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  • Viruses on Macs? Really?

    Really. Two recent outbreaks have Mac users thinking about whether they need to consider more security.

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  • Is anti-virus obsolete?

    The problem with anti-virus programs these days is that so many viruses come out every hour that anti-virus programs can hardly keep their list of virus signatures up to date. If your anti-virus program doesn’t know a virus is “bad” until hours after the virus arrived, you are still infected and it may be too […]

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  • Executives say their challenge is fighting viruses

    Before every IT Vital Systems Review, I always ask the executives what their challenges are. On a recent survey the CEO answered “fighting viruses.” That’s because it isn’t the executive’s job to fight viruses—that is the job of their IT professionals. It is the executive’s responsibility to protect the assets of the company, employees and […]

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  • How’d That Virus Get Through My Firewall? It Probably Went AROUND It!

    Have you ever had a virus infect your company IT network and someone say to you, “Wow. I don’t understand how that got through our firewall!” When that happens, there’s a good chance that someone brought the virus in from the outside by physically carrying a laptop or some form of removable media into the […]

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