Keep an eye on those photos
New Virus Infects Picture Files, Wired News

"WASHINGTON -- A new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet's most common and useful activities: sharing family photos.

The malicious program is the first ever to infect picture files, though it is not currently attacking computers. Called "Perrun," it worries researchers because it is the first to be able to cross from infecting a program to infecting data files, long considered safe from such threats".

While the consequences of a virus that would attack data files is disturbing, the virus still requires that you run an attached program when you receive an e-mail. Nobody does that anymore, I hope.

Virus Alert
Due to an increased number of submissions, Symantec Security Response is upgrading VBS.VBSWG.AQ@mm from a Category 2 to a Category 3.
VBS.VBSWG.AQ@mm is a worm that disguises itself as a file named "ShakiraPics.jpg.vbs" and will email itself to users of Microsoft Outlook or IRC. This threat also overwrites .vbs and .vbe files with its own code. VBS.VBSWG.AQ@mm is written in VBScript.

The worm may also be referred to by any of the following names: VBS/VBSWG.aq@MM, VBS_VBSWG.AQ, VBS/VBSWG-AQ, VBSWG.AQ

The email has the following characteristics:

Subject: Shakira's Pictures
Message:
Hi :
i have sent the photos via attachment have funn...
Attachment: ShakiraPics.jpg.vbs

Future of Wireless
ZDNet: Story: Bluetooth vs. WiFi: Why it's NOT a death match

Confused by the various wireless options out there? This CNET article does a good job of clarifying what these two different technologies do, and why they are both likely to survive into the furture