Has Osama Bin Laden been captured? Not yet. But you will be, if you're dumb enough to click on the link in the message. Ted Richardson shares his experience tracking down the culprit... with a little help from Alex Eckelberry, Paul Laudanski, Chris Gunn and Patrick Jordan. Gee. Sometimes it really does take a village.
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OSVDB says "No exception for Symantec," but...
Pushy sales clerks bull their way onto webtailer sites
Email-borne viruses down, while dumb IT bosses unleash mobiles
Microsoft swallows Winternals. Nooooooo!
The new Exchange Intelligent Message Filter guide is on the streets
2b19Disgruntled Yahoo! advertisers who were hoping for just compensation from the Pay-Per-Click fraud settlement may as well get over it. Here's the short version: Yahoo! names an insider to watch ad traffic, invites 3 advertisers a year to chat, promises to make an effort to come up with industry-wide standards, extends its fraud claim period, and gives you an advertising credit... if you can prove you were harmed. I almost forgot the best part. Your class action attorneys walk away with nearly five million bucks. D'oh!
When eBay's CEO Meg Whitman sends you a personal letter, it's only polite to respond... especially when it's about one of her pet crusades: Net Neutrality. Unfortunately, I discovered that her mail server could send mail, but appeared to be incapable of accepting replies. "Must be a DNS goof-up," thought I. So I posted my personal reply right here. Please don't read it if you are not Meg Whitman. It's personal.
After a year of testing, French virus experts have concluded that Microsoft Office is less dangerous than its competitor, OpenOffice. In the short term, this is great news for Microsoft... outside of Europe. More anti-open source FUD will delay some planned migrations. Longer term, OpenOffice will benefit, as France and Germany pour resources into securing the product they now rely upon. The race is, as they say, afoot.
The CEO of authentication authority, Comodo, claims that over half of all desktops have been hijacked for use as zombies. Melih Abdulhayoglu says the solution can be found by running the right kind of personal firewall; the kind that blocks suspicious activity before it hits your anti-virus and anti-spyware software. Although he doesn't mention it, you can bet Abdulhayoglu's preferred solution just won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice.
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