InterNetWorkingSolutions Support Site - Spyware

Macintosh vs. Windows Comparison

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:48:56 -0700

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

See what Computer World has to say.

About Security Update 2005-009

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:48:39 -0700

Apple Security Update 2005-009

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

Apache2
apache_mod_ssl
CoreFoundation
curl
iodbcadmintool
OpenSSL
passwordserver
Safari
sudo
syslog

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

Welcome to Windows Live

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:25:28 -0700

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:

What is Spyware

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:27:02 -0700

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."