The biggest news in the tech press this week is the acquisition of VoIP service Skype by Microsoft for 8.5 billion dollars. There’s been plenty of speculation about what they plan to do with it:

More home computer users today are aware of the risks inherent in being connected to the Internet, and installing antivirus software to help protect their systems. But what should you do if you receive an alert, notifying you that a suspected virus has been found? This article from the SANS Institute provides some information on how to determine the severity of an alert and how to respond to it.

Some of the most damaging worms (including Stuxnet) have used the AutoRun feature in Windows to infect computers, and according to Panda Software's report last summer, fully a quarter of all worms use USB drives to propagate, taking advantage of AutoRun and AutoPlay.