The much hyped built-in malware protection into Apple’s Snow Leopard upgrade appears to be nothing more than a XProtect.plist file containing five signatures for two of the most popular Mac OS X trojans – OSX.RSPlug and OSX.Iservice. Intego, the company that originally reported the new feature, has…
Here are todayââ?¬â?¢s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNETââ?¬â?¢s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image files About the Mac OS X v10.5.8 Update …
Here are todayââ?¬â?¢s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNETââ?¬â?¢s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google’s 5% stake worth $283 million Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: European…
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Google Voice only gets better with launch of mobile app Larry Dignan: Dumb wireless pipe wars: Google…
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 Even though it was retracted, I do think that Apple priming Mac users for the eventuality of widespread malware is a good idea.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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