Substantial decrease in pricing of major Moscow Internet providers just occured.  Home users may get online via Corbina, for example, as quick as 12.5 Mbit for 24 €/month (traffic unlimited) or browse at a maximum 100 Mbit speed for 18 €/mo (22 Gigabytes traffic).

Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools.
The survey calls into question Microsoft’s oft-cited claims that Vista is its most secure operating system.
Recent research based on malware scans of more than 1.4m PCs running PC Tools’ ThreatFire security technology over a period of six months turned up 639 threats per 1,000 PCs running Windows Vista compared to 1,021 threats per 1,000 Win XP boxes and 586 for 1,000 machines running Windows …