Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Jan 2006 17:34 UTC
Customers and partners who've been holding their breath waiting for Beta 2 of Windows Vista before getting serious about testing Microsoft's next-generation operating system can exhale. There will be no single, catch-all Beta 2 of Vista, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platform Products & Services Division. Instead, Microsoft is planning to rely increasingly on CTP builds to get its feedback from Windows testers. Elsehwere, Allchin said you should buy Vista for its security enhancements.
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2005-10-06
>Then name them (viruses that delete personal files), right here, right now, for all to see...
http://www.gatortechnologies.com/res-alerts.php
You needn't even bother looking it up - here's the relevant bit.....
"February 25, 2004 - A variant of the MyDoom virus deletes user files and is becoming increasingly widespread. Home users are especially at risk because home computers often lack firewalls, up-to-date antivirus software and backups.
This new virus arrives via email with subjects including: "Approved," "Your Credit Card" and "You use illegal File Sharing...Your IP was logged.". If the email's attatchment is opened, it will delete random Word, Excel and media files, and try to propogate itself to other computers over the computer's internet connection....."
Also I believe the 'googkle' exploit a couple of years ago (mistyping www.google.com - easy to do, the 'k' gets hit on the way to the 'l') contained one payload that did the same, according to a friend who was hit.