VB virus hides itself as a McAfee report

Security companies are warning of a new Visual Basic virus hidden in a document purporting to be a McAfee report. The Word document 'McAfee Inc.report' arrives attached to an email with the sender spoofed as mcafee@europe. ...more

Palm cuts workforce by 19 per cent

Palm has confirmed that 19 per cent of its total workforce has been laid off in the previous three months. Its workforce has been reduced to a total of 900 employees. To be precise, both the hardware division, Palm Solutions Group, and the software-oriented PalmSource group have been affected. ...more

Lycos steals march on Google with world's first 1Gb email storage

Lycos Europe has scooped both Google and Yahoo by launching the first email service offering up to 1Gbyte of storage. Unlike the Google 'Gmail' service, the service won't be financed by contextual ads but by hard cash. The 'Lycos Personal` service will cost ?3. ...more

UK Office XP prices announced

Microsoft has announced its UK pricing scheme for the forthcoming Office XP release, along with details of a pre-release trial programme. The latest version of the all-singing all-dancing Office suite that replaces Office 2000 will be available for similar retail prices. There are four versions: Standard (ERP ?429, upgrades ?199), Professional (?519, ?269), Professional Special Edition (ERP ?319) and Developer (?749, ?449). ...more

US TV pirates walk the plank

Yesterday, America's biggest sporting event filled a million TVs across the Home of the Brave, but for some unlucky punters the Superbowl was replaced by static. DirecTV - a US satellite TV service - decided that it would send out electronic counter measures and jam anyone using a pirate access card. The signal was deemed a success and is thought to have killed 100,000 bootleg subscribers, replacing their Superbowl coverage with a snide message saying 'Game Over'. ...more