Anti Virus
ClamXav: Free Anti-Virus for Your Mac - Help Protect Your PC Friends - ...
By Todd Ogasawara
The consensus seems to be that Mac OS X does not need anti-virus software. However, I thought about anti-virus in terms of Windows running as a Guest OS as well as people running Windows XP/Vista with whom I exchange documents. So, I took a look at the free ClamXav (based on the Open Source ClamAV proejct) as an anti-virus tool.
[Publish Date: December 10, 2008]
Avast anti-virus for the Mac - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By FJ de Kermadec
After spending an entire day installing Windows updates on a friend's computer, I decided to have a bit of good geeky fun by trying out Avast anti-virus for Mac OS X. Whether Mac OS X users need anti-virus at the moment is still up in the air, but regardless of the reality of the situation, knowing our options cannot hurt....
[Publish Date: July 05, 2008]
Four short links: 28 May 2009 - O'Reilly Radar
By Nat Torkington
Viral Epidemics Poised to go Mobile -- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (author of Linked: How Everything Is Connected To Everything Else) modelled mobile phone virus epidemiology for NSF and concluded that (in accordance with experience) no single OS has critical mass for viruses to break-out. I wonder: will Android or iPhone reach that point first? (via ACM TechNews) Socrata -- formerly...
[Publish Date: May 28, 2009]
ClamXav Follow-up: Test with Live Malware - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Todd Ogasawara
I took a quick look at the free ClamXav anti-virus software for OS X last month. However, I didn't have any malware to test with it. Well, I found my archive of captive test malware and tried it out with ClamXav.
[Publish Date: January 21, 2009]
Yannis Haralambous is the founder of Atelier Fluxus Virus, a company specializing in the high-quality typesetting of books with specific requirements, such as dictionaries and critical editions.
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
Roger A. Grimes is the principal of a firm specializing in client/server networking technologies, and he has been providing professional anti-virus consulting services for nine years.
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
Tracking and Graphing Awareness of Swine Flu with Twitter - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Timothy M. O'Brien
As the Swine Flu story develops, Twitter is an invaluable, open-platform for gathering data and graphing trends of awareness. As the CDC investigation into this emerging virus uncovered more cases in CA, KS, TX, @CDCemergency experienced a rapid +85% jump in followers as Twitter became a conduit for critical public health information. While the government tries to get the word out about prevention stragies and instructions for care for the sick, services like Twist and Twitterholic can be used to measure the impact and reach of these public health messages.
[Publish Date: April 25, 2009]
Speaker: Douglas Rushkoff: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - Co-produced by ...
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and the upcoming Digital Nation. He is the host of the WFMU radio show The MediaSquat, and he will be teaching the New School University this Fall. His latest book, Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back, was just published by RandomHouse and RandomHouse Audiobooks.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Speaker: Douglas Rushkoff: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and the upcoming Digital Nation. He is the host of the WFMU radio show The MediaSquat, and he will be teaching the New School University this Fall. His latest book, Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back, was just published by RandomHouse and RandomHouse Audiobooks.
[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]
Four short links: 8 Apr 2009 - O'Reilly Radar
By Nat Torkington
Bias, RFCs, virus batteries, and a glimpse at life beyond record labels (the last item features profanity, beware): Bias We Can Believe In (Mind Hacks) -- Vaughn asks the tricky question about the current enthusiasm for Behavioural Economics in government: where are the sceptical voices? As he points out, It's perhaps no accident that almost all the articles cite a...
[Publish Date: April 08, 2009]
Our first big infection - O'Reilly Broadcast
By John Viega
At 7:30 eastern this morning, one of my brothers called to tell me that he is, "being attacked by hackers." He was about to fall prey to a common scam. He did have some bad stuff on his computer (his existing anti-virus had indeed failed him), but it was trying to get him to pay to remove itself and a bunch of phantom viruses that didn't really exist.
[Publish Date: November 24, 2008]
Feral patent threatens one hundred million computers protected by ClamAV - ...
By Andy Oram
The Trend Micro patent (5,623,600) simply suggests that virus filtering be provided in a firewall. That's all. Only a court case stands in the way of a power grab that would require all open source work on virus filtering gateways to cease.
[Publish Date: January 29, 2008]
