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Tales and thoughts from a critical Apple fanboy.

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I'm more impressed than I thought I'd be with Google+.  However their "huddle" demo is the essence of what I hate about social networking.  See below to see WHO CARES!

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Google's been struggling to actually integrate many of its lovely cloud services into Android in a usable, finger-friendly way -- often relying on ugly mobile web interfaces -- and here comes Apple with the promise to tie everything together beautifully.

Sean Hollister makes the best point in regards to iCloud vs Google cloud offerings.

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How Mac FAKEAV Payloads Work

From TrendLabs Malware Blog:

The current wave of Mac OS X FAKEAV infections follows a three-step process. To those familiar with Windows-based FAKEAV variants, the pattern in this infection chain will be quite familiar.

Displays a “scanning page” from poisoned Google searches.

Prompts the user to download a .ZIP file that contains a .PKG installer. This installer installs a downloader.

The downloader downloads another .ZIP file that contains the actual FAKEAV .APP file.

In step 2, the downloaded installer package (.PKG file) contains two notable files:

The downloader binary

A .PNG file

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Call me critical, but watch how the lower third adds a critical word to what Gartenberg ACTUALLY said.  Around 3:01.