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Many lovers of Google Talk—a commonly used instant messaging client and procrastination method for students—received an unwelcome surprise yesterday as they were bombarded with messages propagated by an internet worm. The messages directed users to ViddyHo.com—which asked visitors to provide login information for their Google Talk accounts—through a TinyURL.com link. The worm then used that information to send replicas of the message to contacts listed on the newly-infected user’s Google Talk account. ViddyHo.com has been linked to Hoan Ton-That of San Francisco...
...sure I've ever met anybody more straight-laced...When I tried to fix him up with dates, I'd tell them, 'He's a really nice guy, but very serious. At the end of the night, though, if you ask him in for a cup of tea, that's all he's going to ask for.'" - Seattle teacher Carol Austin, on longtime friend Locke, The Seattle Times...
After she talked about Madoff's operations on a Fox News TV show in mid-January (as an investment adviser, Goldman knew of Madoff but did not do business with him,) Kotz's office contacted her to ask her about Madoff, she says. Kotz and his staff also asked her for any suggestions she might have to fix things at the commission...
Management at AIG has calculated exactly how much money the Treasury and Fed will have access to after all of the TARP, financial stimulus, and mortgage bailout projects have been funded. The insurance company then plans to ask for whatever is left to fund its deficits so that it can stay in business, effectively making the federal government insolvent...
...lynchpin of the government's effort to defuse the Taliban insurgency is Sufi Mohammed, a septuagenarian Islamist cleric whose Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law has returned to Swat with the backing of the authorities. "We will ask them to lay down their weapons," Mohammed says of the local Taliban. "We are hopeful that they won't turn us down." Mohammed's credibility with the militants is based on the fact that he waged his own violent campaign for Shari'a law in the area in the mid-1990s; he also fought alongside the Taliban when U.S. forces invaded...