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Intego VirusBarrier X6 Review (Mac Anti-Virus Software)

Shortly before the new year, Intego’s popular anti-virus offering for OS X received an update in the form of VirusBarrier X6, which builds on X5 with new features and a lower price point of £39.95 (ex. VAT) with a standard license that covers two Macs, not just one, so for instance you could protect your MacBook Pro and Mac Mini on one subscription.

If you’ve never heard of Intego’s anti-virus (after all, if Apple had their way, everyone would think that getting a virus on a Mac is impossible, although some people think Windows is Virus Proof too!) then you’ll also be interested to know that it can also detect Windows malware in addition to OS X, so if you have a boot camp partition setup, you needn’t worry about any viruses on Windows either!

I personally have never had an anti-virus on any Mac I’ve owned, so I was definitely curious to see if I had anything nasty hiding out on my hard drive that had escaped my attention – coming from years of Windows use before using OS X, it’s certainly a strange feeling not worrying about an anti-virus, but I definitely feel more secure knowing that I’m protected even though it didn’t find any malware when I left it scanning. The scan took around two hours to complete and was very thorough, which was re-assuring.

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How To Be Safe Online – Internet Security/Safety For Students

Yesterday I brought up the issue of technology giving us more than we can handle with the case of highlighting Swine Flu, but it can also have worrying implications with our safety and how susceptible we are to giving out our personal emails.

In a recent survey commissioned by ‘Get Safe Online’ it was found that internet users in full time education were far more vulnerable to online crime and security threats than any other demographic, which may be surprising as both the people in question and the general population see them as being ‘very computer literate’.

We have all got the spam emails from our friend who is stuck in Nigeria and needs £3000 to get back, and apart from the first time where we went through our phone book to find out if any of our friends were on holiday in Africa we delete them instantly. But although this may seem like the most prominent threat, and although it is so widely publicised, young people are still falling foul to the internet.

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Twitter, Welcome to the Mainstream! Just Don’t Drown!

On Monday, it was reported that LinkedIn had sccumbed to an attack as fake celebrity profiles were posted to lure unsuspecting users into handing over their personal details. The business networking site, which has over 30 million registered profiles worldwide, also came under attack in June 2008 with a similar ploy.

We’ve seen in 2009 with an unprecedented amount of news, flowing from cyberspace and nestling out of newspapers, talking about phishing, malware and all other sorts of malign Internet behaviour. First Twitter, and now LinkedIn, have been subject to attacks from hackers and cybercriminals just days into the new year, and we may well be on an upward trajectory as more and more people start using the services.

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