Macworld 2009 Roundup

By Paul | Jan 6, 2009

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I’m not a really big fan of Macintoshes but I thought I’d share with you what happened at Macworld and what is coming out this month after the announcements. So here’s the run down on Macworld Expo 2009:

17 Inch Mac Book Pro (Buy it From the Amazon Store) — “$2,799, 2.66 GHz and 4 GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive” and They have a battery exchange program for those who have bad batteries. Engadget has some really good video’s of this new Laptop. I also looked around Slashdot did a really good job on the summary of what happened at Macworld. They are claiming it will be able to run 8 hours on battery but I will wait to see what people say after they get there hands on this.
I-Life 09 (Buy the older version from Amazon 2008) — Today at Macworld, Apple showed it off. You can see the photos from Gizmodo and it looks nice. Some of the stuff this can do is Facial Recognition, also use it with Flickr and Facebook. Geotag Reversal so it can look up where you took the picture and pin point it on the map for later reference. I-life 09 will cost 79$ solo or 99$ for Family.

Facebook Virus strikes again

By Paul | Dec 4, 2008

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“Look you were filmed all naked!” read the subject header on one iteration of the virus-spreading message, which is being sent automatically from infected accounts to the “friend” list for that account. Clicking the link usually takes users to a page that looks like YouTube, and a pop-up message advises the user to download a Flash plug-in. The download contains the virus, which replicates by contacting everyone on the victim’s Facebook friend list and advancing the hoax.

[Via Boston Media]

This is a good social engineered attack, they seem to have you download a virus into your system. I Keep talking about how you need to be careful with emails. I also suggest that you do a complete Virus scan if you think you’ve been hit with this. There is only one way to prevent yourself from getting this little facebook virus and that is not to click it. Some other things to consider if you found out this was a virus is to contact the person who sent this to them so they to could do a virus scan on their system.