And also today (12-Mar-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. XP beta slips again The Windows information Web site, WinInfo, reports that the scheduled beta 2 release of Windows XP has slipped again, but this time only a week or so. It is now due out 21 March. ...more

Bank domain names overdrawn - F-Secure

Computer security firm F-Secure has done an survey into the number of bank names that have been registered as Internet domains, but not by the banks themselves. A simple search across the .com, . ...more

Sober worm to cause weekend hangover

Antivirus companies are warning that fresh variants of the Sober worm are set to cause havoc over this weekend. Variants of the Sober worm have been particularly contagious in Europe as they have the ability to display the language of their texts in either German or English depending on the domain of the target email. Subject lines in English include 'Oh God' and 'Delivery_failure_notice', but German computer users may receive emails which claim to have come from a 21-year-old blonde GoGo dancer who says she has attached naked photographs of herself. ...more

Analysts praise BT Vision but warn of tough market

Analysts have expressed a cautious welcome for BT's new broadband TV service: BT Vision. Jupiter Research's Ian Fogg warned not to judge the success or otherwise of the new platform in the immediate future. He suggests the BT move to offer content was as much a push as a jump. ...more

WinZip Companion for Outlook introduced

The makers of WinZip, the ubiquitous file compression utility for PCs have come up with a new version for email. The WinZip Companion for Outlook can be configured to automatically or manually Zip attachments on outgoing emails. For added security the company has also added an encryption facility As attachments get larger with people shunting larger and larger files around the Internet, they are often rejected by mail servers for being too large. ...more