COMPUTERS suffer more sick days than humans due to the flood of spam emails and viruses they have to endure.
Research by Yahoo Mail (www.yahooantispam04.com) for their anti-spam campaign shows that computers can be out of action for six days a year.
This time is spent cleaning machines of malicious files and spam messages that clog up networks and stop people working.
And computer users are getting increasingly frustrated with the work involved with trawling through useless messages as 42 per cent consider it more stressful than driving to work.
Yahoo Mail is aiming to raise awareness of the problem and ensure people can use their computers in peace.
THE Wayne Rooney phenomenon has spread to the internet as people register domain names connected to the England star.
Since the start of the European Championships websites based around Rooney's name have sprung up, with a dozen registered recently.
But he is well behind the star of footballers on the web as people have registered over 100 domain names in various permutations connected to David Beckham.
USING a camera and website (www.undercity.org), one New Yorker has laid bare parts of the city many people did not even know existed. Photographer Steve Duncan goes into the sewers and along the underground train tracks to offer some amazing pictures and insights.
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