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If yesterday we talked about how important it is to have your Mac OS X secure a good antivirus, Dr.Web Russian company today announced a Trojan that has affected more than 600,000 Apple computers worldwide. Named Flashback, this new security threat can be exploited to collect data from our computers via the Safari browser.
Gone is the golden age when the dependents of electronics stores as we sold the Mac computers that never get any viruses. According to the Russian supplier of antivirus Dr.Web, the figure rises to 600,000 infected computers. Over 56% of them in the U.S., 20% in Canada and 13% in the UK. Other countries have infection rates of less than 1 percent. Even more than 250 computers have been affected in Cupertino (California), city where the headquarters of Apple.
The variable with the technical name BackDoor.Flashback.39, exploits a vulnerability in Java 1.6.0_29 for installation on computers running Mac OS X and collect user information. Since September 2011 the Trojan moves through the Apple ecosystem in the form of fake Adobe Flash Player installer. This vulnerability is hosted by more than 4 billion web pages, including most with the domain name. Nu (assigned to the island state of Niue) TV and streaming servers as Gangstas paradise. Some reports even indicate that there have been cases of infection from the manufacturer’s website Dlink computer consumables.
With net books volumes expected for release this year, approximately 135 million computers, according to some analysts and the announcement of the first Android net book, announced by the Chinese manufacturer Sky tone Transmission Technologies, would be interesting to know what percentage of planned won Android net books later this year.
The Alpha 680, ARM processor-based low-cost, could be available for three months at a cost of approximately $ 250, said Nixon Wu, Sky tone co-founder. It is perhaps too early to predict the outcome of this gamble China factory and two emerging players in the world of portable PC: ARM processor and Android. The former has proven its efficiency in billions of phones and laptops can offer autonomy of days instead of hours.
Android, meanwhile is a variant of Linux that comes with a design from below, from the portable phone, which can impose new concepts in usability and user interface and thus imposed on Windows XP. Personally I think it’s a very interesting proposal can not pass unnoticed.
The good: The Patriot Pyro 2.5-inch SATA 3 (6Gbps) memory-based solid state drive (SSD) offers decent performance and functions in any application where other SATA hard drives are used.
The bad: The Patriot Memory Pyro is removed at random times when the computer wakes from sleep mode. The unit does not come with a drive bay to work with desktop computers, and data transfer rates could be some improvements.
The bottom line: The Patriot Memory SSD Pyro is a decent among their peers and improve your computer performance significantly when used as a spare hard drive.
Although some manufacturers like MSI claimed earlier this year that the rate of return of net books with Linux pre-installed was much higher than models with Windows XP, Dell has indicated that its triumph Linux net books on the market.
In fact according to the statements of its leaders, a third of sales of Dell Inspiring Mini 9 are the models with Linux preinstalled, the highest rate for all computers sold by Dell with Linux for quite some time, and superior to other manufacturers.
The success of Dell net books with Linux preinstalled seems obvious if we ignore the statements of Jay Pinkert, a Dell executive stated that “one third of our offer Mini 9 ships with Linux, which is clearly above the standard success rate of other systems that offer Linux. We have done a good job explaining to people what is Linux.