Technologizer

Art, Game or Trojan? Don’t Be the Judge!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The folks at Symantec have looked right past the artistic intent behind Lose/Lose, a computer game that deletes your files every time you shoot an alien, because they’ve just classified the game as a Mac Trojan. Lose/Lose is described by its creator as “a game with real life consequences.” It’s a standard space shooter in the [...]

New Norton 360 Arrives as a Beta (and How’s Norton Treating You Lately?)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Last month, Symantec released Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton Antivirus 2010, updated versions of its venerable Windows security packages. They incorporated a new approach to threat detection–Symantec calls it Quorum–which attempts to increase accuracy and reduce resource-hogging tendencies by gauging the reputation of files based on data collected from the millions of folks who [...]

Twitter, It’s Time to Fix Short URLs Once and For All

Friday, September 25, 2009

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It’s not a gross exaggeration to say that without short URLs from services such as Bit.ly and TinyURL, Twitter might not have become the sensation that it is. They enable the sharing of interesting links and photos and generally let the service transcend its 140-character limit. But they also bring some major gotchas, such as [...]

Symantec’s New Mac Security Suite: A Different Side of Norton

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Last week, I published the results of a little survey about Mac security that showed that the respondents, at least, are a pretty blasé bunch compared to their Windows-using friends. With the exception of firewall software–which comes built into OS X–the vast majority of survey respondents said they’re not running security software on their Macs, [...]

Please, PC Makers: Don’t Screw Up Windows 7

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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For the past eleven days or so, I’ve spent a meaningful amount of my computing day in Windows 7. It’s very much a rough draft of the operating system that will eventually ship: It’s missing major features and a meaningful percentage of the apps I’ve tried to use wouldn’t even install. Even so, I’ve been [...]

The iPod Nano is Hot, Hot, Hot!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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It’s been months since I’ve seen a good story about the battery inside a gadget spontaneously bursting into flames. So today’s news of Nanos overheating (again!) manages to make the top of the T-List.