Week in review: Changes at the helm
The News Review:
- Week in review: Changes at the helm
- I nce Was Chic but Now I’m Cheap
- PC Makers Don’t See Sales Spark From Microsoft’s Windows 7
- Removing malware from an infected PC – battling antivirus programs
- Security Fix Blogger
- It’s time to start issuing PC licenses
Week in review: Changes at the helm
CNET News CA
The software sector by contrast is expected to suffer less with spending anticipated to come in at $388 billion roughly the same level as last year. Meanwhile after several years of seemingly tireless 15 percent quarterly growth the PC industry hit a wall at the end of 2008. html” >verall PC shipments worldwide dropped 0. 3 million units during the fourth quarter according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker study.
I nce Was Chic but Now I’m Cheap
Wall Street Journal
Since then we’ve often giggled delightedly at the commercials portraying a PC as a hapless fat guy in a suit. A Mac after all is “the computer for the rest of us” as Apple’s ads used to say. We own five Macs along with iPods and other Apple paraphernalia. But recently when we needed a new computer we ended up buying a PC running Microsoft Vista. The reason is simple: Macs nowadays are computers for the rich.
PC Makers Don’t See Sales Spark From Microsoft’s Windows 7
CNNMoney.com
’s (MSFT) new Windows 7 operating system software to provide muchof a sales spark when it debuts later this year an influential investmentanalyst says. Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes during a conference call Monday saidnone of the computer makers with which he met at the recent Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas cited Windows 7 as a potential sales driver even thoughcomputer makers that adopt the software can add features such as touch screensor prolonged battery life. PC makers aren’t holding out much hope because they “feel burned by Vista”the operating system software that Microsoft started selling in early 2007Reitzes said. perating systems command and control key computer functions. Thelaunch of Vista was marred by a largely negative critical reception. Althoughmany critics say the operating system has improved many corporate buyers haveheld off on installing the system preferring to remain with its predecessorWindows XP.
Removing malware from an infected PC – battling antivirus programs
Computerworld MA
The paid version runs constantly in the background and prevents malware infections. I started using MBAM only recently and not being a lab had no way to judge its effectiveness. But I ran across an obviously malicious file while working on another infected computer recently and sent the file to VirusTotal where not one of the antivirus programs flagged it as bad. But MBAM knew it was malicioius. Back to the computer in question I downloaded the latest version of MBAM on another machine and then installed it in the infected machine using a USB flash drive. The reason for the flash drive was that I was afraid to connect the infected computer to my LAN until it had been at least somewhat cleaned up.
Security Fix Blogger
Washington Post United States
But these days the bot malware is written by such professionals that it is unlikely to cause the average user to notice anything awry unless perhaps they are using an older PC or perhaps the bot software tries to limit the sites the user can go to. That is why I spend so much time on this blog trying to impart the idea of keeping your system secure since it’s far easier to prevent a PC from becoming a bot than it is diagnosing a bot infection or cleaning one up after the fact. The best way to keep your system secure?-Download program updates only from the maker’s Web site (this includes but is not limited to browser plug-ins and things like Adobe reader and Flash Player)-Never open attachments sent in emails you were not expecting. -Be extremely judicious about the software you chose to install on your system.
It’s time to start issuing PC licenses
Computerworld MA
Amazing isn’t it? n the Linux side we have a college student who was unable to manage even the basics of PC 101. She couldn’t get an Internet connection up or open a word processor. What both these cases have in common is that in 2008 we still have tens of millions of PC users who can master even the basics of using a computer. So my modest suggestion is it’s time to start licensing computer users. If you can’t show that you’re able to at least update your computer and use its software’s basic functions you’re not allowed to play on the Internet. Idiotic Windows users are costing everyone who uses the Internet time trouble and money by enabling it to be flooded with malware and spam.
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