ANTIVIRUS VENDORS AND SLEAZY PRESS RELEASES
The news from McAfee is alarming: a new virus can infect .JPG picture files; potentially no file type is safe to exchange in e-mail; maybe we should never share .JPGs by e-mail. Here’s the McAfee press release; here’s an example of the news coverage it generated...THE FBI, PROUD GUARDIANS OF OUR RIGHTS
Gotta love this story. In 2000, the FBI apparently used Carnivore electronic surveillance in an attempt to collect information on Osama bin Laden’s network. Unfortunately they screwed up and also collected a whole bunch of e-mails exchanged by “non-covered...VIRUSES REAL AND IMAGINARY
REAL: A particularly nasty new virus named “Klez” is making the rounds by e-mail. It has the usual characteristics: it arrives in a randomly-generated message from someone you know, with a file attachment that does nasty things when you click on it. This...PRIVACY: BANKS vs. MICROSOFT & AOL
A recent study discovered that almost half of you would trust banks to handle online wallets, but most people would not trust Microsoft or AOL to hold the same financial information. David Coursey’s column today takes a position that I find convincing –...KLEZ VIRUS
There’s yet another e-mail virus running around loose, the “Klez” worm. It’s finding a lot of unprotected systems, and causing the usual problems. Here’s an article about the virus. As always, think to yourself: are you running antivirus...