Internet Myths Putting Americans at Risk, According to G Data Security Survey

The international report found that Americans are dangerously out-of-touch with the sophistication of today’s threat landscape. When asked if they are more wary of being exposed to malware on porn sites or horseback riding sites, more than 40% of Americans said porn sites. However, in reality, hobby and amateur sites are far easier to attack than adult sites. Hobby sites are also much slower in removing malware -- and with visitors not being careful on these sites --- they pose a greater infection risk than adult sites, where visitors expect danger.

When it comes to how malware impacts computers, consumer expectations overwhelmingly haven’t kept pace with today’s stealthy threats. Nearly all Americans reported that contaminated computers would show signs of infection through slowdowns, crashes, or pop-ups. Yet, today’s malware is operated by professionals looking to surreptitiously steal sensitive information, without risking detection. The survey includes several other notable findings, including:

89% of Americans report using security software to protect their PCs, with 46% using paid software and 42.7% relying on free versions. The U.K. had the highest number of users with a security solution installed (94%), while Russia had the lowest (83%). 54% of Americans believe that most malware is spread through email, but in today’s world the biggest threat is from malicious links – spread not only via email, but also instant message, social networks, and other social channels. And yet, more than half of Americans click on links in social networks. Only 49.4% do not click on any links on social networks. No free antivirus product currently offers full-suite protection (including anti-spam, web filters, firewalls, etc), yet 82% of Americans believe that free software is as good as paid antivirus software. Among those Americans who use antivirus software, nearly 60% believe they have a full-suite of protection – however, only 46% use paid software. Because only paid software has full-suite protection, many PC users wrongly believe they are fully-protected.

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Apparently, the Nokia N900 was sold in many units and those thousands of buyers are currently waiting to download the Nokia N900 PR1.2 firmware update. Although it hasn’t been officially released by Nokia, the N900 PR1.2 update has been leaked on torrent websites by some lucky folks who got their hands on it earlier than expected. I haven’t installed the software update, and I’m going to do it because users have reported that it’s very unstable.

The RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.12-9_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM aka Nokia N900 PR1.2 firmware update comes with numerous crashes mostly in the usually awesome MicroB browser. The portrait mode bug is still there, the media widget has the “Play” button bug, the Hildon desktop stops responding, the phone appears not to charge, the alarm doesn’t go off, and even more.

I am not going to link to any torrent websites so that I won’t get in trouble, but you should google for the Nokia PR1.2 firmware update with some keywords and you’re good to go. Remember to backup and only install the update if you’re used to reflashing. Join the discussion at our forum and let us know about your N900 findings.

If ye dun even no where to find a decent torrent, you probably shudnt even think about reflashing your n900 with an UNSTABLE and UNOFFICIAL release of the “pr1.2″, simple as that. Buy a camel, repaint yer house (install mafw-gst-eq-renderer.deb and start listenin to neurofunk!), whatever feels best, and sit tight and phucking WAIT for the official release.


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