In malware news today, Computerworld is reporting that Microsoft took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel. Its malware scanner cleaned more than 500k PCs infected with the bot in ‘07

You can read this to mean the hackers squeezed out as much money as possible from Storm and are working on v2.

In other related malware/adware news:

- Some users may like adware

- China continues to face severe botnet problem

Your mesh is turned on. It’s kinda like Foldershare on steroids.

- Live Mesh Technology Preview: First Look

- Channel9 video interview of Mesh w/ Ray Ozzie

- Video Demo

The figures at DistroWatch.com indicate that Ubuntu’s popularity has soared and is dominating interest in recent months, also appears about to take overall lead for a 12 month period.

Here’s the facts and figures.

Cool, this is this first I’ve heard of ’self healing NTFS’.

Link to the MSDN blog article explanation.

FruitfulTime is a site where you can learn how to make yourself more productive in life and to make every second count. It also has released software (’FruitfulTime TaskManager’) and an ebook (’Stop Procrastinating Now’).

The challenge with task management programs is that they are completely dependent on the user to stay on task, keep up with the workflow and not ’snooze’ the items for weeks on end like I sometimes tend to do.

They have a solution to that, and I honestly have to say it’s unique: FruitfulTime TaskManager Electro:

FruitfulTime TaskManager Electro takes to do list software to new high heights thanks to its innovative productivity enforcing feature.

Enforcing feature? Oh yeah!