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From noted antivirus test site av-comparatives.org: Best Antivirus Product of 2006 “When you combine the speed, accuracy and advanced heuristics capabilities of ESET’s solution, it is clearly the best performing AV product on the market today.” NOD32 also won the proactive on-demand detection, and highest on-demand scanning speed categories. Andreas Clementi, AV-Comparatives.org (December ’06) We [...]

From Alex Eckelberry’s Sunbelt Blog: Sentencing postponed in Julie Amero case This is such good news. The former Norwich substitute teacher convicted of exposing her seventh-grade students to Internet porn is getting extra time to bolster her defense team. Superior Court Judge Hillary Strackbein agreed Monday, court documents show, to postpone Friday’s sentencing for Julie [...]

From Network World: Vista bug forces legit users to reactivate OS A bug in Windows Vista’s built-in antipiracy technology is telling some users that they need to reactivate the operating system after they install new device drivers or run newly installed software.

From Dark Reading: Hospital Laptop Stolen; Info on 7,800 Patients at Risk Security cameras at the Seton Family of Hospitals office in Austin, Texas, show a thief carrying out a laptop and projector. Let’s see, we’ve had the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, the FBI, now hospitals.  All have had laptops stolen with confidential client or [...]

Posted at LockerGnome TechNews Watch: “The Most Secure Operating System Ever” Can’t Be Trusted. Ollie Whitehouse, an architect at Symantec’s advanced threats research team, found that Hackers can exploit Windows Vista’s User Account Control to hide malware, reports PC World. Windows Vista’s User Account Control (UAC), a system that Microsoft says makes the new operating [...]

Posted at LockerGnome Tech News Watch: The Julie Amero Trial Transcript There should be a ‘consumer warning’ on the Julie Amero trial transcripts. It is not good for your digestion – fair warning. The Norwich Bulletin has PDF files of the transcripts, with names of minors redacted. The article begins with the following statement: “The [...]

From InformationWeek.com Cell Phone Spammer Slammed With $200,000 Fine After a year-and-a-half-long legal battle, Verizon Wireless wins a permanent injunction against Specialized Programming and Marketing and its owner. Verizon Wireless has won a permanent injunction against a company that sent nearly 100,000 spam messages to cell phone users tempting them with a cruise to the [...]

Sounds like somebody was trying to win a Darwin Award! From CnetNews.com: Laptop use may have caused collision A California man whose car drifted into the opposing lane and caused a head-on collision may have been using his laptop at the time of the accident, according to reports. The victim, a 28-year-old computer tutor, was [...]

From Lorna Hutcheson posting at the Internet Storm Center: It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?, (Mon, Feb 26th) Some of you may or may not remember that question. It started in the 60s and was asked right before the nightly 10pm news. Many parents are now very aware of the need [...]

From Alex Eckelberry, CEO of Sunbelt Software.  He’s been very involved with arranging a proper forensic examination of the computer involved in the case, which it appears was never done. Apparently, while most people in the tech community are supportive of Amero, there are dissenters. Alex explains: You’ll recall the case of Julie Amero, the [...]

Via Flying Hamster: Survey: Wireless surfing on the rise About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday. The survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that 34 percent of Internet users have gone online [...]

Some questions answered about ongoing support for Windows XP SP2. From PC World, via Washington Post: XP’s Fate in a Vista World […] Does the release of Vista mean that Microsoft will cut off support for Windows XP, as it did for Windows 98 and other old OSs? Not immediately, no. But it’s a safe [...]

From Bruce Schneier’s blog: Windows for Warships No, really: The Type 45 destroyers now being launched will run Windows for Warships: and that’s not all. The attack submarine Torbay has been retrofitted with Microsoft-based command systems…  This is kind of frightening in a way.  It brings to mind this earlier post.  I can see the [...]

We carry CounterSpy here. CounterSpy V2 gets Checkmark certification CounterSpy V2 just got CheckMark certification.

A list of Windows Vista annoyances were published by two PC World editors on Yahoo! News: The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista There’s lots to like in the newest version of Windows. Vista’s look is stunning, the OS should be more secure, and finding things is often easier. But Windows wouldn’t be Windows without those [...]

You will recall from a previous post the story of the Connecticut teacher’s conviction for child endangerment for pop-up porn ads on a classroom computer.
This article comes from SecurityFocus:…

From security expert Bruce Schneier’s blog: Drive-By Pharming Sid Stamm, Zulfikar Ramzan, and Markus Jakobsson have developed a clever, and potentially devastating, attack against home routers. First, the attacker creates a web page containing a simple piece of malicious JavaScript code. When the page is viewed, the code makes a login attempt into the user’s [...]

From the Internet Storm Center: Firefox 2.0.0.2 released, (Fri, Feb 23rd) The Mozilla folks have released the long-awaited version 2.0.0.2 of Firefox. The second link below shows that 7 security issues were fixed. One rate critical. Bugs fixed appear to include CVE-2007-1004, CVE-2007-0995, CVE-2007-0981, CVE-2007-0800, CVE-2007-0780, CVE-2007-0779, CVE-2007-0778, CVE-2007-0777, CVE-2007-0776, CVE-2007-0775, CVE-2007-0008, and CVE-2007-0009, among [...]

From TechDirt: RIAA Makes Case For Why Parents Should Be Liable For File Sharing Of Kids Earlier this month, we pointed out that a judge had told the RIAA it needed to pay up for the legal fees for a woman it wrongly sued over unauthorized music sharing. Not surprisingly, the RIAA has asked the [...]

From LockerGnome Tech News Watch Windows Vista – Give It Some Time? Windows Vista has been compared to a cake that has not risen all the way yet. A great beginning for Windows improvement, but it still has a few things that need to be worked out before it’s ready to be “eaten.” I believe [...]