There is a Storm brewing, as McAfee warns botnet may make a comeback
Rosie Khdir relays McAfee’s warning of the Storm botnet and how this old malware is being reinvented in various different forms to strike unsuspecting Web users.
Compare photo editing software
The three most popular photo editing software: Corel Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 and Serif PhotoPlus X3.
HP buys smartphone maker Palm in surprise deal worth $1.2 billion
Tomas Mowlam reports: Californian computer giant HP has entered smartphone arena by announcing the $1.2 billion purchase of troubled smartphone company Palm
MessageLabs reveals biggets botnets
Symantec’s messaging security division, MessageLabs has revealed the biggest botnets currently sending spam. The botnet known as ‘Rustock’, with between 1.6 and 2.4 million bots, pushes out 43 billion spam messages a day or 32.8 per cent of all spam, with most infected machines in India, USA and Brazil A botnet is a virus which [...]
Linux: surprising share of spam
MessageLab’s, Symatec’s messaging security division, has revealed that Linux based computers are sending a disproportionately large amount of spam. Machines running the open source OS were apparently responsible for sending 5.14 per cent of spam between November 2009 – March 2010, despite only making up 1.04 per cent of the OS market. Windows machines, which [...]
Free CS5 online resource centre launched
Peachpit, a design and media publisher, has launched a free online resource centre to allow readers to get the most out of Adobe’s new CS5 package. The company has also released new books and videos. Professional Portrait Retouching with Adobe Photoshop CS5, by Scott Kelby; The Zen of Illustrator, by Sharon Steuer; and Animation with [...]
Android 2.2 phones to support flash
Andy Rubin, VP for engineering at Google, has been quoted in the New York Times saying that the next version of Android will support Adobe Flash. After Apple’s well publicised falling out with Adobe over Flash it’s no surprise that Smartphone rival Android has declared support for Flash. Android version 2.2 is codenamed Froyo, for [...]
Report names Dell as top healthcare and education IT services provider
Tomas Mowlam writes: Dell has been named as the worldwide top supplier for IT services to healthcare industry and second for the education market.
A PC Site comparison: Green laptops
These days in the world of computing, green is the buzz word on every manufacturers specs. Rosie Khdir looks at three laptops that boast their high green credentials and tries to find the greenest machine on the market.
This picture says a thousand words about PC Site
When people ask us what our site is all about is often hard to find the exact words to describe just how wonderful it is. Rosie Khdir has found the ultimate way of expressing PC Site, though the power of words and images combined.
