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iPhone Security

iPhone Security

I like opening with that subject – because it’s two words that Apple seems to never want to see next to each other. On Slashdot today, an article covered my friends from F-Secure discussing the barriers that are precluding the antivirus industry from making inroads in protecting iPhones from malware. Indeed, they are correct, you cannot build A/V into the iPhone platform – the API is explicitly designed to forbid that. However, I have to counterpoint. I mentioned in a…

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Preying on ignorance

Preying on ignorance

I’ve been spending a bit of time looking into something that has bothered me for awhile. I refer to it as “Predatory Utility Software”, or “PUS”. On Christmas day, I received two pieces of spam. These were admirable because they were able to defeat SpamSieve (my favorite software purchase of 2008). They were frustrating because they offered a piece of… software called “Error Nuker”. For years, I’ve been telling people that so-called “registry cleaners” don’t do anything, and in fact…

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