2007 March

Malware authors still haven’t started targeting the Mac OS, Marius van Oers explained in a post on the McAfee computer security research blog.
Today we know of over 236,000 malicious malware items. These are mostly meant for the MS-Windows environment. Only about 700 are meant for the various Unix/Linux distributions. Current known Mac OSX malware count [...]

Backing up your music directly from your iPod is less than the ideal way to get a copy of all your music but sometimes you just don’t have a choice.
The following applications can copy your music off your iPod and properly name the files.

CopyPod for Windows

iPod Access for Windows

iPod Access for Mac [...]

Security company Kaspersky claims Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) is so annoying that users will disable it.
UAC is Vista’s system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users’ administrative rights.
“Windows Vista with UAC disabled will be less secure than XP SP2,” said Kaspersky, speaking to ZDNet UK at the CeBIT 2007 show in [...]

Mondo Armando and Müstaschio say they will disclose multiple security vulnerabilities in MySpace.com every day next month.
“The purpose of the exercise is not so much to expose Myspace as a hive of spam and villainy (since everyone knows that already), but to highlight the monoculture-style danger of extremely popular websites populated by users of various levels [...]

The IRS recommends that you make a photocopy of your tax return before you send it in, if not filing electronically, but you should be careful where you do this.
Many newer model copy machines have hard drives or memory storage that retains a copy of all duplicates made.
At issue are the hard drives embedded in [...]

There are new reports of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that allows hackers to trick users into visiting malicious copies of sites they normally visit, like online banking sites and shops, while still displaying the address of the legitimate site . Once on these sites, the users could be encouraged to enter [...]

A simple change to Vista’s registry can postpone activation by at least a year, perhaps indefinitely, reports Computer World.
Microsoft declares it a “hack,” while the well known, Windows researcher and expert, Brian Livingston calls it “a documented feature.”
No matter what you call it, it shouldn’t be used to pirate Vista. Only to postpone activation [...]

Earlier today E! was reporting that the critically acclaimed TV series Veronica Mars was canceled by the CW. Now the E! story has been updated and it seems the show might be back for a fourth season but will fast forward into the future and feature Veronica as an FBI agent.
If Veronica Mars was [...]

Oops, did you accidentally add a misspelled word to Firefox’s spell check? Don’t fret. You can remove it.

1. Open your application data folder. On XP or Vista, go to your Start menu and hit Run (or just press Windows-R) and paste in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles; on your Mac, navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles.
2. Find your profile folder, which [...]

TUAW has posted a quick how to guide for adding lyrics to your music library in iTunes and how to also display them on your iPod.
The article recommends using Google to find the song lyrics and copying and pasting them manually into each song but there are several scripts and programs that can do this [...]