Archive for July, 2005

Attention au Pomme Z !

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

De MacBidouille.com:

La fonction Pomme Z, qui permet d’annuler la dernière opération, a bien souvent sauvé la mise de personnes trop distraites. Pourtant il est au moins un cas où elle peut au contraire poser des problèmes.

Un de nos lecteurs, Laurent, a copié depuis une clé USB des données sur son ordinateur, avant d’éjecter sa [...]

Thurrott on spyware: ‘we should have paid more attention to those Apple Switcher ads after all’

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Posted on MacDailyNews on Friday, July 08, 2005 – 02:22 PM EST 

Internet users are finally starting to succumb to the devastating effects of this malicious new brand of malware and are altering their online habits accordingly. According to a report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 91 percent of Internet users have been [...]

Microsoft sells out anti-spyware Windows users, downgrades Claria Gator to ‘ignore’

Friday, July 8th, 2005

Found at MacDailyNews

Thursday, July 07, 2005

“Microsoft’s Windows AntiSpyware application is no longer flagging adware products from Claria Corp. as a threat to PC users. Less than a week after published reports of acquisition talks between Microsoft Corp. and the Redwood City, Calif.-based distributor of the controversial Gator ad-serving software, security researchers have discovered [...]