New virus disguised as IE 7 download ... Dell to delay filings, investigation finds misconduct

HIGHLIGHTS
News: New virus comes disguised as IE 7 download
News: EEye publishes fix for Windows zero-day vulnerability
News: Dell to delay filings, investigation finds misconduct
News: Red Hat says Yahoo relationship intact
Opinion: Identity management and virtual worlds
Geek comic of the week: Numaf
Podcast: Dell finds accounting irregularities, delays results ... Red Hat says Yahoo relationship is strong ... Microsoft shows prototype mobile browser


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New virus comes disguised as IE 7 download
If you receive an e-mail offering a download of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2, delete it. A new virus is making the rounds that comes disguised as a test version of Microsoft Corp.'s current Web browser.

EEye publishes fix for Windows zero-day vulnerability
With online criminals exploiting an unpatched flaw in Windows, security vendor eEye Digital Security Inc. has come forward with an unofficial patch that fixes a bug in the way Windows processes Animated Cursor files.

Dell to delay filings, investigation finds misconduct
An internal investigation at Dell Inc. has found evidence of misconduct and accounting errors, forcing the company to delay filing its annual earnings report with stock market regulators, it said Thursday after the U.S. stock market closed.

Red Hat says Yahoo relationship intact
Tough competition appears to be driving profits down for Red Hat Inc. but the company has hung on to one marquee customer, Yahoo Inc., despite recent reports to the contrary.

ICANN votes against '.xxx' top-level domain again
The overseer of the Internet's addressing system rejected for the second time the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain, supported by some as a way to isolate adult content on the Internet.

Yahoo given go-ahead to buy Taiwanese blog site
A purchase of popular Taiwanese blog site Wretch.cc by Yahoo Taiwan Inc. will not adversely affect competition in the local Internet market, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission ruled Thursday, paving the way for the completion of the deal.

Microsoft unveils 'Deepfish' mobile Web browser
Microsoft Corp. late Wednesday unveiled a mobile Web browser aimed at making surfing the Internet on wireless devices as convenient and feature-rich as browsing on a PC.


OPINION

Identity management and virtual worlds
By Sean McGrath

Virtual worlds are on the rise all over the world. The "new" thing
called the Web has met its first serious challenger in the form of
immersive, 3D environments that underlay Second Life, There, Habbo
Hotel, World of Warcraft etc. Use some of these for a while and the
Web can seem rather flat - physically and metaphorically - by
comparison.

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Geek comic of the week: Numaf
A collaboration between an artist and a philosophy major that they call "the nerdiest project we’ve ever done," Numaf stars a robot named Axiom that travels through the moody and atmospheric metaphysical plane, challenging ideas made concrete. Be sure to start at the beginning, and check out the alt text for each cartoon.

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