Archive for April 22nd, 2005

Beware the Super Cookies!

Posted in All Posts, Malware on April 22nd, 2005

Hey, this isn’t chocolate chip! This is more like PIE in you face. (We’ll explain that later.)

Really it is all our fault! At least according to a company named United Virtualities. You see, it turns out that far too many of us are deleting cookies from our computers. Yes, how dare us delete cookies that web sites install without permission. But hey, who’s computer and who’s privacy is is anyway? Read the rest of this Post »

XP Service Pack 2

Posted in All Posts, Email Security, Malware on April 22nd, 2005

The latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, Volume VII – March 2005 indicates that XP SP2 may have resulted in a dramatic reduction in the number of bot scanning incidents. Symantec reports that these incidents have dropped from 30,000 per day to only 5,000 per day. They attribute much of the decrease to improved security features in XP Service Pack 2.

So what’s in XP Service Pack 2 anyway? Here is a list of the fixes, patches, enhancements and updates provided by SP2.
SP2 List of Fixes

Hey! That’s a pretty long list!

We encourage all users to upgrade to SP2 if they have not done so already.

Actually, you don’t have much of a choice… Read the rest of this Post »

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