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Security firm Ironport counted how long it took anti-virus firms to produce an antidote following the first appearance of a malicious program. It found that, on average, anti-virus firms took 17 hours to respond to new threats.
Ironport gathered its statistics from its monitoring system that looks at incoming and outgoing e-mail traffic for more than 100,000 organizations. Come on, guys… let’s get it together!
All us geeks use flowcharts to make important decisions. Now, as a public service, here is a flowchart that will help you buy a really cool gift for your favorite geek!
Help make this Christmas a happy one for your geek… check it out!
Remember the “Soup Nazi?” “No soup for you!” Well, Microsoft is saying to Mac users, “No IE for you!” Microsoft plans to discontinue support for its Internet Explorer browser on Mac OS X at the end of this year.
“While IE for Mac will continue to be available for another month after support ends, Microsoft is advising all users to move to ‘more recent browsing technology such as Apple’s Safari.’ The lack of support for IE is unlikely to be an issue for Apple users, most of whom already use alternatives. The only potential difficulty could lie with some sites that have been designed to work with IE only.”
So, another reason not to develop sites that cater to IE only. Get wit’ the program!
Ya take ’em where you can get ’em! Firefox has won a small victory against the Evil Empire (Microsoft.) Even if it is just an icon!
Microsoft to use Firefox RSS Icon!
Maybe this is the start of bigger wins to come? We can only hope!