This week we're going to continue our discussion with Chris Bequeath and learn more about the malware removal business. Part 2 of a three part series.

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Recently I was invited to attended The Virus Hunters Workshop, an all day event sponsored by Kaspersky Labs. The Virus Hunters Workshop will also be hosted in Reston, VA and Boston, MA. Registration is closed for Reston but if you are in the Boston area you may be able to register for that event scheduled for June 24 and 25, 2008. You can register at www.virus-hunters.com.

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Mozilla reported 8.3 million downloads of Firefox 3 on Firefox Download Day 2008, held June 17. The Force Field held a launch party of its own. A page and forum was created at TheForceField.net to download and discuss the new browser at the time of launch.

System Management News, a publication for IT System Administrators and Data Center Managers, predicts a cloudy future for computing, as in cloud computing. Can IT service providers incorporate it in their businesses? If so, what are the possibilities? Good questions. At any rate, this is something to consider or at least to watch.
You can read the feature in the June 15 issue of System Management News. A single issue of System Management News is $9.95 but a subscription is free to professionals who qualify. if you are an IT professional and would like a free subscription to System Management News you can subscribe at http://theforcefield.tradepub.com/free/smns or simply click on the link in the show notes in the RSS feed for this episode.

Bill Gates is finally leaving Microsoft. Or is he? Gates initially announced his retirement in 2006 and has since spent much of it telling everyone he's officially gone. But will he really be gone?

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This week we are going to continue our discussion with Chris Bequeath, owner of Business Network Solutions learn more about the malware removal business. We will learn about some of the organizations involved in the detection and removal of badware, the tools and techniques he uses to remove it and find out where he thinks the malware problem is heading in the next few years - not only as a nuisance but a possibly a national security issue as well. Part 2 of a three part series.

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