By contrast, there were more than 97,000 known viruses aimed at Windows, although modern malware targets individual applications such as Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer. Malware writers also target widely-used applications such as Adobe’s Acrobat Reader, used to read PDF documents.
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Finally finished moving house on saturday, after i had taken all the items i didnt need from my flat back home to Nantwich. My new room in the new house is nice and cosy, although small i have managed to get alot of things into my room, hoping to only live here a year and next year be able to afford my own mortage for my own house which would be cool 
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Will get round to post some pictures of my room and digs soon. Also it is awesome to have the internet again in the house, i really dont know how i have managed without it for the past 8 month in my flat but i have, although i access it at work everyday so its no big thing i suppose.
Anyway tomorrow hand my keys back to my old place, and have the inventory checked and then i will be able to get my £600 bond back which will be very very nice 
Internet service providers are to keep records of emails and online phone calls under controversial new government regulations that come into force today.
ISPs will be legally obliged to store details of emails and internet telephony for 12 months as a potential tool to aid criminal investigations. Although the content of emails and calls will not be held, ISPs will be asked to record the date, time, duration and recipients of online communications.
The new regulations are contained in an EC directive on data retention that already applies to telecoms providers and is now being extended to ISPs.
The directive was conceived as a response to the London bombings of July 2005, following which the Council of the European Union highlighted “the need to adopt common measures on the retention of telecommunications data”.
“Knowing when someone sent an email or made an IP telephony call, and knowing who they emailed or called, is very revealing information – these regulations potentially put that information in the hands of a wide range of public bodies,” said Sam Parr, a lawyer specialising in communications at Baker & McKenzie.
All i can seeing this do is to expose and give a greater risk to privacy of peoples information, transactions and giving rise to a bigger big brother style way of Governments. And in the long term a threat to all civil liberties and rights on the Internet as a whole.
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