pmsbony - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Should have stop at, Aren't FAXes the weirdest (Score 1) 531

by pmsbony on Tuesday June 03 2008, @10:52AM (#23639323) Attached to: Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures

This has annoyed me for years. I had a discussion over what a fax actually is with a lawyer a few years back. My issue was that many firms had electronic fax systems that allowed them to send 'faxes' from within their email client. If I send an email/fax via this system to a company with a similar system I wanted to know how it was a different means of communication to an email. I could stick a jpeg of my signature in both, but one is legally binding.

New Malware Report Hits Vista's Security Image 258

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 20 2008, @04:47AM
from the cracks-in-the-armor dept.

An anonymous reader recommends a Computerworld article on a new report from Australian security vendor PC Tools. The company released figures on malware detection by its ThreatFire product, and in its user base 27% of Vista machines were compromised by at least one instance of malware. From the article: "In total, Vista suffered 121,380 instances of malware from its 190,000 user base, a rate of malware detection per system [that] is proportionally lower than that of XP, which saw 1,319,144 malware infections from a user base of 1,297,828 machines, but it indicates a problem that is worse than Microsoft has been admitting to." Microsoft hasn't responded yet to this report.