● 12.02.09

●● Eye on Microsoft: “Protection Racket”, Lack of Security

Posted in Microsoft, Security, Steve Ballmer, Windows at 6:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: New Microsoft links of interest

• Will racket ware shift the client-server balance?

This is racket as in protection racket. You got a lot of nice data in there, shame if something should happen to it. And you’re always under threat, from viruses, from trojans, from programs that want to capture your PC and use it to shoot spam at people or click on ads, and just from general clutter, what I call desktop dust bunnies.A whole industry has risen to fight this menace. You can’t get away with just an anti-viral. You need a program that fights spyware and one that cleans your registry, too.

• Anti-spammers urged to gang up

In a comparative test, almost 200,000 sample emails were sent to 14 different anti-spam products that were required to filter out spam messages from legitimate smails (ham). The test found that no legitimate mail was blocked by more than four products.

• Steve Ballmer Rendered in BSODs

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