It depends on how many hosts are infected. At the moment it's just sitting there quietly, and we won't know how many home users have been infected until 3 February.

The subject lines may contain some references to pornography -- fairly typical stuff.

The knock-on effects will come as compromised PCs try to communicate with businesses. This will cause additional email and network traffic, and possible slow down e-mail response time.

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

As we know, there are still problems with the labor regulations, tax laws, infrastructure and red-tape bureaucracy.

The year 2006 is not going to be the year we had hoped it to be last year.