55 posts and columns on virus
Iran Responds to New “Stuxnet-Like” Cyber Attack
More, more cyber war.Do You Have Prince Albert in a Can?
As much as some critics would like to blame the warp-speed of the Web for their mistakes, the reality is that such hoaxes and their victims have long been with us. Fake press releases are like the viruses that infect vulnerable computer systems; until you fix the system, they’ll continue to work.
A PC Virus on a Mac
Walt answers a reader’s question on whether a MacBook running Parallels could get infected by a PC virus.Are Macs More Secure?
Walt answers a reader’s question on whether Macs are as vulnerable to viruses as PCs.Apple Fights Back Against Malware Attack
Apple is building software to detect and remove the Flashback malware that has turned 600,000-odd Macs into a trouble-making botnet.How to Find Out if Your Mac Is in the Infected 1 Percent
Kasperky Labs launches a Web-based tool to detect and remove the infamous Flashfake malware. Still no sign of the long-predicted security apocalypse on the Mac.What’s This? A Mac Virus? No, Actually It’s a Weakness in Java.
Chatter about a new Trojan affecting Macs fails to acknowledge where the real vulnerability lies: With Oracle’s Java and not Apple’s OS X itself.Mac Virus Panic!
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)Voices