Windows Server 2003 R2

By Oliver Rist
Ready or not, Windows Server 2003 R2 is coming2005 will be the year of OS confusion

Nothing's ever easy. Microsoft has extended clemency for those few holdouts still purring along with Windows NT 4.0. According to the company, they'll cease free support for the aging OS by the first of the year, but you can still get custom support for a little extra holiday moolah.

Sophos spam survey

Researchers at Sophos scanned all spam messages received at its global network of 'honeypots' - a system developed by network security firms to track illegal activities on the Internet - throughout 2004.

The top of the list was the United States, which was responsible for exporting 42.11 per cent of all spam. South Korea followed with 13.43 per cent of spam originations, China with 8.44, Canada with 5.71, Brazil with 3.34, Japan with 2.57 and France with 1.37 percent. Other counties in the top twelve were Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan and Mexico.

The Sophos report said: 'When we first reported on the top spamming countries back in February 2004, the USA had the excuse that the Can-Spam Act had been in existence for a couple of months. Almost a year and millions of spam messages later, it is quite evident that that the CAN-SPAM legislation has made very little impact stopping spam.'" The US may get a lot of spam, but it sends out as well as described at the Earth Times. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/1009.html