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Microsoft has posted their July Security Bulletin Advance Notification. July will contain six updates, with three marked at the maximum security of Critical.
The Critical patches are for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office/Microsoft Excel and .Net Framework. Two Important updates for Microsoft Office Publisher and Windows XP Professional and a Moderate update for Microsoft Windows Vista will [...]

An exploit in Microsoft Windows Update is allowing malicious hackers to use it to download additional viruses and trojan components on a computer that has already been infected.
The service being used bypasses firewalls and other security checks allowing the hacker to download and possibly even install rootkits and keyloggers without detection.
It has been reported that [...]

eWeek’s David Morgenstern had an interesting take on the state of the security of the Windows OS and Mac OS and why the Mac OS has many less security flaws than windows. He even went as far to say, “The Mac platform is more secure than Windows and will continue to be so.”
As part of [...]

Is it possible that my friend Chris Pirillo is finally admitting to himself that a move to Apple shouldn’t be out of the question?
Chris has been ranting about his problems with Vistafor weeks now. He has also been complaining about the state of Windows programs on a daily basis. But he resists whenever I or [...]

SANS is warning of a fake Microsoft Security Bulletin that is making the rounds by email.
The email claims to come from Microsoft and includes a link to what is supposed to be a patch for the issue however it is actually a malicious browser add-on (BHO.)
Always remember that you shouldn’t click on links or [...]

Microsoft has released their June Security Bulletin Advance Notification today. The June release cycle will contain six updates, four of which were rated a maximum severity rating of Critical.
The four Critical bulletins are for Windows, Internet Explorer, and Outlook Express. There will also be two non-critical bulletins for Visio and Windows as well [...]

If you been thinking about making the move to Vista because of safety improvements, think again. Computer World published a report last month that Malware will thrive on the operating system.
“Malware technology will evolve just like a business,” says Vlad Gorelik, chief technology officer at Sana Security. “There are definitely improved protections [in Vista] with [...]

Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook sales are making the PC notebook vendors very jealous and some are even panicking.
New research from NPD Group indicates that PC unit growth in April of 2007 rose 14 percent year-over-year, while notebook sales grew even faster — rising 30 percent over the same period. Apple, however still [...]

A known flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer’s handling of iframes allows the Gozi Trojan to sneak in systems and thanks to new packing messages it can evade detection from some anti-virus and anti-malware programs.
Gozi installs a keylogger and grabs sensitive data including bank account and credit card numbers, user names, passwords and Social Security numbers [...]

I’ve had my first Mac for just about a month now and I’m absolutely not missing Microsoft Windows in the slightest. However, I am missing some applications that are native to Windows.
I’m using the following programs in Parallels Desktop for Mac but I wish there were native Mac OS X versions of them so [...]