It occurred to me that people should have a bit more confidence in the virus products that they have installed on their computers. If you have AVG installed, it will broadcast a problem, but it will identify itself as the message sender.

If you get a popup on your screen, pay attention to the title bar and make sure that the message is from you anti-virus product. Also keep in mind, that your anti-virus product will ask you what you want done with the culprit, as opposed to a general warning and attention getting antics.

According to this site:
“Bell Canada states that 5% of users were generating 60% of total traffic and 60% of that traffic was P2P traffic and Bell concludes that 95% of Bell subscribers were being negatively impacted. Provide full rationale and evidence in support of Bell Canada ’s view that 95% of its customers were being negatively affected. In addition, clarify whether Bell Canada is concluding that 95% of its customers, or 95% of all retail IS end-users (that is, including customers of independent ISPs that use GAS to provide their high-speed retail Internet services) are negatively affected. ”

The Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) has to submit their letter by June 26, 2008.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Thursday told the company it has until June 23 to make public data that was marked confidential in a May 29 filing. Bell had said it needed to keep quiet the information, which details the level of internet traffic and possible congestion on its network, for competitive reasons.

In a letter sent to Bell, CRTC director general of competition, costing and tariffs Paul Godin said the need for public disclosure outweighed the company’s competitive privacy concerns.

“Commission staff has determined, based on all the material before it, that no specific direct harm would likely result from disclosure, or that the public interest in disclosure outweighs any specific direct harm that might result from disclosure,” he wrote. (link)

The fact is, if malicious hackers bothered to take a fraction of the time they spend exploiting security flaws in Windows and devoted it to exploiting Mac OS, Apple’s security “reputation” would fly out the door.

Mac OS X is easily as vulnerable if not more vulnerable security wise as Windows XP (Vista is actually quite closed down). The difference is the point you make in your second sentence – 80% or more of home computer users are on a Windows PC.

If you made your money as a malicious hacker who would you target?