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Microsoft Security Essentials Scores Failing Grade

Tom Wyrick — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:09:37 +0000

With all the malware and virus threats primarily targeting the Microsoft Windows platform, it’s almost a requirement to install some type of anti-virus software. Microsoft even goes so far as to offer a free download of its own product, Microsoft Security Essentials, if the Microsoft Update service detects another product hasn’t been installed first. Unfortunately, […]

No Internet In July Seems Largely A Lie

Tom Wyrick — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:39:01 +0000

Now that the July 9 deadline has come and gone, it appears few experienced a loss of their internet connection after all. According to the FBI (who shut down its temporary replacement DNS servers at 12:01 AM on Monday, as expected), only about 41,800 infected computers were accessing them from the United States as of […]

No Internet In July, Warns FBI

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:00:15 +0000

The FBI warns that nearly a half million internet users will lose their access on July 9 if they don’t take steps to remove a virus on their computers first. Capable of infecting both Macs and Windows PCs, the virus in question is a trojan horse called DNS Changer. A variant, often referred to as […]

This Shouldn’t Be A Surprise: Even Macs Can Get Viruses

M. Gilden — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:50:41 +0000

I try to distance myself from the whole Mac versus PC debate. They are both extremely capable and wonderful machines, and I’ve spent enough time owning and working with both to know they each have their strengths and weaknesses. But you know that misconception people have about Macs being somehow immune to viruses and malware? That bothers […]

Human Becomes Walking Computer Virus

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:45:39 +0000

British researcher Mark Gasson became the first person to infect himself with a computer virus and spread the infection to a machine, in the name of science. To be fair, this isn’t a case of human flesh actually contracting a virus made of software code. The Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading pulled […]

Yes Virginia, There Are MacOS Viruses

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:04:22 +0000

There’s been a lot of recent talk about the virus MacDefender, a bit of clever Malware for MacOS that depends on the user installing it. There was a lot of “See, we told you so” from the pundits who have warned for ages that the wider adoption of MacOS would make it a bigger target […]