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Published on: 1/13/2001
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Bruce Walton, UK managing director of antivirus firm Command, said Woolworths action would make sense if it had reason to believe it might come under attack by "capable" virus authors in order to prevent the spread of anything serious.
"If Woolworths had intelligence that it might be targeted in this way than what it did was sensible, otherwise what it did was making something of a leap," said Walton, who added turning off email servers had ecommerce implications.
Early yesterday morning 600 bicyclists congregated around London's Marylebone station, where Woolworths is based, and Liverpool Street train station.This slow speed cycling ride to protest environmental concerns passed off peacefully but later May Day demonstrations turned violent as 3,000 anti-capitalist protestors faced off against police.
Many shops in London's Oxford Street, the focal point of protests, was closed for the day despite which there was damage to property and around 50 arrests were made.One protestor received serious head injuries.