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Thoughts about Mac malware or more aptly The rise of UNIX malware.

By Jed | Published: June 1, 2011

Just had a case of a Mac Fake AV called “MacGuard”. It was a straight forward cleanup. Basically you just need to quit the MacGuard process via Activity Monitor, delete the MacGuard folder inside Applications (don’t forget to empty the Trash), disable startup for MacGuard in the user’s login preferences, and as a protection – [...]

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BackTrack 5 is here

By Jed | Published: May 13, 2011

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

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Linux Combo

By Jed | Published: December 12, 2008

Slackware for my Desktop. Zenwalk for my laptop. Nice quote from Slack book: “There are many reasons why Slackware is Linux’s oldest living distribution. It does not try to emulate Windows, it tries to be as Unix-like as possible. It does not try to cover up processes with fancy, point-and-click GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). Instead, [...]

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Why you don't need HJSplit for Linux

By Jed | Published: June 27, 2007

HJSplit is famous in the DOS/Windows world as a way to split/join large files for easy network transfer. I’m just confused why they bothered to make an HJSplit version for linux. This HJSplit for Linux even requires you to install a separate library which add to the garbage for such a useless app (for nix). [...]

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