The new Nyxem-D worm making the rounds has been dubbed the “Kama Sutra worm”, because it arrives in an email offering graphic sex images and videos. Also called Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi, W32.Blackmal.E@mm worm, or W32/Nyxem-D, the email has such enticing subjects as “Kama Sutra pics!”, “Hot Movies”, “give me a kiss”, Miss Lebanon 2006″, “Part 1 of 6 Video clip”, “The Best Videoclip Ever”, “Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg”, “Fw: SeX.mpg”, “Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!”, and “School girl fantasies gone bad.”

Rumours of an Intel based Mac have been flying for months. Now the “Mactel” MacBook Pro (nee PowerBook) and iMac are here, and, somebody has to say it: So what? Why should we care about Mactel? Do we really care if we have Intel inside, even if “For years it’s been trapped inside ordinary PCs. Doomed to performing dull little tasks”?

The recently discovered Windows Metafile (WMF stands for “Windows Meta File”) vulnerability gave rise to not just one 0-day exploit, but several exploits. Also known as a “zero-day exploit”, a 0day exploit is an exploit which is already available on the same day, or even before, the vulnerability itself is announced.

Auction giant eBay has taken a stand against the thousands of auctions involving pirated copies of Microsoft software which regularly appear on its pages.

Microsoft this week issued a critical and cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (IE). They recommend that you apply the security update immediately, and so do I.

Spybot Search Destroy for Windows XP is a free anti-spyware program for Windows XP (and other Windows versions) which comes very highly recommended.

The 0x800a0007 Windows update error has pinched a lot of people. Here’s what causes it, and what to do about it.

iTunes Video, also known as iTunes 6, offers videos and television shows for downloading and playing on your PC or Mac, as well as on your snazzy new video iPod.

Microsoft Windows Updates for this month include three that are deemed critical by Microsoft itself, along with four that they say are “important”, and two which are moderate.

Microsoft Client Protection is a new security product from Microsoft aimed specifically at IT professionals dealing with enterprise networks.

An Internet Explorer download should be a relatively straight-forward matter, and it is, if you know where and how to do it.

Internet Explorer, and specifically improperly patched versions of Internet Explorer, are being implicated as the weak link which allows extortionists to lock files on your hard drive and demand $200 to unlock them.

If you get an anonymous online postcard in your email, don’t follow the link! It’s really Dloader-UT and Dumaro-S come a’knockin’.

The BagleDI-U trojan is showing up in a lot of places this week. Being called Bagle.cd or Bagle.da, and hidden in an attached file called either “price_new.zip”, “price2.zip” or “09_price.zip”, it’s turning up all over the place.

Mepe.A is an instant messaging worm which says “te mandaron un recado conmigo” (I’ve been asked to give you a message), but which really gives you an infection instead.