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New Mac Virus Discovered by Sophos

Early this week, security firm Sophos discovered a new Trojan Horse virus which they are calling OSX/RSPlug-F. They even have a video of the virus in action! The virus’ method seems to be a variation of the malware DNSChanger which was detected some time ago. As indicated by the blog entry, the virus is activated […]

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News

OnLive Gaming Service Announced, Will Be Mac and Windows-Compatible

Over at the Game Developers Conference, the OnLive broadband gaming service was announced. The effort, developed over seven years, focuses on offering a variety of game choices to subscribers by handling the each game’s video and audio on remote servers and streaming the results to players. According to Gamasutra, the service is stated to be […]

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Software Time Capsule

Users Reporting Dropped Internet Connections During Time Capsule Backups

In the category of “it should be working perfectly forever but isn’t”, a number of users have reported that their Time Capsule units are dropping Internet connections during the backup process. According to MacFixIt, the AirPort Utility does not see the Time Capsule during the dropped out period. Even so, the backup continues and completes […]

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MacBook Pro Software

Apple Releases 17″ Unibody MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware 1.0 Update

Late Wednesday, Apple released its Graphics Firmware 1.0 update for its 17″ unibody MacBook Pro notebook. The update, a 770 kilobyte download, addresses the appearance of vertical lines or distorted graphics on the notebook display. Like other patches, the update can also be located and downloaded via Mac OS X’s built-in Software Update feature. If […]