Flickr’s alleged More Better Desktop Uploader Version 3.1.3 — which when I tried to download hung up on 1.8mb (the file is supposed to be 14.7mb). I have DSL that is this fast according to speedtest.net:

and I get this from flickr:

I am perfectly happy with Version 3.0.5 even if it makes me enter my tags twice, once on the uploader and again when it opens my flickr account after the upload. But at least it worked when I wanted to upload photos to my accounts. Yes I have more than one Flickr account, one for every Yahoo email account I maintain. I am not ready to shell out US$24.95 a year as of yet, maybe later when I get my real camera and take real pictures.

This new version they’re touting doesn’t even download. Comments on the Flickr Help forum attest that there is something wrong with the server they put in on, and when you do get to download it, the older program is much better. Go on over to the forum and see for yourself.

Nope, I’m sticking to my 3.0.5. Even the jUploadr for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows works better.

This is one of the newer (although kinda stupid) virus spreaders I have seen this year. It sends a UPS notice to a random (in this case even non-existent) email address in your domain with an attachment of a virus disguised as an invoice to be printed out.

Thank goodness our company has invested on a security gateway called Borderware, which prevents malicious emails such as this from wreaking havoc on the network.

A common (and unfortunately, effective) technique for luring e-mail users into opening virus-launching attachments is to send messages that would appear to be relevant or important to many of their potential recipients. One way of accomplishing this feat is to make the virus-carrying messages appear to come from some type of business entity that many people commonly deal with, such as one of the large Internet auction or retailing sites, or a national bank (or other financial institution), or a major provider of a common service.
–Snopes.com

Rule is always to check the originating email address. In this case the sender is NOT UPS but “teld@grics.qc.ca”. That itself is a tell-tale sign that the email is fraudulent.