Paul Stewart is the owner of the
Purple Haze cafe in Leith. On Thursday at 4pm its doors will open to members of Scotland's first cannabis club. Paul is nervous about breaking the law but believes passionately in
people's right to take the herb free from prosecution.
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Responding to a wave of online scams, Microsoft Corp. said that it is fixing a flaw in its popular
Internet Explorer that makes it easy to mask the real address of a Web page displayed on the browser, Microsoft will soon release a software update for IE that will end that browser's ability to accept Web URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) that hide the address of the Web page being displayed using the "@" symbol. The update will remove a feature that is being exploited in scams that use spoof Web sites to harvest personal information from unsuspecting Internet users, Microsoft said in a note posted on its Web page Tuesday.
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Free Trade, An interesting way of looking at this issue.
A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market.
A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market.
A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market.
We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.
We can purchase almost anything we want from many different
countries BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian (Or Mexico) pharmacy. That's called un-American!
And you think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!
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Novargs Arsenal of tricks
Opening the attachment runs the viral program, unleashing its arsenal of tricks. First it emails itself to all the addresses in the victim's address book, either as the fake text file or a compressed zip file. The latter may be an effort to evade corporate email filters that block executable files.
It also attempts to spread via the popular file-sharing network Kazaa, if this installed on the victim's machine. The virus copies itself to the Kazaa directory disguised as a copy of a popular computer application, such as Microsoft's Office. Any computer user downloading the file and running it would become infected.
Aside from attempts to spread itself, the virus places a hidden program on infected machines that would allow a malicious hacker to control the computer remotely. The hidden program is also set to launch an attack against the web site belonging to US computer company SCO on 1 February. Thousands of infected computers working in unison could overload the site and make it inaccessible to web browsers.
SCO has incurred the anger of computer enthusiasts who support the free operating system Linux by alleging that important Linux system code is covered by its copyrights. SCO has demanded royalties from both companies and individuals using the community-developed operating system.
The final trick deployed by the virus is a key-logging program. This records a user's keyboard strokes and could be used to harvest passwords and credit card information.
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