I received an email the other day that was a very good spoof and knock-off email that’s entire purpose was for phishing and dropping off a trojan horse application in its payload. The question is whether or not you’re paying attention close enough to have seen it.

Outlook 2007 does a good job of letting you know when you receive emails that look suspicious. Here’s a couple of things I immediately look for in a seemingly weird or unexpected email.
1.) Is there an attachment? Anytime I receive an email with an attachment I’m always leery of the file. Even if it’s …read more

I must be completely out of touch with computers. Apparently I have absolutely no clue about the big Conficker virus that’s been all over the news. I’ve seen it in headlines, but I never really heard many details about it so I didn’t even know it was a virus I needed to worry about until yesterday.
The question is did I need to be worried?
Conficker.C began using a new algorithm on Wednesday to look for instructions from its creator, prompting speculation that it might be readying for an attack. According to security experts, however, the worm has been quiet so far.
Am …read more

According to this story posted on Yahoo, a new trojan has found it’s way to the Mac OS. This trojan is embedded in some pirated/cracked software that can be found on BitTorrent sites. Specific software mentioned were iWork09 and Adobe CS4.
The iServices.A Trojan horse is found in pirated copies of the said software. Once it’s installed it connects to remote servers. The trojan also allows the creator to take control of your Mac.
Intego, a Mac security software firm estimates that roughly 20,000 machines have been infected as of January 21, 2009. As a precaution users are asked not …read more

There was hoopla recently that Apple recommended that users install antivirus software on their Macs. This prompted a lot of speculation that the Mac OS was getting less and less secure. This was proven to be false and that the recommendation was done long ago.
Still the question still begs to be asked, “do you need antivirus software on your Mac?”. Macworld has a good article published recently on that. Make sure to read through the comments as well to get both sides.
The article discusses the differences between a virus, trojan, spyware, etc…
Honestly I don’t use any antivirus software …read more