Security Firm Sees Alarming Rise in ‘Transient’ Threats
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- Security Firm Sees Alarming Rise in ‘Transient’ Threats
- Millions of PC infected over Windows
- Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
- Nothing but Netbook: Six Low-Priced Fast-Selling Laptops
Security Firm Sees Alarming Rise in ‘Transient’ Threats
PC World
Along with anti-virus software there are many other things you can do to reduce threats to your computer. PC World contributor Andrew Brandt outlines many of them in his report.
Millions of PC infected over Windows
Ecommerce Journal MA
The experts think that this is the first phase of a multistage attack. The leading computer security representatives still do not know who launched the infection or what the further stage will be. Known as Conficker or Downadup it is spread by a newly discovered Microsoft Windows weakness by revealing network passwords and by hand-carried consumer gadgets like USB keys. Worms as Conficker not only penetrate around the Internet at high speed they also connect infected computers into united systems named botnets which can admit then programming instructions from their secret masters.
Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
PC Magazine
In those days you got text with a text graphics card and bare-bones color graphics with a CGA adapter and I thought it was the height of cool that I could play Microsoft Flight Simulator during downtime. I was so smitten with the new tech that when the ill-fated PCjr came out I almost convinced my parents to get us one. Soon after that my buddy John showed me an article in Creative Computing magazine about an upcoming computer called Macintosh from the company that produced our “ancient” Apple II computers. I didn’t think much about it since Apple was obviously yesterday’s news and the future of the PC was all in IBM’s hands. Apple II was a dying closed-off system while the IBM PC was the system that both businesses and consumers thought of when they thought of computers. Then I got a summer job at a local Computer Depot and consequently got some hands-on time with the Macintosh. The first-generation 128K Mac was underpowered to be sure but the new graphics interface sure beat having to type DS commands just to get to the word processor and modem terminal program.
Nothing but Netbook: Six Low-Priced Fast-Selling Laptops
FXNews
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