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Using Windows online is like surfing a virtual minefield

Windows is a Minefield on the Internet

I installed Windows onto a fresh Parallels partition. Spent five hours going to ABCNews, FoxNews, Facebook, Google, Netflix and YouTube.

I ran Norton and found 6 virus’, 512 tracking cookies and 3 attempts to access’ my computer from an unauthorized/malicious web site.

Why do Windows users put up with that?

July 2, 2008 Posted by dmtherob | Tech, internet | , , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Os X Finally has a serious Trojan Threat

The only way to be infected is to download and execute the file.
clipped from news.cnet.com

Mac OS X Trojan reported in the wild
On Thursday, security vendor SecureMac reported seeing new variants of AppleScript.THT Trojan horse in the wild affecting users of Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
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June 23, 2008 Posted by dmtherob | Tech, internet | , , , , , | No Comments Yet