Virus, Software

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]

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]

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]

Yannis Haralambous

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: September 09, 2008]

Roger A. Grimes

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: August 15, 2008]

The wiretapping accusation against P2P and copyright filtering: evidence ...

By Andy Oram

Celebrated law expert Paul Ohm suggests that cable companies and other ISPs might be breaking the federal wiretap law by doing deep packet inspection. But the same kinds of deep inspection that Ohm decries is also used for spam and virus filtering. On the other hand, I wonder whether web mail services such as Hotmail, Yahoo! and Google would be guilty of wiretapping if they check traffic. These dilemma suggest to me that the relationship between ISPs (or mail service providers) and customers has to change, and perhaps that the wiretap statute has to adapt.

[Publish Date: May 24, 2008]

Antigenic Cartography: Fighting the Flu with Maps - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

This guest post was written by Terry Jones, former antigenic cartographer and founder of fluidinfo. At the O'Reilly ETech conference in March I gave a talk describing Antigenic Cartography, a new method being used to visualize virus evolution and to aid in the design of vaccines, in the context of influenza. My slides from the talk are online. Having...

[Publish Date: May 30, 2008]

Fun bug department: the anti-virus program that consulted the user's ...

By Andy Oram

A colleague told me an amusing story about an oddball design decision that puzzled him and three tech service representatives for days. Norton Antivirus told him his antivirus software was out of date, so he updated it. The next time he booted,...

[Publish Date: January 01, 2007]

The Difference Between IE7 and a Virus - O'Reilly XML Blog

By Kurt Cagle

What do you call a program that gets loaded in surreptitiously and without your approval, has the potential to lock down your computer so you can't get access to it, takes up significant system resources and promptly crashes upon running. Normally, I'd call it a virus, except for the last part ... viruses are usually stable (and well written) once they start. On the other hand, it's a perfect description of Internet Explorer 7.0.

[Publish Date: November 01, 2006]

Symantec says: No viruses for the Mac - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog

By Todd Ogasawara

This past Tuesday was Patch Tuesday for Windows XP users like me. There were also a bunch of anti-spyware, anti-virus, and a bunch of other stuff that had me rebooting my Windows PCs a bunch of times over the past...

[Publish Date: July 14, 2006]