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What are folks' favorite Mac news and tutorial sites?
MacSurfer collects news stories from all the other sites.
Daring Fireball is by far the best Mac-related blog.
For Mac news, I recommend Macsurfer.com, with headline links to other sites and stories.
Curses. Too slow, again.
Thanks, folks! I've been hitting MacSlash again recently and Macintouch is an old standby. I'll add the others.
Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—In a rare discussion about the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation.
"When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here.
Heh - is "nuking the systems from orbit" common IT usage?
Heh - is "nuking the systems from orbit" common IT usage?
IME, yes. And even more common practice.