Posts by sparky66

New Mac scareware variant installs without password

Free from malware?

Really? I don't think anyone ever thought Macs would be free from malware . After all, RealPlayer ran on Macs.

Correct

You still have to confirm you want to install it, it just no longer requires a password. I can see my daughter panicking after clicking on a bad Bieber image and following the instructions out of fear she's going to get in trouble for wrecking the computer. The password part would have stopped her.

Google: 'We did not follow Apple into phone market'

Riiigghht...

There were touch screen smart phones before the iPhone. The innovation was to make it useful by creating a whole new interface, having a decent browser and in the U.S. making AT&T offer a flat fee for internet/data access so that people would actually use it.

Bing zings, but for how long?

@Anonymous coward

Well, apparently BING! has already been improved, or learns quickly. When I tried to use it right after it came out, "XP SP3" did not take you to anything relevant on the entire first page, let alone the second result. I would have been satisfied with the search result I just got when I repeated it today after seeing your post. I still would have preferred just the download page, but I can live with a page with links to the download. That first search was just so spectacularly bad I hadn't gone back.

Bing! Not!

I tried BING!, I wanted to like it, but it's the same old faulty search as Live Search. All I wanted was the download location for "XP SP3". BING! gave some Microsoft pages, none relevant. Google took me right there on the first result. How can they still not correctly find things on their own servers? It's been this way forever. Maybe it learns over time, but I doubt I'll check back.