I received another email from Western Digital yesterday, here it is: Dear WD Registered Customer, As we previously announced, Western Digital received reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to OS X Mavericks (10.9). Our investigation to date has found that for a small percentage of customers that ...
– A list of all the products and version numbers was removed. They can all be found in the PDF. – “Hardware used” and it’s pages were removed. When referring to hardware specific tests and results in the future the hardware and specs will be mentioned at that time. – Individual AV product tests were ...
Notes about the PDF update: – I was unable to update the VirusBarrier X6 results as the application keeps asking for a license. I don’t have one so this will have to wait. – Avira now detects Genieo samples as adware but apart from adding those signatures it does not detect the actually Genieo application, ...
This is a quick “on the road” post that I will further update if needed later on. A new version of the OSX/Crisis malware was found, you can read all about it here. I have obtained a copy of all the files and will include these in the updated test results I have planned for ...
[post updated to correct a typo that showed version .117 to be the current one. It should be .152. Thanks Ted for pointing this out.] In case your system has not alerted you to the fact a new version is available (Flash rarely does this even though it should), you can get the latest version ...
Western Digital sent out another update that may give us a bit more information on what’s going on, here it is: Dear WD Registered Customer, On October 30th, 2013 Western Digital informed registered customers of affected products via E-mail regarding reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to ...
As you may have heard, Adobe was kind enough to give attackers access to over 2.9 million user names, passwords and other details. No wait it’s more, 38 million. No wait, turns out the actual number is over 130 million. Since then a few things have happened: the entire list of stolen records have been ...
I received this e-mail earlier tonight and wanted to share it as Western Digital is quite popular amongst Mac users. Dear WD Registered Customer, As a valued WD customer we want to make you aware of new reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to Apple’s OS X ...
NOTE: I have moved this post in it’s entirety to a separate page set which can be found in the top menu or here. Comments have been moved to the last page of that set as well. Splitting the post up into multiple pages is easier to read for you and easier to update for ...