Tech.Blorge is reporting on a Sophos study that has the U.S. firmly on top of the spam producers list. The good news is although still topping the list, output is down. The UK dropped out of the top 10 (to #13). According to the study the US sends 19.8% of the spam with #2 China [...] Read more »
News Report: Microsoft OneCare Flunks Virus Test
Beta News is reporting that Microsoft acknowledged that their Microsoft Onecare product flunked the Anti-virus tests given by the Virus Bulletin in February. From the article… “We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests,” the Microsoft spokesperson told us, “and, [...] Read more »
Annoying Antivirus Software
PC World had an article titled “The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products“. At number 4 (voted by the readers) are McAfee Internet Security and Symantec Norton Internet Security. From the article… Norton and McAfee are constantly prompting us to check our security settings, update our subscriptions, and/or buy more products. Given that most new PCs [...] Read more »
Viruses, Spam and Software Updates
Another week has gone by. It being tax time and all (yea I waited) I didn’t have time to put together any additional articles but I do have some news stories and software updates that caught my eye. Rather than a lot of small posts, or ignoring them completely, I decided to summarize them here. [...] Read more »
Grisoft AVG Releases Free Anti-Rootkit
Grisoft is offerring a free anti-rootkit scanner. The scanner was easy to install and run despite not having any documentation. The program does promote their paid anti-virus software of course but it’s not obnoxious and there’s no disabled features in this version that points you to the full version. Read more »