So here is an unexpected side effect of the prevalence of computers in cars. It may be the first instance of a car-born computer virus. According to SC Magazine : Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones. Landcruiser 100 models LX470 and LS430 have been discovered with infected operating ...

AuditMyPC.com offers free services to scan your Windows computer and let you know just how vulnerable you are.

Check out this parody of the Mac switcher ads. Find out what happens when you switch to Linux.

I loved this article at PC World about stupid error messages. Crummy error messages have migrated from our PCs to the Web. The archetypal example: A site wants data in a certain format–say, phone numbers without parentheses or hyphens–but doesn’t say so. You enter information your way, then get a message that says something like ...

I thought this was a good article on how to get spyware and other malware off a Windows computer.

A friend and co-worker told me that a study found that a Windows XP machine that is on the internet without a firewall, and all the necessary updates will get infected within 20 minutes on average. Frankly, I did not believe it. That is incredible. But my friend did not make this up. Check out ...

Walt Mossberg wrote this article for the Wall Street Journal that promotes the Mac. He biggest argument is that security problems on Windows have seriously impacted its productivity gains. So instead of being able to view their computers as tools for productivity, research, communication and entertainment, consumers have been forced to devote rising amounts of ...

Wired News reports that “Men who regularly balance their laptop computers on their laps when working may be jeopardizing their ability to have children, according to a new study from fertility researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The potential risk comes from the heat generated by the laptop computer and ...

CNN has a screen shot of SCO’s site which was reportedly hacked recently. The new slogan on the site was changed to: We Own All Your Code pay us all your money At least they claim their site was hacked and that this is not their new marketing slogan.

An anonymous SlashDot user writes: “Maybe we should have listened to our parents and gone outside instead of playing video games. In newly published study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, heavy computer users were 74% more likely to develop visual field problems as compared baseline in a group of 10,202 randomly selected ...