PandaLabs has issued warnings about the rapid propagation of two new members of the Spamta family: the Spamta.VK worm and the Spamtaload.DT trojan. Both spread together and have accounted for up to 80% of malware detections reported to PandaLabs per hour. The Spamta family has been extremely active over the last few months. When Spamta.VK infects
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Lycos Europe, one of the leading European portal providers and online advertisers, has agreed to sell its 30% stake in Seznam.cz, a.s, a portal provider based in Prague, Czech Republic, to partners Tiger Holding Four S.Ã .r.l and Miura International S.Ã .r.l. Both parties together will take over all of Lycos shares for a consideration of EUR
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The new Arabic version of France 24 is now available through the Hot Bird 8 broadcast satellite of Eutelsat Communciations. This new language version joins the French and English versions of France 24, the French international news channel, which are already available to cable and satellite homes across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
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The French magazine SVM has awarded its highest rating of five stars to NanoScan beta, Panda Software’s online scanner that can detect all active malware in computers in less than a minute. The magazine indicates that “Panda Software has gone for an original approach regarding virus detection, even unknown viruses, very close to the Web 2.0
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Cyprus bond yields were stable during the multiple bond auction held on March 29 with the major characteristic being the excess cash circulating in the market as the government received a total of CYP 561.62 mln bids for its bonds. The Central Bank, on behalf of the Finance Ministry eventually decided to accept CYP 328.20
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The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) have revised down Cyprus’ growth forecast for 2007 to 3.4% (from 3.6% previously) and to 3.6% in 2008 (from 3.8%), primarily owing to quarterly growth in the fourth quarter, which was slower than expected GDP growth is expected to average around 3.6% in 2007-11, with a slight acceleration in 2008-09,
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The Cypriot government is anticipating the comments of the EU Presidency and the Commission over the new measures to economically strengthen Turkish Cypriots.Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis said that the new measures, as well as the existing ones and any other proposed in the future to promote the economic integration through the economic upgrading of the
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The Health ministers of Cyprus and Greece pledged here Monday to strengthen relations between their health systems and to offer the best possible health services to the citizens of both countries.Cypriot Minister of Health Haris Charalambous and Greek Minister of Health and Social Solidarity Demetris Avraamopoulos signed on Monday a protocol which includes provisions for
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The Council of Ministers, under President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos, has approved the establishment of a special committee of experts to form a policy framework for the integration of legal immigrants into the Cypriot society.According to the decision, the committee will comprise representatives of departments and services of the Ministry of the Interior, which
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The Council of Ministers, under President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos, has approved draft legislation for Cyprus’ accession to the Madrid Convention and the additional protocols for trans-frontier cooperation between territorial communities or authorities and for trans-frontier cooperation between territorial communities or authorities concerning inter-territorial cooperation.The Cabinet has authorised the Minister of the Interior to
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