More than one-third of IT service managers describe the relationship with their IT vendors as “Thelma and Louise” - or best friends - according to a survey of attendees at last month’s IT Service Management Forum Australia held in Melbourne.

Usually all the Internet gossip is about a naked Paris Hilton, but for once it is the family business that is busting out and making the headlines online.

Facebook worms are, sadly, not that uncommon. However, they do all tend to share a common tactic of using a non-existent video requiring a Trojan disguised as a new codec download to work. Now one enterprising scumbag is using Google to leverage trust amongst Facebook victims.

You can never see enough of Paris Hilton. That seems to be the message that the Internet is telling us this week as the IT girl and occasional porn star keeps the web buzzing this week.

You can rely on Paris Hilton getting you into trouble online, just as you can be sure that much of the awesome power of Google is being used to search for porn. Or can you? 

As if US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama didn't have enough to worry about, what with the lipstick on a pig debate and all, it now seems he has to contend with being labelled as a wannabe porn star and lined up alongside a naked Paris Hilton for good measure...

So, given the choice, which Web video would you rather watch? A swimsuit-clad Paris Hilton insisting she would make a great President of the USA or a totally naked Paris Hilton not putting the world to rights? Thankfully, the web audience seems to be flocking to the right Paris...

The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?