NewsMalware on the Rise, Blogspot No. 1 Offender

Not surprisingly, malware infections are at an all-time high, but what's shocking is just how fast the infection rate has risen. According to antivirus vendor Sophos, the company says it detects one webpage containing malicious content every 5 seconds, a rate that represents a whopping 300 percent jump from 2007.

That breaks down to over 16,000 malicious sites each day, most of which are victims of SQL-injection attacks. One of the more common tricks entails using SQL-injection to place a dirty 1x1 pixel element on an infected page. And because many of the sites are legitimate, security vendors are having a tough time keeping up with blocking the sites.

There also exists a fair number of illegitimate sites, and Sophos claims Google-owned Blogger accounts for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts, making it an unflattering number one offender.

Responding to the report, a spokesperson for Google said "Google takes the security of our users very seriously, and we work hard to protect them from malware. Using Blogger, or any Google product, to serve or host malware is a violation of our product policies. We actively work to detect and remove sites that serve malware from our network."

How comforting.

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Features10 Lies I Told Passersby While Waiting in Line For the iPhone 3G

Let's get the obvious out the way: yes, I bought the new iPhone 3G. Max PC's ex-podcast producer Jeremy Williams and I waited outside the Stonestown Galleria mall in San Francisco for three hours this afternoon to get ahold of Steve Job's latest shiny gadget. Both of us were existing iPhone owners and have no shame about it.

The wait was about three hours long, and we had to do most of the waiting outside the mall to prevent clogging up foot traffic in front of the Apple store. Every half an hour, 10 to 15 people would be led inside to stand in another line before finally making it inside the store to make their purchase. Maybe it was because I was wearing an ironed buttoned-down shirt and carrying a laptop, but many people passing by stopped to ask me what the line was for. More than a few of them had no idea that a new iPhone had been released when I told them, which was pretty shocking for me to hear. Even my tech-phobic parents who couldn't send email if their lives depended on it knew about the iPhone; I genuinely could not imagine being so out of the tech-news loop. Then I decided to just start lying.


Click through the jump to see what I told the next ten clueless bystanders. 

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NewsMicrosoft-Yahoo Deal Champion, Carl Icahn Turns Blogger

Carl Icahn launches his blog The Icahn ReportAce corporate raider Carl Icahn - who has been vigorously pressing upon Yahoo’s board for a deal with Microsoft - has launched his blog The Icahn Report. He might use his blog to announce his course of action in the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover saga.

Although his blog doesn't currently feature anything regarding his on-going proxy battle with Yahoo, it does have fervid posts like "Corporate Democracy is a Myth" with Carl Icahn stamped all over them. Only time - and perhaps his blog - will tell whether he still favors a deal with Microsoft or is statisfied with the recent deal between Yahoo and Google.

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NewsBloggers Assemble!

Tech’s mightiest heroes (that’d be us) are looking for a few good writers to join our online ranks. Do you have what it takes to become a Maximum PC writer? Heed the call and read on for more details.

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FROM THE ARCHIVEMod Blog: A Tribute to Tributes!

You've modded everything in the house except the pets. What's a modder to do now?

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FROM THE ARCHIVEMod Blog: Dremel's EZLock System

No more hunting for that lost arbor screw you dropped while switching out a cutting wheel. Dremel's EZLock system will have you changing wheels faster than a NASCAR pit crew.

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NewsMulti-function Modding

LED fans and cold cathodes are neat and all, but if you are going for a bit of bolt-a-bling, why not go with something functional as well? How about a multi-function panel?

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FROM THE ARCHIVECES Report: Meet Mylo

Sony's new handheld device offers intriguing combo of communication services

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