Bruce Schneier, the computer security equivalent of Chuck Norris, has some excellent points to make about anti-virus software.  Executive summary: anti-virus is not enough to keep you safe online (you still have to be careful), but it's free (if you use AVG or Avast's free version) and easy, and protects against a lot of bad stuff, so you have no excus...

Today marks the initial release of my new Linux utility, Photo Importer. I wrote it because i couldn't find a Linux image management utility whose import functions didn't require manual intervention. Photo Importer's goal is to provide reliable, hands-off import of media from digital cameras for Linux and the GNOME desktop. You can find out more info and download the software at its SourceForge.net and Freshmeat.net pages.

US-CERT is reporting yet another vulnerability in Flash, relating to privilege escalation. If you use Flash, best practice is to do it with a Firefox plugin like noscript, I for one am glad that Flash is not supported at all on 64-bit platforms. :-)