Colonel Gennady Alyokhin, a Russian military spokesman, said on Sunday that rebel fighters were building fortifications on strategic heights in Grozny's outskirts, planting mines in city streets, and installingmachine guns on roofs.
Thanks to a rural development grant under the European-funded Leader programme and technical assistance from the Department of Agriculture, he set about installing a wind machine in his most vulnerable orchard.
In several recent cases, hackers have infected hundreds of thousands of Web servers with software that performs "drive-by downloads" on any visitor's machine, installing password-stealing Trojans or turning the PC into a spam-spewing zombie.