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Macintosh vs. Windows Comparison

Posted in Macintosh | Windows | Security | Spyware by kevin on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 10:48am

This is the beginning of a series comparing the Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

 

 See what Computer World has to say.

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About Security Update 2005-009

Posted in Macintosh | Spyware by kevin on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 8:48pm

Apple Security Update 2005-009

This was released recently and is a very important security update for a number of vulnerabilites, most noticably:

  1. Apache2
  2. apache_mod_ssl
  3. CoreFoundation
  4. curl
  5. iodbcadmintool
  6. OpenSSL
  7. passwordserver
  8. Safari
  9. sudo
  10. syslog

Thankfully, fixing this is a matter of going to the "Apple Menu then "Software Update..." and agreeing to all of its install suggestions.

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Welcome to Windows Live

Posted in Windows | Spyware by kevin on Thu, 12/01/2005 - 5:25pm

Here is what Microsoft has to say about their new all in one security software offering.  We will have more to report on this shortly.

 The original can be found by clicking here.

Some links discussing it:

  1. Information Week
  2. Slashdot
  3. The Register

 

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What is Spyware

Posted in Spyware by kevin on Wed, 11/23/2005 - 1:27pm

The first question that we need to ask is, What is spyware?  Wikipedia offers one of the best descriptions: "Spyware covers a broad category of malicious software designed to intercept or take partial control of a computer's operation without the informed consent of that machine's owner or legitimate user. While the term taken literally suggests software that surreptitiously monitors the user, it has come to refer more broadly to software that subverts the computer's operation for the benefit of a third party."

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