PCs help boost HP profits

The world's largest PC builder profits from its first quarter financial results. For the first three months of its 2003 financial year, HP reports a slight decline in sales but a growth in profit. Revenue for the new HP - these figures reflect the state of play after the merger with Compaq, remember - stood at $17. ...more

Intel wields the axe on processor prices

It's that time of the year again - Intel makes its chips cheaper, and if you just hold on, we'll tell you by how much. The largest slice comes in the form of 32 per cent off an Intel PIII 1.2Ghz desktop chip, built on the new 0. ...more

Yahoo! joins in with anti-spyware toolbar feature

In the latest round of me-tooism, Yahoo! has introduced an anti-spyware feature for its toolbar. The new tool, based on technology from the award winning Pest Patrol, claims to be able to detect and remove Adware, backdoors, downloaders, browser hijackers, hostile Java and ActiveX controls, tracking cookies and Trojans. Unlike Microsoft's solution launched last week, the Yahoo! tool is purely a detect and destroy tool and doesn't offer any immunisation protection or automatic updating features although it will tell you if a new version of detection database is available for download. ...more

Time Warner to drop AOL from name

AOL Time Warner is to drop the 'AOL' part of its name and revert to the pre-merger name of Time Warner. It is also to change its stock ticker back to TWX. The changes reflect the feeling in the company that the name AOL Time Warner has become synonymous with the dot com madness of the late 1990s. ...more

New Sluter virus free with its favours

Sophos has alerted users of a network-aware worm that attacks with a range of just 16 passwords. Weak passwords are often the favourite exploit of viruses targeting home users, and Sluter-A uses an array of 16 variations based on just eight passwords. However, Sluter-A uses admin, root, server and various lengths of a few sequences: 1234, 4321, asdf and !"?$, as tools to prise open access to network shares named C$ and Admin$. ...more