Gates says Microsoft tackling viruses more quickly news
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Microsoft is cutting the time it takes to blitz viruses but needs personal computer users to turn on their autoupdating features to help it combat potentially dangerous attacks Bill Gates has said
Computer security experts said a virus designed to steal financial data and passwords from Web users rippled across the internet on Friday exploiting a vulnerability in servers using Microsofts software
Known as the Scob outbreak the attack has been termed more dangerous than the recent Sasser and Blaster infections...
Microsoft cutting virus combat time: Bill Gates news
The thing we have to do is not only get these patches done very quickly we also have to convince people to turn on autoupdate
The Microsoft Windows auto update feature which is not turned on by default allows security and other software to be updated and installed automatically
Gates also said Microsoft would revamp its Internet search site in July with a new search engine using its dominant industry position to take market share from Google Inc
In July the format of the site will change and so the quality of what you get and the way itll look is dramatically improved Gates told reporters...
Computer central: E-mail programs change to keep up with 'Gmail' news
Some notes from the world of computing
In the wake of Google announcing Gmail a free mail program offering 1 gig of space Yahoo has increased its free offering to 100 megs and its paid offering 20 a year to 2 gigs Yahoo has a great spam filter too Your attachments can be up to 10 megs in size now too
I would expect Hotmail to change soon it offers 2 megs because Microsoft doesnt stay in third place for long You cant sign up for Gmail yet but expect a launch soon Everyone is currently going nuts trying to be part of the beta test for the service so they can grab the cool user names...
Free E-mail Service news
By Alan Andrews
ail vendors have just gone wild with free email service bundled with superb features Just last week Microsoft joined Google and Yahoo to provide more storage space to for its free email service So right now there are three email vendors who have upped the ante in offering free feature rich email service This week we take a look at what each of them is offeringI currently use Yahoo Hotmail as well as two other paid email services I am extremely happy with the per cent spam free service I enjoy from the free email Yahoo service I also use Hotmail as I need a...