Mar 2006, 01:51