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Tweet Mac Security: Antivirus Although Apple computers are not somehow magically immune to viruses and other malware, they’ve been remarkably free of such pests for most of their history. But does that mean you can ignore antivirus software? The Threat In 1982, the Elk Cloner virus spread among Apple IIs by copying itself to floppy [...]

Tweet Antivirus Superhero Comes to the Rescue Japan’s cheap and pervasive high-speed Internet connections are finally catching up with the country. It was recently placed sixth in a ranking of countries with infected PCs that launch denial of service and other attacks and some of the blame is being laid at the country’s broadband market, [...]

Tweet Microsoft renames its ‘D’ language ‘M’ Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with the Connected Systems Division (CSD) has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview (CTP) form at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). [...]

Tweet One Size Fits All Versus The Right Tool for the Job On Internetnews.com, Christopher Saunders asks if Linux is really necessary for the desktop. He relates a discussion he had with a creative/marketing executive recently, and the doubts that this executive has about the ability of open source alternatives to meet his company’s needs. [...]

Tweet Firefox adds location finding feature Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox web browser, has released geo-location technology that allows Firefox to detect the physical location of the computer it is running on. Called Geode, the programme maps out wireless internet signals in a specific area and shows the browser exactly where the computer is [...]