McAfee

April 21st 2010

McAfee Update Shutting Down Windows XP Computers

Confirmed: a bad McAfee update for Windows XP has shut down thousands, possibly millions, of computers around the world. That’s big trouble. UPDATED: Twitter has been buzzing with the news this afternoon that McAfee updates were shutting down XP PCs, and we’ve heard that California sent out an email to state workers a little while…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 21

April 16th 2009

Email Spam Is Destroying The Earth

You may hate spam because it clutters up your email, wastes your time and teases you with talk of Nigerian princes offering to enlarge your penis. But did you know it’s killing the environment, too? According to a recent study by computer security firm McAfee, the amount of spam emails sent last year (62 trillion)…

io9 Graeme McMillan Apr 16

November 17th 2007

Seagate Fingers Hard-Drive Poisoning Employee, Hardens Prevention Measures (Full Story)

Earlier this week, we shared breaking news about Seagate selling 1,800 Trojan-horse-infected Maxtor hard drives at retail. I checked in with the company to learn the details, and see if they busted the perp. The official word: https://gizmodo.com/seagate-accidentally-shipped-1-800-trojan-horse-tainted-322077 The internal investigation by the contract manufacturer determined that the virus was accidentally transferred by one of…

Privacy & Security Wilson Rothman Nov 17

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