According to Symantec the data contained on a business laptop is worth, on average, $1 million !
Hmmm, I just don't believe it for a number of reasons:

The only basis for the figure is a poll of businesses rather than an impartial piece of research.
If the data was actually worth that much then companies would take better [...]

Wanna try out Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 preview for Windows XP SP2 (this is a preview of beta 2 and not beta 2, if you understand)?  Microsoft have just made it available for download .
Remember that you're playing with beta software so things might not work out right I've been able to successfully install [...]

Security Fix  has a very interesting article on ActiveX controls in Windows.  The best part is this:

Based on the dozens of computers he's scanned so far using his software, Smith estimates that the average Windows PC has about 5,000 ActiveX controls installed by various programs, five to 10 percent of which will be marked "safe [...]

Winamp suffers from a critical vulnerability that I talked about the other day.  Fortunately, Nullsoft have released Winamp 5.13  which fixes the issues with the media player.
If you don't want to upgrade then you can download a fixed DLL file from here .
Technorati Tags: Winamp, Nullsoft, Winamp 5.13

WindowsDevCenter.com have listed 10 NTFS performance hacks.  There's nothing there that's going to do you any harm but don't expect miracles. 
The two best hacks are:

Defragment regularly
Tun off indexing service

Check out the complete listing here .
Technorati Tags: NTFS, Defragment, indexing service

I'm interested in hearing from anyone who received an email in the past few days that contained the following content (this email contained a Trojan Troj/Stinx-Q - so be careful if you have it in your inbox and don't mess with the attachment!).
If you received one like this I'd appreciate it if you got in [...]