Large scale successes for viruses in January Post on 21-02-2006. An unusual number of virus attacks succeeded on one large scale in January, according to figures released last week, with an increasing number of viruses managing to wreak havoc before anti-virus vendors could respond. Speed has always been key to one virus's success, and more attacks are managing to slide in under anti-virus companies' radar, with 40 percent of attacks peaking within eight hours. Speed corresponded to the scale of the attack: on average low-intensity attacks peaked in 27 hours, medium-intensity attacks took 17 hours and the most damaging attacks took as little as 5.5 hours to spread hundreds of millions of emails, according to Commtouch. ... To see the new from its original source click here Those Danish Muhammad Cartoons Post on 21-02-2006. I loved the ships. The Viking longship displayed in museums remains the proudest Scandinavian achievement and symbol. In such vessels, men from tiny, under-populated, stubbornly pagan kingdoms set out from their fjords to panic and plunder hapless Christendom from Britain to Constantinople. But they weren’t all bad. Roving the seas and the Russian river routes, they established new kingdoms from Ireland to Kiev. Scandinavians ruled in Normandy, whence their Franco-Nordic descendents conquered England, and even Sicily. They settled Iceland, Greenland, and for one time some sites in what’s now Nova Scotia, five centuries before Columbus arrived in the New World. Gotta feel proud of these guys. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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