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There's no doubt that Apple Macs and Linux PCs are far less likely to suffer from virus infections or malware when compared to their Windows cousins, but there's also no doubt that newer technologies such as cross-platform scripting can lead to vulnerabilities across the board. Besides no-one wants to be blamed for passing on a virus infection as payload in
Regrettably, I don't get to see my folks as much as I'd like....there's 500-odd miles and a sea between us, so it was a rare pleasure for my parents to visit me over Christmas for a few days. After a day or so, my dad says to me, "Could you have a look at my laptop? Every now and then
This weekend I had to fix my dad's computer after it got a Scareware popup. This Scareware was rather different than anything I'd approached before; when the popup appeared asking him to purchase via credit card some bogus software to "fix" his viruses, it also locked up his programs so that nothing else would work. He couldn't open his virus
Whenever I want to feel fearful and depressed I usually visit one of the news websites. Earthquakes, murder, war, theft, snoops, kidnappers, recession, depression, corruption, and all other sorts of horrible news. When I read the news sites I'm reminded of how unsafe the world is. Soon I tire of the bad news and move on to investigate the net
Great debate at the end of the show and I have fun smacking both Microsoft and Apple around today with a lot of hot topics that you are going to want to hear my commentary on! Ohh and a Old School Intro! Sponsors: [Save 15% on any order of $20 or more at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Geek5 [Try GoToMeeting free
As many of you know that listen to my show you have been hearing me complain about the amount of Spam I have been getting. I have been looking all over the net for a solution and those that I found where either too expensive or they were made for people with small volumes of mail.
No that headline is not coming from me but hijacked from the BBC! I have been accused in the past of telling Mac users not to get to comfortable in not having to deal with Virus and Spyware threats. Seems I am not the only one to think that. [BBC] Disclaimer thus far Mac users have been pretty lucky thru