Spammers, beware - organised criminals are positioning themselves to take a slice of your business.

Virus writing - once the sole province of hooligans - has edged itself into the arena of organised crime with viruses like Sobig-F that are capable of setting up a spam-sending proxy network.

For some reason I find the thought of Vinnie the Shark tap dancing on a recalcitrant spammer's knuckles endlessly amusing.

It's a fact, AOL Instant Messenger is about as good a product as AOL itself. Which is to say, not at all. DeadAIM is a nice little program that enhances AIM's *cough functionality and gives you more control over the little bugger.