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A lot of sites are reporting on the fake anti-virus package “Anti-Virus 2009″, which snookers innocent users in by planting the very malware it pretends to delete.

This has apparently infected over 400,000 computers now, and I can say that I’ve made that number 399,999.

The quickest way you can stop it in its tracks is to block the following domain, either at your router, or by editing your HOSTS file (in the c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc directory.)

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A week after claiming they were done pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft has again made an offer. This time around, it’s so preposterously one-sided that Yahoo would be twice the fool to take it as they’d have been to accept Microsoft’s truncated stock-price offer the last time around. [link]

But that’s not what it’s really about, and everyone knows it. What it’s really about is taking advantage of Carl Icahn lurking as a stalking horse; the barbarian at the gate. What it’s really about is bringing Yahoo to terms on Microsoft’s original offer. Continue reading…