By Ingrid Marson, ZDNet (UK) Published on ZDNet News: January 2, 2006, 9:01 AM PT Bloggers around the world have been talking about the latest Firefox extension, even though it isn't yet available. AllPeers, a company based in the UK, has developed a peer-to-peer tool for the open source browser, which it claims is "the best thing to happen to Firefox...since Firefox." "AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform ...

A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog Tuesday. The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be downloaded from a Web site. Running the program installs not a new MSN Messenger beta, but rather a virus that sends download links to a computer user's MSN Messenger buddies. The virus falsely labels the link as "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA." It also ...