All the bad news from Microsoft appears to indicate the company has its share of problems. In fact, this has been a perfectly awful week for the house that Bill Gates built. First there’s the news that the consumer version of Windows Vista will miss its holiday shipping deadline, and won’t be out until 2007. […]

When you think of security, the threat of malware comes to mind. Whether you call it a virus, a Trojan Horse or a worm, you don’t want to have to confront the nasty thing. You may prefer to think of such problems as exclusive to the Windows platform, but the first computer virus actually appeared […]

Oh, that’s right, unless you believe what a very few might tell you, there is nothing to report about Mac malware. Despite some security leaks that Apple patched over the year, there were no official confirmations that any of those leaks were actually exploited. So we are left with a potential but not necessarily a […]

After first reading the results of the silly survey in Consumer Reports that showed that 20% of Mac users had encountered viruses, I began to wonder just what they were talking about. Surely the people who conducted that survey knew better, right? I am not willing to believe, at least for now, that it was […]