Amazon has warned its customers that one of Samsung’s digital picture frames shipped to customers infected with a virus. While Samsung has some egg on its face, malware that ships on consumer hardware is not as serious of an issue as it may seem. Earlier this…
A good friend of mine from a university in north-west England got an email through from their network administrators at the end of last week, basically saying, “…every time you plug in your flash drive, we see it offloading a whole load of malicious files to the computer you’re…
From time to time, I’ll get absolutely inundated with an email, which naturally I’ll delete straight away. On the rare occasion I get something worth reading, I’ll flag it for a post like this. The reason we have TalkBack’s on ZDNet is not so we can harvest off your user…
From time to time, I’ll get absolutely inundated with an email, which naturally I’ll delete straight away. On the rare occasion I get something worth reading, I’ll flag it for a post like this. The reason we have TalkBack’s on ZDNet is not so we can harvest off your user…
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don’t make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael…
On November 21 the blogosphere was abuzz when Apple updated a technical note on its Support Web site that says Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult….
Eagle-eyed Elinor Mills, reporter at sister site CNET, has the scoop that Apple has removed the 2007 item from its support site late last night that urged Mac customers to use multiple antivirus utilities. Now, the company says the Mac is safe “out of the box.”(What say…
The knowledge base article on Apple’s support site which encouraged the widespread use of antivirus software on Mac systems has been removed, but the idea that Mac users might still benefit from protection still lives on. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
People seemed to get into a tizzy about Apple posting an announcement recommending Anti-Virus software for Macs. Even though it was retracted, I do think that Apple priming Mac users for the eventuality of widespread malware is a good idea. People who believe that the fundamental design of…
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking…
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