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Looking for something inside MAC-NET? Use the "Search? Me" box on the top right banner to help you hunt down documents scattered within this site. It's fast and easy! Just type in the words and click the "Go" button. Here is our short tutorial to help you get better search results. Popular searches performed on this site: Runtime; apphd; mac; log; hijack; dialer; ehtray; service pack; mobile; sasser; bagle; worm; trojan. Who are we? MAC-NET is a network technology solution provider for businesses and individuals with the focus on security. At MAC-NET, we work hard to get the Machines and Network to work for you! MAC-NET Internet Security News:17 June 2008 - New Guinness World Record was set for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With 8,002,530 (8 million+) downloads of Firefox 3 in 24 hours on FireFox 3.0 download day. 2.5 million of the Downloaders came from US, 300 thousand from UK, 250 thousand from Iran, 200 thousand from Canada, 120 thousand from Australia, 80 thousand from India, 35 thousand from Vietnam, 30 thousand from Singapore, 29 thousand from Malaysia, 28 thousand from Phlipplines, 27 thousand from Thailand and 20 thousand from Indonesia. I am glad to announce that majority, more than 50%, of the readers accessing this site are using Firefox. And only 30% were using Internet Explorer and another 10% using Safari. Compare that with 2006, where almost 65% were using Internet Explorer. Microsoft have released to the general public the much anticipated Windows XP SP3, about 4 years after they released XP SP2. 19 March 2008, Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP1 Update. This should a must do for all Microsoft Vista owner - key reasons: improve computer speed and reduce user frustration. Ok... with speed comes danger, Vista SP1 is not compatible with particular anti-virus programs, RDC cannot logon to my older Terminal Server, etc. Thankfully, it still works with AVG Antivirus Product Lines. On 1 March 2008, a pioneer in the Internet revolution fall silent - RIP Netscape. On 1 February 2008, French Police announced the retirement of Microsoft Windows from active duty and recruited Ubuntu Variant of Linux as their desktop operating system for their 100,000 employees. In 2005, they successfully switched from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice and in 2006 from Internet Explorer to FireFox. Interestingly, Microsoft's boss (Bill Gates) was in Paris when the news broke. 2008 might see mobile communication devices become the latest victim of thevirus. At stake is destruction of valuable data and experts say the viruses can worm their way into other devices or networks through infrared, Bluetooth or WAP. With the cellular phone providing net-enabled features like e-mail, instant messages, multimedia, browsing etc, virus writers who like attacking PCs are readying to upload viruses onto mobile phones. 2007 saw the number of new threats rise by 48%, the lingering W32/Netsky Worm is on top of the chart, followed by W32/Mytob, W32/Lovgate, W32/Bagle, and W32/Zafi. All of them continues to disrupt and clog networks worldwide. We were recently bitten by the SQL Snake - Sorry about that! This site starts to slow down last week and the last few hours, it almost unusable when a page took over 1 minute to display. Within a couple of hours, we were able to figure out the Snake was behind this mischief. By reconfiguring the IP Filtering and swapping the SQL Server to a new Port Number, it was back to its glorious self and frighten away any snakes. Meet the good and the bad, both 19 year old. Here are the 5 top flaws found in corporate networks. Here are some e-mail statistics for us to think about. According to Internet security firm. one in every 12 emails it scanned contained a virus designed to infect computers. The leap in virus attacks coincides with a big rise in the amount of spam mail being sent to computer users. Majority of the computer viruses do not rely on a specific Microsoft vulnerability but on simple social engineering. Remember to never open attached e-mail files without first saving them to the hard drive and scanning them for known viruses. Computer Viruses are major concern and virus exploits seem to keep just a step ahead of anti-virus technology so there is always a new one hitting the scene and wreaking havoc (some minor, some major) until the cure is developed - In the meantime, you can learn how to protect your computer from catching it. Spammers are now paying virus writers to create viruses that will use infected machines to relay spam. This is due to the processing power and anonymity that hijacked computers can provide to spammers. There is little or no money to be made from simply distributing viruses, but when you combine the capabilities of a virus and the profit that can be earned from spam, suddenly you have a more materialistic proposition. Phishing on the rise - Phishing, which has now occurred on every major English-speaking continent but was largely unheard of this time last year, has continued in earnest. A major e-mail outsource, detected this year has reached 2 million phishing related messages a month. Recent cyber security study estimated that 60% of computer users have not bothered to update their anti-virus software; 90% of computer users had spyware lurking on their systems. Visit www.yezee.com and www.kucinta.com.
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