October 12, 2004

Botched maintenance - not worm - blamed for MS IM glitch The Register -MSN Messenger, Microsoft's instant message service, is back up and running this morning after a routine maintenance operation went wrong, rendering the service sporadically unavailable for three days. 5:52:34 AM

FTC sues alleged spyware distributors Cool Tech Zone - The US Federal Trade Commission filed a legal complaint last week against two companies that are believed to have infected computers with spyware and pop-up advertising and then attempted to sell their owners’ anti-spyware software. 5:50:20 AM