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Bugbear worm ANTI-virus companies warned computer users about a new worm that opens up a backdoor in the computers and logs keystrokes. The Bugbear worm takes advantage of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer, Vincent Gullotto, vice president of the anti-virus response team at Network Associates Inc. said. It shuts down anti-virus and firewall software designed to block out intruders and can spread by dropping copies of itself into folders on shared networks, which are commonly used at corporations and large organisations. It is ranked a ‘’medium’’ risk, he added. MessageLabs, a UK-based e-mail outsourcing provider, said it had seen 1,200 copies of the worm and that the first copy it received was from Malaysia. Meanwhile, one per cent of the bugs in Microsoft Corp’s software cause half of all reported errors with 20 per cent of bugs responsible for 80 per cent of the mistakes, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said. News addiction Employees are far more likely to be addicted to news than to pornography, a survey has found. Websense, a San Diego-based firm which provides software to monitor Web habits at work, has found that news sites are proving the real Internet addiction for employees. It has to be said, of course, that most companies block access to porn sites. Just over 20 per cent of those surveyed said that they thought news was the most addictive Web content, compared to 18 per cent for pornography and 8 per cent for gambling sites. Nearly 70 per cent admitted surfing news sites for personal reasons. Only 2 per cent confess to looking at pornography at work. Web obsession at work is still a real problem with a quarter of employees confessing to feeling addicted. It is estimated that it will cost an organisation of 1,000 employees an average of £ 30m each year if all its workers surfed for non-work related content for just an hour a day. Train tickets online Announcing the launch of the Eastern Railway’s online reservation service, railway officials said passengers could now book the tickets from home or the nearest cyber cafe. One just has to log on to the Indian Railways online reservation site (www.irctc.co.in) and create his or here computer identity and book the ticket. Against one credit card, a passenger can book six tickets at a time and four times a month, railway officials said and added that for the time being payments for such tickets have to be done by Visa or MasterCard credit cards. After booking the ticket, the passengers will have the option to get the ticket delivered home by courier services. Kolkata was, however, the last major cities, where the facility was extended. The Northern, Western and Southern Railways have already extended the facility to residents of Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. Simputer @ Singapore Simputer, a handheld
computer developed by a group of scientists from Indian Institute of
Science here and Encore Software Limited, is all set for international
launch next month in Singapore, a senior official said. Vinay L.
Deshpande, the chairman of the Simputer Trust said some 300 developers
representing more than 35 countries are expected to attend the launch.
He said that Simputer had already attracted international attention and
hailed a technological marvel. Singapore has been selected as the launch
site as it has a good image in the international market and there is a
hope that it will be a good marketing ground for the handheld device.—
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