Persistence pays for Klez worm

With 13 months of infecting systems, the Klez worm is a tribute to the sheer number of computer users that don't update their antivirus software annually, let alone by the hour. Klez-H, the latest of the Klez stable of Internet worms, heads Sophos's top ten virus list for February, with Klez-E also featuring at number seven. The spate of Lovegate variants, which received much media coverage as the new viruses to avoid, hardly made it into the list at all. ...more

Festive Internet traffic doubles from 2003

British Internet and email use on Christmas Day and Boxing Day was double that of 2003 according to the London Internet Exchange (Linx). Internet traffic through Linx hit a peak of around 45 Gb/sec on Christmas Day and 50 Gb/sec on Boxing Day. Although Linx says the numbers are not directly comparable, the figures are double those for 2003, when the peaks were 25 Gb/sec on Boxing Day and around 22 Gb/sec on Christmas day. ...more

W3C gives browsing a voice

The organisation that determines Web standards is turning its attention, once again, towards vocal interaction with websites. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has announced it is relaunching its Voice Browser Working Group, to better enable users to speak and listen to Web-based apps. The group, says the W3C, will concentrate on 'standardising languages for capturing and producing speech, and for managing the dialog between users and computers'. ...more

There's life in the old CRT yet...

NEC-Mitsubshi is launching a 22in CRT monitor for graphics professionals. The Mitsubishi Diamond Pro2060u offers a resolution of 1600x1200 at 85Hz, but can handle as much as 1920x1440 at 80Hz on its Diamontron NF tube. It supports sRGB and has a grille pitch of 0. ...more

HP adds email to its latest camera

Hewlett-Packard has announced the latest addition to its range of digital cameras, the Photosmart 812, which includes the ability to 'tag' each picture taken with information that determines where the picture is stored or sent. As pictures are taken, the user can tag each picture with, for example, an email address or a printer destination. After the camera is connected to a computer, the tags are read and the pictures automatically printed or emailed as specified. ...more