Slashback: KDE, Tsunami Hacker, and Image Bugs

We Slashback, to provide updates to three recent stories. All happy news, for once. JoaoPinheiro writes "After last week's reports that Novell plans not to ship the KDE desktop on Novell and SUSE Enterprise products, the company got lots of feedback from its customers. Novell has listened to them and reconsidered its desktop strategy." Meanwhile, in the employment sector, sebFlyte writes "Daniel Cuthbert, recently a high-profile victim of the UK's outdated cybercrime laws, has found a job in the security industry." Finally, one less thing to worry about, as gUnit writes "eWeek is reporting that virus researchers at Trend Micro jumped the gun with a warning that a Trojan in the wild was capable of exploiting newly patched Windows security flaws. Just 24 hours after announcing the discovery of a proof-of-concept Trojan that supposedly exploits a trio of image-rendering vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft, Trend Micro is retreating from that claim and offering up a batch of excuses."

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Good news all round

[arevos]

Good news all round, it would seem. :)

Re:Trend Micro might've calculated it?

[saskboy]

"and a lot of people wont see the retraction so it may seem their ahead of the curve"

Darn tootin'! People don't need to buy Antivirus software at home, since there's AVG by grisoft.com and Clam AV for Windows.

Symantec, Trend, and McAfee are a blight on the computer security industry, and their tactics are only better than the virus writers they claim to fight because at the end of the day, they destroy fewer computers. McAfee tries hard to match destruction though.

Re:Hacker?

[mustafap]

Ah. I just read the post directly above mine. Question answered :o)