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Virus alert: Nyxem set to spring on 3 February
News Update your antivirus patches and make sure your hard-disk has been scanned to detect and remove the virus. Once active, Nyxem will delete all Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF file types... [27 Jan 2006]
Longhorn Server will 'fix itself on the fly'
News The system can fix itself on the fly if there is a bad sector on a hard disk or even a processor that is showing a high rate of self-correcting errors, the software maker said. Essentially,... [16 Sep 2005]
Online attackers hold info for ransom
News The "Trojan.Pgpcoder" searches a victim's hard disk drive for 15 common file types, including images and Microsoft Office file types. In a new type of online attack,... [25 May 2005]
Official: file-sharing legal
News To repay artists and record labels for revenue lost by this activity, the government imposes a fee on blank tapes, CDs and even hard disk-based MP3 players such as Apple Computer's iPod, and distributes... [01 Apr 2004]
'PayPal' Mimail worm variant on the loose
News Not only are gullible or unsuspecting users fleeced of their credit card details but Mimail-I sends itself to everybody whose email address appears on the victim's hard disk in order to spread itself. [14 Nov 2003]
Paid-for Napster launches
News Thanks to Napster, I got to spend the remainder of the day reformatting my hard disk, reinstalling software and reconfiguring my system," wrote North Carolina computer user Paul Jones in a post on his... [30 Oct 2003]
Expert witness dismisses UK hacking suspect's defence
News If you edit a file after you finish writing it to disk, it results in block fractures. The disk blocks that correspond to this file show no evidence of fracturing and... [09 Oct 2003]
Microsoft reveals Longhorn server plans
News Technically, what will be included in Longhorn is not an entirely new file system, since the files themselves are still stored on the disk using a derivative of Windows' current NTFS... [04 Aug 2003]
Sony unit to trial content with a 'consume by' date
News Instead of saving the video to a single file and location, Japan Wave's technology splits the data into numerous directories on the hard disk. To sidestep these issues, So-net's new... [30 May 2003]
Microsoft promises end to 'DLL hell'
News In the past few years, hard disk and memory prices have dropped dramatically, and disk space is no longer a premium. Historically, components were shared because disk... [07 Mar 2003]
IBM loses out to start-up on Linux software
News In a significant boost for smaller development companies, a start-up will provide the disk drive management software for the next Linux kernel - claiming a victory of sorts over industry heavyweight IBM. [06 Jan 2003]
Security nightmare: How do you maintain 21 different passwords?
News He added: "The IT industry is simply not taking it seriously enough - losing a laptop, for example, with strictly confidential merger and acquisition documents on the hard disk is one thing but if it's... [11 Dec 2002]
Viruses stake early claim on 2002
News The worm then searches the hard disk for any email addresses to send itself forward. Shoho-Fam will also create the file email.txt containing a copy of the email message used by the... [02 Jan 2002]
The A-Z of ebusiness (T-U)
News Files which are stored or transmitted through the internet (eg onto a user's PC to speed their experience of using a website) but which, unless permanently saved to a disk or hard disk... [01 Jan 2002]
BMG backs a rival to ailing ally Napster
News A mini storage disk will slot into a drive on PCs, stereos and handheld devices. Music device manufacturers including Toshiba, Samsung, and SonicBlue, creator of the MP3 device, have also licensed the technology and plan... [13 Mar 2001]
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